This was one of my favorites as a kid. It all came back to me as I watched this again. The one thing I always remembered from it was all the Clark Gables poking out of The House of Seven Gables. I used to think that was so funny.
I'm surprised that children in this new millennium has seen these kinds of cartoons before. I thought kids in the '80s and '90s would be the last generation to have watched classic cartoons via video tapes.
Its like I'm 4 years old again 🙂 This episode was so incredibly witty, fun, innovative, and very ahead of its time! The way they bring those book titles to life in such an inventive and creative way.. bravo! I absolutely love the swing-for-sale part. The Frankenstein/Fu-Man-Chu part always scared me though!
The town crier was an based on Alexander Woollcott. When the short was re-released after his death, his scenes were cut. But was eventually restored for the Golden Collection DVD set. Albeit with the Blue Ribbon re-release version.
The very first Blue Ribbon prints actually still had the Woollcott caricature scenes intact, but after a fracas with his estate, they were deleted (along with Rip Van Winkle sleeping on the silenced cuckoo clock) from subsequent prints.
The featured books include the following: The Town Crier Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Fu Man Chu The Phantom of the Opera Frankenstein The Good Earth The Invisible Man Topper The Thirty-Nine Steps So Big Green Pastures Heidi The Thin Man White House Cook Book Great Works of Art Little Women Little Men Old King Cole The House of Seven Gables Bulldog Drummond The Life of Louis Pasteur Seventh Heaven Mutiny on the Bounty Rip Van Winkle The Valiant Little Tailor Uncle Tom's Cabin Castles The Three Musketeers Drums Along the Mohawk Book of Etiquette Henry the Eighth Mother India Diamond Jim Oliver Twist So Red the Nose The Pied Piper Three Men on a Horse Seven Keys to Baldpate Prisoner of Zenda Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp The Informer Little Boy Blew Charge of the Light Brigade Robinson Crusoe All Quiet on the Western Front Under Two Flags Hurricane Gone with the Wind
They did modify the book titles slightly on a couple: The original is "So Red the Rose" by Stark Young. (the switch to nose is to match the W.C. Fields character) and it was originally "Little Boy Blue" for the nursery rhyme.
I remember watching this before learning English back in the early 2000s, I didn’t understand a word back then, rewatching this brings back so many memories about this
This gives me such good memories from my childhood, my dad had tons of dvds worth of looney tunes so I got to all the classics and this was always my favorite.
I swear i remember a book with a big nose guy jumpscare, that scared the hell out of me as a kid, but i cant find it!!! You guys can help me? (Im not crazy hahaha)
I remember seeing this cartoon on a public domain Porky Pig VHS I had when I was a little kid. Unfortunately the last part which shows the cuckoo clock bird muzzled by Rip Van Winkle is cut.
Yes -- also deleted was Alexander Woollcott's caricature as the town crier; his estate (he passed away in 1943) complained about it shortly after the cartoon's 1947 reissue.
I have a bunch of merrie melodies and looney toons dvds, but theyve been through so many car rides in the portable dvd player and hapzadard cartoon binges that theyre scratched beyond watchability. With that and the lack of any dvd compatable devices these days, uploads like this are the only way i can watch these old cartoons and confirm they werent fever dreams or something
I'm surprised this video allows Comments seeing as how they turned off all the comments on mostly all the looney tunes videos on UA-cam. For whatever stupid reason
I remember watching this as a kid. But I only remember the opening part with Mr. Hyde, Fu Manchu, the Phantom, and Frankenstein. I never realized that they danced afterwards.
Warner Brothers underwrote and distributed cartoons primarily to promote the songs in their music library and featured in their live action musicals. And they usually wanted the song titles to be the names of the cartoons. Both Have You Got Any Castles? and Old King Cole are Richard Whiting-Johnny Mercer songs from the 1937 film Varsity Show. Once the songs were placed and the title shown Warners didn't much care what else happened in the cartoon. So, stuck with the title Have You Got Any Castles?, Tashlin had the Three Musketeers enter the film from a castle and let it go at that.
