There’s the scene where grandma pours some “jazz tonic” all over herself to become a black-bottom-dancing flapper who runs off with the wolf to get married. Red puts a stop to it by telling the wolf’s wife, who interrupts the ceremony by marching into the church with a phalanx of kids—all armed with rolling pins.
In the final scene, the stood-up grandma starts crying. The Red cries. Then the preacher cries. But suddenly, they all stop and happily sing “And that is the story of Little Red Riding Hood.” Being a Van Beuren cartoon, it ends with the three characters’ heads zooming toward the theatre audience.
As a bonus, we get Minnie Mouse as Red. Or, as Disney’s lawyers would say, too close of a reasonable facsimile of her (in the Van Beuren cartoon, she has a really bad falsetto).
Harry Bailey and John Foster are responsible for this cartoon.
The opening with Red skipping merrily thru the forest and 'tra la la'ing is probably the greatest thing piece of animation I've ever seen in a Van Beuren cartoon.
ReplyDeleteIn that really bad falsetto.
DeleteAnd they re-use part of it.
I like how she flips the basket of fruit and it almost floats up and down. They hadn't quite got the timing down yet.
Did Herman Cohen and Manny Gould worked at Hanna-Barbera in the 1960s?
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