There’s parody. There are characters talking to the off-screen narrator. There’s a radio/pop culture reference (the bad guy emulates the Mad Russian and says “How DO you DO!?”). There’s a KFWB (Warner Bros.) announcer; at least I swear the narrator is Jack Lescoulie. And there’s “real life” intruding in the action on screen.
Here’s a scene of a bad guy chasing the girl. Suddenly, the “film” breaks and has to be stitched back together by the narrator before the cartoon can continue.
Whoever did the layouts had a bit of fun, as there are all kinds of angles and shadows to mimic feature films.
Danny Webb supplies some voices. Mel Blanc does not, as best as I can tell.
I have an off-topic query about a cartoon I saw in the 1960s. It concerns a street sweeper who is continually confounded by the parades which leave much waste matter for him to remove. The man tries to take a complaint to the local bureaucrats, but without success. He recites his problem the same way every time that he is "kicked" upstairs to another bureaucrat He blames the mess on, "...the Army, the Navy, and the (word I cannot pick up) de sanitary!"
ReplyDeleteDoes this sound familiar? I don't know which studio produced this.
Thank you for your time. I read and enjoy Tralfaz daily.
Yes, it's the Paramount Modern Madcap, La Petite Parade (1959).
Delete"La da da da...Ar-mee! La da da da...Nay-vee! La da da da...Le Ministre du Sanitaire! PLOP! Fil-thee! Dees-gus-teeng!"
DeleteThank You! This ends an embarrassing number of decades wondering about this title. Thank you so *very* much!
ReplyDeleteWas this before or after "Goonland" (1938)? Of course that Popeye cartoon used a safety pin to put the film back together.
ReplyDeleteThis was released Jan. 13, 1939, so it would have been afterward.
DeleteHave had a sharp old 16mm print of this one for decades, love it! The thing is wildly ambitious, technically impressive, & pretty much a mess. Crazy pacing, odd character acting. Just yipes! Everything but successful... and, yes, one of my favorites!
ReplyDeleteI guess a murky version (like Devon's Terrytoons on YT) is better than nothing, but the gags would be a little better if you could see them better.
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