I had the Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volume 2 and this was on it, along with I Love To Singa, Book Revue, Baby Bottleneck and What's Opera Doc I had the true collection
I never realized that the 'Have You Got Any Castles' Song from 5:00 to 5:40 was actually based around an actual song released the year prior. The lyrics and sound effects follow the flow of the actual song.
A crazy fun fact, a lot of the books titles are based on real books, fairy tales, and even nursery rhymes Edit: those scenes made me laugh a lot 5:175:59 god this brings back good nostalgic memories when I watched it when I was a kid.
Looking back at these cartoons I've realized a lot of things. 1. Classic cartoons are more imaginative and intellectual, the music composed and the clever jokes are what make these toons timeless. 2. While I understand in the past you could get away with a lot more like how black men and women are portrayed and it might offend a lot of people in this new generation, but to be perfectly frank I never thought anything bad about how White, Black, Mexican, Asian, etc. are portrayed because even as a kid I understood it was a joke and it never occurred to me to take offense at a cartoon which I genuinely enjoyed because it was funny and entertaining. People can't take a silly joke anymore unless it's making fun of the comedian or roasting somebody else, it doesn't matter if the joke is Racist, Sexual, or Sexist as long as your not the butt of the joke your ego is fine. 3.The music is lit. 🔥 4. Again, these cartoons had much more meaning behind them. Cartoons now a days try too hard to build a complex character arc story and background and all that crap, while it's not a bad thing to build a world around you sometimes it's good to just dive in and tell a story unrelated to the story before, also lets face it the only reason why new cartoons now have this complex build up is to sell the franchise. Even in kid cartoons were you try to fit in a lesson you honestly have to baby talk a kid to remember how to breathe while drooling brain dead on an Ipad. 5. I just wanna watch a damn cartoon to distract me from the world for 5 freaking minutes, I don't care what gender the character is, their sexuality, beliefs, name? I don't care! You don't even need the best voice acting cast in the world the tell a story just look at Tom & Jerry! Show me what's happening, if I wanted a whole dialogue I would have read the back cover of a book summary then there would be no point in reading the book. (I did not expect to vent so much about this but for what it's worth I hope some of us feel the same way. It's not that I hate the new things going on it's just that I miss the simple times is all. I'm only 20 years old and yet my mind feels like I've seen generations skip by.)
in response to your second point-- consider that maybe it never occurred to you why these things are bad because you never took the time to learn and think about their impacts with an open mind
Yeah I still don't understand why some people might have problems with how blacks are portrayed in animation. It's like it's a sin if their lips are lighter than the rest of their body. And if it that's not the problem then perhaps some people should watch other animations with no blacks in it I guess.
Eu assisti esse quando eu era criança, que nostalgia😢❤ Mas lembro que era bem mais longo com mais episódios, alguém me ajuda a encontrar a versão completa com mais desenhos incluso nesse ?! Por favor❤😢
The Merrie Melodies at this point were mostly one-shot shorts. Exemptions existed, of course, but if you wanted to Porky, for example, at the time, the Looney Tunes shorts would have been your best bet. This was released in 1938, after all.
They couldn't say Drummond because it might be a copyright issue. There was a cartoon that featured a telegram that said Western onion instead of Western Union. In one cartoon Swing shift Cinderella at the conclusion of the cartoon , Cinderella got on a bus full wolves that said Lockweed instead of Lockheed.
Spare me any complaints about supposed Black stereotypes in this cartoon. Most of the Black characters (who used to be cut out when this cartoon was shown on TV) are caricatures of famous performers, and depicted no worse than Greta Garbo and Clark Gable, who were the top white film stars of the time. Certainly Uncle Tom doesn't behave stereotypically passive when Rip Van Winkle messes with him, and nobody can blame him for his reaction.
@@arielruh7773 I actually don't know why, but the animation features made me uncomfortable when I was younger. But I think those 4 you mentioned might have scared me haha.
An absolute brilliant cartoon, but should have won an Oscar. It brings to life, the literary classics for children and adults to enjoy. Modern cartoons are something to laugh at these days, because of their pathetic content and quality.
@@ClassicTVMan1981X That was what Stevenson said when someone wrote him, and asked. But he also said he did hope people would not argue about it. Probably thinking of his American fans, where it is pronounced ‘Jeck-ull’, as in the resort of Jekyll Island, down south.
