Thursday, 28 November 2024

Singing Weenies

Everybody sings in the Krazy Kat cartoon Weenie Roast (1931).

The cartoon opens with Krazy and his Minnie Mouse-knockoff girl-friend happily singing “By the Sea.”



Cut to the fire on the beach. It blows on some horns and dances.



The weenies over the fire unite in song.



The sun gets in some beh-beh-beh scatting.



The fire jumps over the weenie rope.



Cut to a fish plucking Minnie’s legs like a string instrument.



This is an inventive cartoon (certainly compared with the Columbia cartoons toward the end of the decade) with Ben Harrison getting the story credit and Manny Gould the sole animation credit.

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