Fun Fact: Warner Bros. Made a LOT of cartoons including stuff that comes to life. Including: Have You Got Any Castles? I like mountain music Book Revue We're in the money Billboard Frolics
This is so weird, I remember watching this when I was younger and I didn't really understand it, but it left a big impact on me and I'm glad I rediscovered it lol
A few little things to note: 1. The Town Crier is a caricature of Alexander Woollcott. Scenes with him were originally edited out at the order of his estate, but were recently restored. 2. The Good Earth is saying, "Please bless Papa Leon and Uncle Ray", a reference to Producer Leon Schlesinger and business manager Ray Katz, who both worked for Warner Brothers and oversaw the animation department. 3 . The singers are caricatures of the Mills Brothers and Cab Calloway. 4. When the Thin Man walks past on the desk, the memo on the desk reads "Ask the Boss for a raise". 5. The tune that plays when the Thin Man walks past is "I'm A Nut" or "The Acorn Song". 6. The book "Bulldog Drummin" is a reference to the fictional character "Bulldog Drummond". 7. The earlier Merrie Melodies cartoons were advertising vehicles for songs in the Warner Brothers music library. These cartoon shorts helped to sell records and sheet music for songs sold under the Warner label. Most of these had no discernible plot; it was just a way to sell the song. Some of the songs that were featured in these older shorts would be used as background music in later Merrie Melodies/Looney Tunes cartoons.
+PatrickRsGhost Thanks for the trivia. I always wanted to know more about the forgotten past of these cartoons. They would have been widely known at the time of release, but since then most of the details fall into obscurity.
Hotshotter3000 I think this is what makes animation in general so great. Nowadays it's been cast off as something only children love, but back when this and other animated short films were produced and released, especially by the big movie companies (Warner Brothers, MGM, Paramount), adults were more likely to see them than the kids. In later years they were toned down for kids, but not by much. Cartoons can be seen as a form of pop culture. They always have, and always will, satirize the world and it era in which they were produced. Though they may seem stupid and silly, they really are a study in pop culture, from caricatures to parodies to other forms of tributes. I'd imagine 50 to 100 years from now, people will watch the cartoons produced within the last 20-some years, and like we tend to do today, regard them as stupid and juvenile at first, but when those people look closer, and study up on their history, they'll learn we'd satirized certain aspects of the lifestyles we faced in this time, celebrities, movies, books, and TV shows we all love. When someone in 2085 watches an episode of "The Fairly Oddparents", they might not have a clue as to what Timmy, Cosmo, or Wanda are referencing when they say or do something, but if they read up on their history as to what life was like in 2003 or so, they'll understand. When they're watching an episode of South Park and wonder about why they hated on Scientology, they can read about how everyone thought it was a crackpot cult when it aired. What's always cool is when I read about something relating to the history of the era when the cartoon was made, and then it suddenly reminds me of the cartoon. Like I could be reading a book or watching a show about how people in the U.S. and in the U.K. during the Second World War were encouraged to plant "Victory Gardens" for their own families, and I'd suddenly think back to all of the cartoons with scenes where a character planted or tended to a garden labeled "Victory Garden".
That reminds me, I need to look more closely at "The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos", another cartoon that featured a caricature of Woollcott ("Owlcott"). I can't remember if it was edited to remove him from that one or not. It's easy to see where the scenes were spliced back in on this cartoon, but the other one? I can't remember.
My daughter is watching this one for the first time and she's absolutely is loving it.. I can't believe these cartoon can get a 11 year old off the laptop and cell phone. she's like omg mom yall had the best cartoons ever! Lol..
On that note, what's always surprised me about this particular cartoon is how they let Uncle Tom get away with punching out Rip Van Winkle. THAT is very unusual. I've always wondered if this cartoon was shown censored in southern states for that reason. I'm surprised that scene was even in there at all.
I had this in my "500 of the greatest cartoons" vhs. It had tons of classics. I still whistle "All's Well" from the Gabby cartoons 28 years later. Anyone else have the vhs?