The cartoon ended at that point in the 1947 re-release to remove the ending scene of Alexander Woollcott's "Town Crier" caricature (also in the original ending scene was Rip Van Winkle sleeping on the muzzled cuckoo clock).
This was one of my favorites as a kid. It all came back to me as I watched this again. The one thing I always remembered from it was all the Clark Gables poking out of The House of Seven Gables. I used to think that was so funny.
i used to be scared of that!
The thin man that came out of a thin man book is of course based off William Powell's portrayal of the thin Man in the movies
fu man chu so racist
@@Mary-xc9dhthe thin man used to give me nightmares lmao
@@saradomin89898 Not Scared you nah
I just watched this with my mother who is 96. She loved it. I loved these Merrie Melodies cartoons. Always will.
2:24 Love this Cab Calloway bit
Shit just went from singing happily to complete anarchy in a matter of seconds
It's not "anarchy"; I believe you mean 'chaos'.
Imma 2003 kid and these been part of my childhood 🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭💯💯💯💯💯💯💯 nostalgia
Same.
2007 for me 😂❤
2002 for me 🥺😭
Yup definitely 2005 6 7
I'm surprised that children in this new millennium has seen these kinds of cartoons before.
I thought kids in the '80s and '90s would be the last generation to have watched classic cartoons via video tapes.
This was my son's favourite episode, and that's what got him into reading books. 📖
Its like I'm 4 years old again 🙂
This episode was so incredibly witty, fun, innovative, and very ahead of its time! The way they bring those book titles to life in such an inventive and creative way.. bravo! I absolutely love the swing-for-sale part. The Frankenstein/Fu-Man-Chu part always scared me though!
The town crier was an based on Alexander Woollcott. When the short was re-released after his death, his scenes were cut. But was eventually restored for the Golden Collection DVD set. Albeit with the Blue Ribbon re-release version.
The very first Blue Ribbon prints actually still had the Woollcott caricature scenes intact, but after a fracas with his estate, they were deleted (along with Rip Van Winkle sleeping on the silenced cuckoo clock) from subsequent prints.
You can see marks on the film telling the editors when to cut to get rid of the Town Crier scenes.
No wonder I don't remember seeing his scenes from when I was a kid. Are school had this episode on a VHS tape
Woollcott's CBS radio program was called The Town Crier. It ran from 1933 to 1938.
I wasn't even around when this came out but I had the the dvds I used to watch every day so this is one of the ones I remember a lot.
The featured books include the following:
The Town Crier
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Fu Man Chu
The Phantom of the Opera
Frankenstein
The Good Earth
The Invisible Man
Topper
The Thirty-Nine Steps
So Big
Green Pastures
Heidi
The Thin Man
White House Cook Book
Great Works of Art
Little Women
Little Men
Old King Cole
The House of Seven Gables
Bulldog Drummond
The Life of Louis Pasteur
Seventh Heaven
Mutiny on the Bounty
Rip Van Winkle
The Valiant Little Tailor
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Castles
The Three Musketeers
Drums Along the Mohawk
Book of Etiquette
Henry the Eighth
Mother India
Diamond Jim
Oliver Twist
So Red the Nose
The Pied Piper
Three Men on a Horse
Seven Keys to Baldpate
Prisoner of Zenda
Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp
The Informer
Little Boy Blew
Charge of the Light Brigade
Robinson Crusoe
All Quiet on the Western Front
Under Two Flags
Hurricane
Gone with the Wind
So many books that I didn’t know were a thing until watching this
They did modify the book titles slightly on a couple: The original is "So Red the Rose" by Stark Young. (the switch to nose is to match the W.C. Fields character) and it was originally "Little Boy Blue" for the nursery rhyme.
I remember watching this before learning English back in the early 2000s, I didn’t understand a word back then, rewatching this brings back so many memories about this
This gives me such good memories from my childhood, my dad had tons of dvds worth of looney tunes so I got to all the classics and this was always my favorite.
Found this gem from my childhood and looking back there’s so much happening
4:35 First time, success
5:15 Second time, fail
1:10 used to scare the crap out of me
My favorite part! I still think of it off and on
That's my favorite part.
