Hopping Cinderella

It’s 9 o’clock. What does that mean? For Cinderella in Tex Avery’s Cinderella Meets Fella, it means her fairy godmother is late.

She gets on the phone and yells to the police to find her. The animator of the scene (Virgil Ross?) and his in-betweeners had some fun coming up with hyper drawings for her after calmly talking to police headquarters.



Mel Blanc is screaming “Go get ‘er, boys” on the phone as Cindy, though Berneice Hansell plays her in the rest of the cartoon.

You’ll notice Avery and storyman Tedd Pierce don’t waste time by having Cinderella turn the crank and call the operator. She just picks up the phone and starts talking.

The music behind the scene is Schubert’s “Erlkönig.”