2:23 for those of you who don’t know who this man is,that is legendary Jazz singer and band leader Cabell Calloway III or “Cab Calloway” he was widely known for his “mastery of energetic and innovative scat singing”(Wikipedia;plus my own words) He was a phenomenal dancer and was even rotoscope-animated into several Betty boop cartoons and sung songs for each one respectively.He even starred in the 1980 hit comedy film “The blues brothers” Perhaps his most famous work is “Minnie the moocher” a catchy blues song about a young girl who gets entangled in a sad,and depressing life consumed by drugs and a unhappy relationship who wishes to escape. Incredibly “Minnie the Moocher was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999, and in 2019 was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress.[5] It has been argued that the record was the first jazz record to sell a million copies.[6]” (Wikipedia) IMHO he was an incredible musician and dancer.Of course,his animated character is very stereotypically /caricatured which is impolite,nevertheless him being included in this flick was surely a compliment to his work!
thank you soo much for posting this. im sad it took me this long to find it..ive been getting random memories from my childhood of this little cartoon bit...and my nostalgia nodes are overwhelmed thank you! ^_^ nothin beats childhood nostalgia! :D
I have been looking for this FOR SO LONG. I watched this several times when I was, like, four and since then I have wondered what it was called and wanted to rematch it. Finally I have found it, I am satisfied.
i am SO glad that youtube decided to randomly recommend this to me! this is what got me into animation. when i was really young, I had a dvd player instead of cable television, so i watched whatever dvds i had. i eventually got one of those sketchy “1 hour of classic classic cartoons” dvds, and i put it on for background noise. it was extremely difficult for me to sit still and give something my undivided attention for more than a few minutes, as i was (and still am) extremely hyperactive. however, when this specific cartoon came on for the first time, i remember i stopped what i was doing, and sat still directly in front of the tv. i watched it over and over. every time it ended, i rewinded it. it was like i was in a trance. i’m not sure what it was about this specific cartoon that had me enamored, but i was in absolute awe. nothing else at the time had ever made me feel that way. ever since, i have been obsessed with animation and visual story telling.
This cartoon is an effing classic! One of my childhood favorites!!! I remember watching this back when I was in Kindergarten every Friday afternoon after school along with several other episodes!!!
I had a difficult time remembering that Frankenstein's Monster was NOT supposed to be the first Terminator. Also, their Sugar Plum Fairy dance was hilarious.
Despite the racism, this cartoon always puts me in the best mood. A cozy library full of books, vivid animated imagination, and catchy music - just incredibly awesome.
FYI: Those yellow lines you see sliding back and forth across the screen at :35 and 1:05 and again at 6:35 are editor's marks indicating a fade-in / fade-out transition where the Alexander Woolcott bits were edited out for reissues (aka the "Blue Ribbon" prints like this one) after the original 1938 run of this film. The Woolcott scenes here have - obviously - been restored to this print.
Finally I've found this cartoon, I had it on vhs as a kid along with a few other old cartoons - as a four year old I had no idea about the movie stars it was parodying but now I'm older and a fan of classic cinema it's interesting to see the caricatures, here's the ones I recognise: - Various Lon chaneys as movie monsters, maybe a parody of the 'Lon Chaneys gonna get you' musical number from Hollywood review of 1929 - Greta Garbo on the cover of 'So big' - Bill Bojangles Robinson (famous for being in a bunch of Shirley Temple movies)dancing on the stairs - Cab Calloway - William Powell as Nick Charles in 'The thin man' - no idea who the 'little women' are but the 'little men' look like child actor Freddie Bartholomew - 7 Clark Gable's - Charles Laughton on the cover of 'mutiny on the bounty' - W.C fields and his red nose
One of my favorite cartoons as a child. I especially liked the Green Pastures segment. Despite what many say, I don't find it offensive. I remember rewinding or fast forwarding to that scene because of how catchy the song and dance were. Heck, the ending chase scene always had me laughing even to this day.
That’s what’s on my mind too. Obviously it uses offensive depictions, but there’s an argument to be made that nothing in the actual segment is inherently racist.
I always loved watching during the cold nights before bed especially during the holiday the town criers voice was so relaxing like listening to a storyteller at bedtime lol
Renee Lagrandeur That was because Alex Woollcott (the fat guy ringing the bell at the behinning and the end of the cartoon) didn't like the caricature of himself and asked it be removed on reissue. It's a good thing they still had those scenes so they could reinstate them on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD set.
You'll notice some lines at 0:34, 1:07, and 6:36. After Alexander Woollcott died in 1943, his caricature was edited out of future theatrical releases (those lines indicate cut marks). However, the original footage was still stored and when released on DVD, the original Woollcott footage, not having been seen in decades, was restored. The cuts were 33 seconds at the start and then after the 6 minute 36 second mark (replaced by fade-outs and fade-ins).