I swear i remember a book with a big nose guy jumpscare, that scared the hell out of me as a kid, but i cant find it!!! You guys can help me? (Im not crazy hahaha)
I was looking for this cartoon for that scene in particular
Not gonna lie. That music when these four dance, just hits so good! This animation doesn't look like in the 30s.
The Old King Cole parts were my favorite.
Lots of nostalgia with this one
I remember seeing this cartoon on a public domain Porky Pig VHS I had when I was a little kid. Unfortunately the last part which shows the cuckoo clock bird muzzled by Rip Van Winkle is cut.
That's insane! Me too! Did we have the same tape? Lol
I had that tape too. The town crier was cut in mine.
Yes -- also deleted was Alexander Woollcott's caricature as the town crier; his estate (he passed away in 1943) complained about it shortly after the cartoon's 1947 reissue.
@@ClassicTVMan1981X he died in 1943.
@@Gostwriterindisguise Right, I meant his estate complained about it.
5:19 I lost it when he cut half of his beard off
I loved this as a kid
wow i love that i got to see this! this was in the depths of my memory and brings me back to when i was a kid . so nice
85 Years Later, STILL TIMELESS 😮😮😮
I have a bunch of merrie melodies and looney toons dvds, but theyve been through so many car rides in the portable dvd player and hapzadard cartoon binges that theyre scratched beyond watchability. With that and the lack of any dvd compatable devices these days, uploads like this are the only way i can watch these old cartoons and confirm they werent fever dreams or something
I watch this every year
I'm surprised this video allows Comments seeing as how they turned off all the comments on mostly all the looney tunes videos on UA-cam. For whatever stupid reason
bcuz UA-cam only thinks only kids watch Looney Tunes I mean adults watch it too like myself 😉
These shorts were originally meant for adults anyway.
@@stephenholloway6893 Practically all of Looney Tunes cartoons were targeted towards adults
Apparently they did that with ALL the kids shows on UA-cam which is completely stupid.
@@bdu7281 Completely stupid and some people believe if it's animated it's fr kids despite having 12 or 15 age rating
I remember watching this as a kid.
But I only remember the opening part with Mr. Hyde, Fu Manchu, the Phantom, and Frankenstein.
I never realized that they danced afterwards.
1:09 This Scene Scared The Crap Out Of Me When I Was A Kid Until They Started Dancing
Warner Brothers underwrote and distributed cartoons primarily to promote the songs in their music library and featured in their live action musicals. And they usually wanted the song titles to be the names of the cartoons. Both Have You Got Any Castles? and Old King Cole are Richard Whiting-Johnny Mercer songs from the 1937 film Varsity Show. Once the songs were placed and the title shown Warners didn't much care what else happened in the cartoon. So, stuck with the title Have You Got Any Castles?, Tashlin had the Three Musketeers enter the film from a castle and let it go at that.
4:06 - Old King Cole am a merry old soul! 😊
4:13 - Old King Cole! I'm a merry old soul! 😊
4:48 - I went down in history! 😊
While filled with stereotypes, this is still a incredibly fun cartoon.
Use to love this cartoon
I had the Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volume 2 and this was on it, along with I Love To Singa, Book Revue, Baby Bottleneck and What's Opera Doc
I had the true collection
I HAVE THE SAME ONE !
By far one of the best "book/brochure covers come to life" shorts. Beaten only by Book Revue by Bob Clampett. But you can't really beat Book Revue.
I agree but far as Frank Tashlin's trilogy of books comes to life, this was his best of the 3.
@@stephenholloway6893 ye
Only few episodes can. This had to have come before Book Revue. And what a great setup to it, too!
@onlyone23km In fact it did this short was released on June 25th, 1938. Book Revue was released on January 5th, 1946.
@@stephenholloway6893 so in a way, Book Revue was the sequel.
Damn I remeber this back when I watching them with my grandpa. Fuck I love these memories.
The Amount Of Books In This One Cartoon. I Wrote A Bunch Of Em Down
I never realized that the 'Have You Got Any Castles' Song from 5:00 to 5:40 was actually based around an actual song released the year prior. The lyrics and sound effects follow the flow of the actual song.
