A TV announcer tells him: “You could spent it on a couple of nights out a week with the wife.” A champagne cork pops out, lands on a cymbal which dissolves into Finchley and his wife dancing to Dixieland music.
The scene dissolves again to a snare drum being rolled. “This seems like a lot of fun,” declares the narrator.
This is from the John Sutherland cartoon Working Dollars. The Sutherland cartoons drew their humour from juxtaposing the dialogue with the action on the screen. The drumsticks remain on the screen while the drum dissolves into Fred Finchley. The drumsticks then dissolve into an ice pack on his head. Clearly, it is not “a lot of fun.”
Sutherland co-wrote the story with former MGM director George Gordon and future Rocky and Bullwinkle producer Bill Scott.
Emery Hawkins, George Cannata and Jim Pabian are the credited animators. Ed Starr painted the backgrounds for director Carl Urbano.
Marvin Miller provides the voices of everyone except the stockbroker, who sounds familiar, but I can’t name him. The Langlois Filmusic library is heard in the background, and among the cues are “Comedy Suspense,” “School Life” and “Walking Briskly.”
The March 1956 edition of The Exchange put out by the New York Stock Exchange said previews of “Working Dollars” were held simultaneously in 19 cities on February 20, and prints were available free from Modern Talking Picture Service, Inc. It would be nice if one of those prints surfaced because the one generally found (without a time code) is pretty beat up (a better version of Sutherland’s Make Mine Freedom would be nice, too).
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