The very first re-releases still had the Woollcott caricatures intact, and also the Rip Van Winkle caricature sleeping on the silenced cuckoo clock, but after Woollcott's estate intervened later in 1947, was when the cuts you describe were made, and hence why this lost footage had resurfaced on the Golden Collection Volume 2 print in 2004.
Its nice to see this again, it was last shown on TV back in the early 1970's, but in an edited form that was maybe 3 & 1/2 to 4 minutes long. The 1970's were the last time alot of cartoons got shown & 90% of the WWII cartoons had been taken out of play rotation. Its great to see them in their entirity finaly. TY for posting
God I've been trying to find this for SO long I had this recorded on VHS amongst a bunch of Woody Woodpecker episodes and when this one came on I always hid under the covers because it scared the shit out of me so I never watched it fully It still kinda creeps me out tbh
I still own the DVDs with these kinds of cartoons and I remember how much my parents would watch these cartoons with me. I remember my mom and I watching this episode on the big tv in the living room when I was younger.
I miss a puppet show from Williamsburg that felt pretty old when I was surfing channels. These type of cartoons make me more happy than modern nickelodeon shows because it's pretty similar to the puppet show.
I had this as a kid on a short collection of cartoons VHS with Woody Woodpecker on the front. The cartoons were in order: 1. Pantry Panic (Woody Woodpecker) 2. Boy Meets Dog 3. Have You Got Any Castles 4. The Old Shell Game
A brillant cartoon - a celebration of all the film and music greats of the era The timing and the score are unforgettable. It's my all time fav toon. This is miles ahead of Mother Goose Goes To Hollywood that Disney did earlier. There's another toon that captures the same spirit of Hollywood but is placed in a nightclub Anyone know the name? Thank you CC!
Wow i thought i would never find this~! It was on an old vhs i had as a kid with some old cartoons on it (i too, never thought they were THAT old!) and tried to find some of them today cos somehow i still remember bits of the songs (must of played it a thousand times as a kid) and was in my head this morning sooo.... All i remember of this one was the globe thing praying, the black singers (but i only remember the song!) and oliver twist twisting.... soooo hard to find based on that! finally got it with google search of "old cartoon with book characters" (since i remembered it had oliver twist...) watching it was fun, a lot came back! But was very different to how i remembered it...and as someone else said i think i had the edited version without the town crier. Anyway lots of wasted time but i found it XD
I had that tape too! I mostly remembered the dancing monsters part lol, and probably because my grandmother happened to have those exact books, in the order, in her bookcase! :P
Do any of you remember the name of the cartoon that blue ribbon released with this? It had stories of huckleberry Finn and a bird flying as high as it could, please that'd be really helpful
Back in the day this cartoon used to be unsettling and creep me out. But now I'm in love with how many references I'm catching. Even the bgm used at the start and end were also played on the merry go round in Roller Coaster Tycoon
As this cartoon was being restored, those white lines that you see represent where the cartoon had been cut for rerelease on February 1, 1947. These cuts were made at the request of the estate of Alex Woollcott (he's the town crier you see at the beginning and near the end). Also removed from the reissue print was the Rip Van Winkle caricature finally getting rest on a silenced cuckoo clock.
Man, last time I saw this I was far too young to understand any of this. The colours are way better than they were on that VHS tape I had. Thank god for google helping me to find this again. The All Quiet On The Western Front joke had me chuckling pretty good
+Juan Jacobo Guzman When this cartoon was re-released in the 1940's, the town crier scenes were cut out at the insistence of Alexander Woolcott, who was caricatured as the town crier in this cartoon.
That was how it ended in syndication here in the U.S. as well. The edit was at the request of Alexander Woollcott himself. The opening scene with Woollcott was also removed from these airings.
This is one of my most memorable cartoons. I have this on an old vhs I got from a store called Five and Dime back in the late 80's. This will NEVER see the light of day on TV these days.
David J If you can believe it, Cartoon Network once aired this and didn't cut the racial caricatures (they did cut the Alex Woollcott scenes, but that's not their fault; they just had the reissue version).
FoolYourself Was it an edited version where Alex Woolcott's image was cut or was it a version where they cut Woolcott's image and the black caricatures? And seeing old cartoons like this on a film projector is amazing. If done right, it gives you the feel that you're watching it in the movie theater.