This always reminded me of book review with daffy duck
Same premise but different director here it's Frank Tashlin.
If there was a cartoon HOF then Cab Calloway would undoubtedly be in it
I quote this quite often. I use to have a bugs and porky VHS tape with different episodes. Brings me back
oh sweet memories..
green pastures is probably my favorite bit in this lol. it's so catchy
6:28 when you hear a party in your basement
1:09 that was frightening then juxtaposed with a funny dance.
A crazy fun fact, a lot of the books titles are based on real books, fairy tales, and even nursery rhymes
Edit: those scenes made me laugh a lot 5:17 5:59 god this brings back good nostalgic memories when I watched it when I was a kid.
I love the shootout at the end
I remember about this one too very funny
this cartoon is, as the kids would call it, chaotic.
All is well, all is well.
The best episode next to "Hollywood Steps in"
4:37 Old KingCole is a noisy old soul.
5:57 those were the good ol' days when we still gave snitches stiches.
Oh so that's what snitches gets stitches means
the pied piper part has always stuck with me.
5:15 I'll get out my scissors that cut.
5:17 5:18 5:19 5:20
I wanna see the following adapted by Tezuka Productions, drawn in Tezuka style:
The Three Musketeers
Thumbelina
The Wild Swans
The Snow Queen
Looking back at these cartoons I've realized a lot of things.
1. Classic cartoons are more imaginative and intellectual, the music composed and the clever jokes are what make these toons timeless.
2. While I understand in the past you could get away with a lot more like how black men and women are portrayed and it might offend a lot of people in this new generation, but to be perfectly frank I never thought anything bad about how White, Black, Mexican, Asian, etc. are portrayed because even as a kid I understood it was a joke and it never occurred to me to take offense at a cartoon which I genuinely enjoyed because it was funny and entertaining. People can't take a silly joke anymore unless it's making fun of the comedian or roasting somebody else, it doesn't matter if the joke is Racist, Sexual, or Sexist as long as your not the butt of the joke your ego is fine.
3.The music is lit. 🔥
4. Again, these cartoons had much more meaning behind them. Cartoons now a days try too hard to build a complex character arc story and background and all that crap, while it's not a bad thing to build a world around you sometimes it's good to just dive in and tell a story unrelated to the story before, also lets face it the only reason why new cartoons now have this complex build up is to sell the franchise. Even in kid cartoons were you try to fit in a lesson you honestly have to baby talk a kid to remember how to breathe while drooling brain dead on an Ipad.
5. I just wanna watch a damn cartoon to distract me from the world for 5 freaking minutes, I don't care what gender the character is, their sexuality, beliefs, name? I don't care! You don't even need the best voice acting cast in the world the tell a story just look at Tom & Jerry! Show me what's happening, if I wanted a whole dialogue I would have read the back cover of a book summary then there would be no point in reading the book.
(I did not expect to vent so much about this but for what it's worth I hope some of us feel the same way. It's not that I hate the new things going on it's just that I miss the simple times is all. I'm only 20 years old and yet my mind feels like I've seen generations skip by.)
in response to your second point-- consider that maybe it never occurred to you why these things are bad because you never took the time to learn and think about their impacts with an open mind
@@fa-nl9mu I have considered that actually, trust me sometimes I just wanna watch something and not think to much about it.
@@FunkyTiger_2000 do you think that's a good way to engage with media?
@@fa-nl9mu No....*hides head in a blanket* 😔
Yeah I still don't understand why some people might have problems with how blacks are portrayed in animation. It's like it's a sin if their lips are lighter than the rest of their body. And if it that's not the problem then perhaps some people should watch other animations with no blacks in it I guess.
2:18
Eu assisti esse quando eu era criança, que nostalgia😢❤
Mas lembro que era bem mais longo com mais episódios, alguém me ajuda a encontrar a versão completa com mais desenhos incluso nesse ?! Por favor❤😢
Anyone else notice that the clock at the beginning reads midnight, but the cuckoo bird only chirps ten times?
masterpiece
All is well, all is well!
It says that the town crier scenes was some unknown reasons been cut out from this short. But this one is restored.
Much better as an adult. But I still enjoyed the Mr. Christian went on a meal part all the same.
