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.
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ReplyDeleteCould I ask where you were able to find such high quality versions of these cartoons? Everything I've been able to find from this era has been about the size of a postage stamp resolution-wise, and your posts capture an incredible fidelity I have not seen elsewhere.
Sincerely,
An Amateur
They're from Thunderbean prints. Steve Stanchfield (the guy that runs Thunderbean) has posted some (including this one) in his Cartoon Reaserch posts (here for this one: https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/van-beurens-red-riding-hood-1929/).
DeleteHello, Am. Mejo is correct. Steve Stanchfield posted a version of this from his collection on-line. It's still a fairly scratchy print.
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