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When I was looking for this , I literally googled “old cartoon with book characters coming out of their books”
same!! I googled pretty much same thing 😆
I began to do the same, then I remembered the song at the end (sung by the Three Musketeers)
Fun Fact: Warner Bros. Made a LOT of cartoons including stuff that comes to life. Including:
Have You Got Any Castles?
I like mountain music
Book Revue
We're in the money
Billboard Frolics
I’ve been searching this exact this for ages 😂😂 thank God I finally found it!!
This is so weird, I remember watching this when I was younger and I didn't really understand it, but it left a big impact on me and I'm glad I rediscovered it lol
u are a horrible person with Worst times or Ass**** idiots!!!!!
@@adammcneil1313u look like my brother
I watched it too in my childhood.
Same
Same!!
A few little things to note:
1. The Town Crier is a caricature of Alexander Woollcott. Scenes with him were originally edited out at the order of his estate, but were recently restored.
2. The Good Earth is saying, "Please bless Papa Leon and Uncle Ray", a reference to Producer Leon Schlesinger and business manager Ray Katz, who both worked for Warner Brothers and oversaw the animation department.
3 . The singers are caricatures of the Mills Brothers and Cab Calloway.
4. When the Thin Man walks past on the desk, the memo on the desk reads "Ask the Boss for a raise".
5. The tune that plays when the Thin Man walks past is "I'm A Nut" or "The Acorn Song".
6. The book "Bulldog Drummin" is a reference to the fictional character "Bulldog Drummond".
7. The earlier Merrie Melodies cartoons were advertising vehicles for songs in the Warner Brothers music library. These cartoon shorts helped to sell records and sheet music for songs sold under the Warner label. Most of these had no discernible plot; it was just a way to sell the song. Some of the songs that were featured in these older shorts would be used as background music in later Merrie Melodies/Looney Tunes cartoons.
+PatrickRsGhost Thanks for the trivia. I always wanted to know more about the forgotten past of these cartoons. They would have been widely known at the time of release, but since then most of the details fall into obscurity.
Hotshotter3000
I think this is what makes animation in general so great. Nowadays it's been cast off as something only children love, but back when this and other animated short films were produced and released, especially by the big movie companies (Warner Brothers, MGM, Paramount), adults were more likely to see them than the kids. In later years they were toned down for kids, but not by much.
Cartoons can be seen as a form of pop culture. They always have, and always will, satirize the world and it era in which they were produced. Though they may seem stupid and silly, they really are a study in pop culture, from caricatures to parodies to other forms of tributes.
I'd imagine 50 to 100 years from now, people will watch the cartoons produced within the last 20-some years, and like we tend to do today, regard them as stupid and juvenile at first, but when those people look closer, and study up on their history, they'll learn we'd satirized certain aspects of the lifestyles we faced in this time, celebrities, movies, books, and TV shows we all love. When someone in 2085 watches an episode of "The Fairly Oddparents", they might not have a clue as to what Timmy, Cosmo, or Wanda are referencing when they say or do something, but if they read up on their history as to what life was like in 2003 or so, they'll understand. When they're watching an episode of South Park and wonder about why they hated on Scientology, they can read about how everyone thought it was a crackpot cult when it aired.
What's always cool is when I read about something relating to the history of the era when the cartoon was made, and then it suddenly reminds me of the cartoon. Like I could be reading a book or watching a show about how people in the U.S. and in the U.K. during the Second World War were encouraged to plant "Victory Gardens" for their own families, and I'd suddenly think back to all of the cartoons with scenes where a character planted or tended to a garden labeled "Victory Garden".
I love understanding the context of the jokes of the era. Thanks for the info.
You are correct. Mr. Woolcott asked to have his character be cut from the short when he died. He passed away in 1944.
That reminds me, I need to look more closely at "The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos", another cartoon that featured a caricature of Woollcott ("Owlcott"). I can't remember if it was edited to remove him from that one or not. It's easy to see where the scenes were spliced back in on this cartoon, but the other one? I can't remember.
My daughter is watching this one for the first time and she's absolutely is loving it.. I can't believe these cartoon can get a 11 year old off the laptop and cell phone. she's like omg mom yall had the best cartoons ever! Lol..
Can it still get her off her phone?
a bit too many racist caricatures for an 11 year old, no? I hope you clarified to her at some point, at least.