This would make an interesting streaming series.
Some of my favorite episodes in Looney Tunes history is this and Book Revue.
2:47 I love the harmony
For so long, I wondered where all the Looney Tunes characters were (I first saw this on a Looney Tunes DVD).
The Merrie Melodies at this point were mostly one-shot shorts. Exemptions existed, of course, but if you wanted to Porky, for example, at the time, the Looney Tunes shorts would have been your best bet. This was released in 1938, after all.
Childhood
3:45 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott...
Pobre Luis pasteur quién sabe qué mezclo y luego luego exploto y se fue al cielo
5:24 LMFAO XD 😂😂😂
I'm surprised Sherlock Holmes isn't in this tbh
The part where the black peoples are singing came from Clean Pastures a censored cartoon because it was considered too inappropriate for kids.
No it was censored for promoting racist views
@@krakenvisuals4360 not seen it, but the original 1930’s movie was a view of the gospel thru black eyes. People still argue about it.
4:11, 4:18, 4:42 it's "Bulldog Drummond", not "Bulldog Drummin" for the actual real tale title!
They couldn't say Drummond because it might be a copyright issue. There was a cartoon that featured a telegram that said Western onion instead of Western Union. In one cartoon Swing shift Cinderella at the conclusion of the cartoon , Cinderella got on a bus full wolves that said Lockweed instead of Lockheed.
Spare me any complaints about supposed Black stereotypes in this cartoon. Most of the Black characters (who used to be cut out when this cartoon was shown on TV) are caricatures of famous performers, and depicted no worse than Greta Garbo and Clark Gable, who were the top white film stars of the time. Certainly Uncle Tom doesn't behave stereotypically passive when Rip Van Winkle messes with him, and nobody can blame him for his reaction.
5:59
That's what I'd to the Wind if it never shuts up
Amen!
1:13-4:06-4:15-4:39-1:28-1:35
when i was kid, this episode scares me
Is it because Mr Hyde the phantom of the opera Frankenstein and fu man Chu?
@@arielruh7773 I actually don't know why, but the animation features made me uncomfortable when I was younger. But I think those 4 you mentioned might have scared me haha.
No Junk Food
2:18 - 2:55
An absolute brilliant cartoon, but should have won an Oscar.
It brings to life, the literary classics for children and adults to enjoy. Modern cartoons are something to laugh at these days, because of their pathetic content and quality.
I wonder & think what every author reacts to this cartoon from 1938
4:44
The jokes are too much 🤣🤣🤣
I was scared of the Heidi Hi lady lol Kinda still am
No Old 1938
At 1:08 it is supposed to be Jekyll not Jekyl, a typo there
Copyright, I think. Also, Jekyll's surname is correctly pronounced "jee-kul" (to rhyme with "treacle," not with "heckle" as is frequently the case).
@@ClassicTVMan1981X That was what Stevenson said when someone wrote him, and asked. But he also said he did hope people would not argue about it. Probably thinking of his American fans, where it is pronounced ‘Jeck-ull’, as in the resort of Jekyll Island, down south.
4:25 qué buen libro la vida de Luis pasteur mezclo ácido cítrico con con ácido cítrico y explotó y se fue al cielo
This make me laugh Help help jailbreak help and the musketeers punch the human 5:56
5:58 This is me!
The House of Seven Gables, great joke.
5:59
6:27 Why won't they let me sleep!?
The cartoon ended at that point in the 1947 re-release to remove the ending scene of Alexander Woollcott's "Town Crier" caricature (also in the original ending scene was Rip Van Winkle sleeping on the muzzled cuckoo clock).
😭
What does the character with the German Empire Flag suppose to be e.g. at 1:44 and 1:46?
From the Warner Bros . Cartoon" Blue Ribbon" title cards I take it this is a 1940s re release originally 1938 short?
Re-released February 1, 1947. Originally released June 25, 1938 with the yellow sunburst opening and closing titles.
4:11 4:18 4:42 DROP DAT BEAT
goes so hard
1:27 Song Please?
Do anyone know what the 3 musketeers were saying? 5:00
I’m 1000th like YAY! 👍
5:17 Uncle Tom: Oh no you don't! Not this time.