On that note, what's always surprised me about this particular cartoon is how they let Uncle Tom get away with punching out Rip Van Winkle. THAT is very unusual. I've always wondered if this cartoon was shown censored in southern states for that reason. I'm surprised that scene was even in there at all.
Rip Van Winkle was a carpetbagger, why would they care?
It looks like people understood satire.
That same scene gets me all the time. 😂
2:21 If you are wondering the song in Green Pastures, it's Cab Calloway - Swing For Sale.
I had this in my "500 of the greatest cartoons" vhs. It had tons of classics. I still whistle "All's Well" from the Gabby cartoons 28 years later. Anyone else have the vhs?
That all is well is classic especially before bed helped me sleep very good lol
2:18 Words cannot express how much I love this little guy. I want him to sit on my desk and do his little thing all day. What a funky little man
would be quite a joyful character to me if he wasn't a racial caricature
@@commanderclaus. I don't care, I love him either way. He's an icon. A myth. A legend
4:44 ... Awww, now I know why Old King Cole was so merry with his fidlers three! The King of Swing!
Interesting times back then, always liked these musical cartoons when i was a kid.
One of my childhood classics!
Same, Admit I grew up watching these as well via reruns
“You have any mortgages you wanna have paid? Baby?!” 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Such a funny part
That part with the monsters coming out was freaky at first.
2:23 for those of you who don’t know who this man is,that is legendary Jazz singer and band leader Cabell Calloway III or “Cab Calloway” he was widely known for his “mastery of energetic and innovative scat singing”(Wikipedia;plus my own words)
He was a phenomenal dancer and was even rotoscope-animated into several Betty boop cartoons and sung songs for each one respectively.He even starred in the 1980 hit comedy film “The blues brothers”
Perhaps his most famous work is “Minnie the moocher” a catchy blues song about a young girl who gets entangled in a sad,and depressing life consumed by drugs and a unhappy relationship who wishes to escape.
Incredibly “Minnie the Moocher was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999, and in 2019 was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress.[5] It has been argued that the record was the first jazz record to sell a million copies.[6]” (Wikipedia)
IMHO he was an incredible musician and dancer.Of course,his animated character is very stereotypically /caricatured which is impolite,nevertheless him being included in this flick was surely a compliment to his work!
Frank Tashlin, the man who directed this cartoon, later went on to make live-action comedies, most notably ones that starred Jerry Lewis.
Good ol’ Tish Tash
Man, I swear I remember this from my childhood.
thank you soo much for posting this. im sad it took me this long to find it..ive been getting random memories from my childhood of this little cartoon bit...and my nostalgia nodes are overwhelmed thank you! ^_^ nothin beats childhood nostalgia! :D
God! I haven't seen this cartoon since I was a kid! This sure brings back memories
I didn't get any of the references when I saw this as a kid. Now I do.
I have been looking for this FOR SO LONG. I watched this several times when I was, like, four and since then I have wondered what it was called and wanted to rematch it. Finally I have found it, I am satisfied.
i am SO glad that youtube decided to randomly recommend this to me! this is what got me into animation. when i was really young, I had a dvd player instead of cable television, so i watched whatever dvds i had. i eventually got one of those sketchy “1 hour of classic classic cartoons” dvds, and i put it on for background noise. it was extremely difficult for me to sit still and give something my undivided attention for more than a few minutes, as i was (and still am) extremely hyperactive. however, when this specific cartoon came on for the first time, i remember i stopped what i was doing, and sat still directly in front of the tv. i watched it over and over. every time it ended, i rewinded it. it was like i was in a trance. i’m not sure what it was about this specific cartoon that had me enamored, but i was in absolute awe. nothing else at the time had ever made me feel that way. ever since, i have been obsessed with animation and visual story telling.
This cartoon is an effing classic! One of my childhood favorites!!! I remember watching this back when I was in Kindergarten every Friday afternoon after school along with several other episodes!!!
It's bojangly good, yessir!
I remember watching this on my dvd's. adorable.
I had a difficult time remembering that Frankenstein's Monster was NOT supposed to be the first Terminator.
Also, their Sugar Plum Fairy dance was hilarious.
I used to have a dvd with this cartoon on it. I remember watching Snow White and Thumbelina on that dvd as well. 😍
I think I remember seeing this on boomerang years ago, back when it actually played classics.
Jon foy Did they cut the racial caricatures? And let me guess,: it was the version without Alex Woolcott.
oh fantastic famous 1938 years old from cartoon animation!!
Wowwww, all great clasic books!! Super idea they had!
Despite the racism, this cartoon always puts me in the best mood. A cozy library full of books, vivid animated imagination, and catchy music - just incredibly awesome.
FYI: Those yellow lines you see sliding back and forth across the screen at :35 and 1:05 and again at 6:35 are editor's marks indicating a fade-in / fade-out transition where the Alexander Woolcott bits were edited out for reissues (aka the "Blue Ribbon" prints like this one) after the original 1938 run of this film.
The Woolcott scenes here have - obviously - been restored to this print.
5:15 Uncle Tom punches Rip Van Wrinkle lol
That’s for cutting his hair
Finally I've found this cartoon, I had it on vhs as a kid along with a few other old cartoons - as a four year old I had no idea about the movie stars it was parodying but now I'm older and a fan of classic cinema it's interesting to see the caricatures, here's the ones I recognise:
- Various Lon chaneys as movie monsters, maybe a parody of the 'Lon Chaneys gonna get you' musical number from Hollywood review of 1929
- Greta Garbo on the cover of 'So big'
- Bill Bojangles Robinson (famous for being in a bunch of Shirley Temple movies)dancing on the stairs
- Cab Calloway
- William Powell as Nick Charles in 'The thin man'
- no idea who the 'little women' are but the 'little men' look like child actor Freddie Bartholomew
- 7 Clark Gable's
- Charles Laughton on the cover of 'mutiny on the bounty'
- W.C fields and his red nose
Dont forget Paul Muni as Louis Pasteur!
More caricatures include: Jane Withers as the little women, Edward Arnold as Diamond Jim, Victor McLaglen as The Informer
Alex Rodriguera And if I'm not wrong Freddie Bartholomew incorporated the Little Men.
Plz.
Who was the Town Crier?
One of my favorite cartoons as a child. I especially liked the Green Pastures segment. Despite what many say, I don't find it offensive. I remember rewinding or fast forwarding to that scene because of how catchy the song and dance were. Heck, the ending chase scene always had me laughing even to this day.
That’s what’s on my mind too. Obviously it uses offensive depictions, but there’s an argument to be made that nothing in the actual segment is inherently racist.
IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS GOD DAMN CARTOON FOR AGES I remember watching this on VHS when I was a TINY baby
Who said reading wasn't fun
retro junkie everybody watching this instead of reading the books lol 🤕
This is pretty cool. Thanks Patti-Cakes!!!
The tape I had always cut off everything past 6:36. I always thought that was the ending.
It basically was the end of the stupidity
If you watch this, you can tell where the film was cut.
After Alexander Woollcott died in 1943, all of his imagery and voice was deleted from the film. It wouldn't be restored until the 2000s.
I always loved watching during the cold nights before bed especially during the holiday the town criers voice was so relaxing like listening to a storyteller at bedtime lol
My second favorite cartoon of all time! Thanks for uploading this. I remember going crazy trying to find this a few months ago and now it's here.
OH GOD MY CHILDHOOD
My favorite part is Old King Cole. I just love that catchy tune.
Brilliant! Damn, I miss Cab Calloway!
The last of those dancing ladies portrayed (as part of the Harlem Renaissance) died at the age of 103 this year. Her name was Alice Barker.
Even MORE brilliant is the HEAVEN they spoofed! HALLELUJAH!
St John 3:16! 💓
i had this on a VHS as kid but was missing the beginning and end away cut to starting scene with the Frankenstein. Thanks for sharing
Renee Lagrandeur That was because Alex Woollcott (the fat guy ringing the bell at the behinning and the end of the cartoon) didn't like the caricature of himself and asked it be removed on reissue. It's a good thing they still had those scenes so they could reinstate them on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD set.
@@canaisyoung3601 Actually, it was removed after he died in 1943.
Old King Cole... was a noisy old soul.
I'll get out my scissors that cut...
👊👊👊👊👊
♫ Old King Cole, I'm a merry old soul ♫
🎵But, the, old, boy, loves, to, have, his, fling🎵
4:44, they used the term 'bling' as far back as 1938?!? Dang, the more things change, the more they stay the same!
ShadowOfTheSea "because he had his FLING (good time)."
Damn! I remember this cartoon! I think it's aged really well! Even today this is one of my favorite cartoons!
As good as this cartoon is, I have to say the songs are too catchy. These tunes have been stuck in my brain for days!
You'll notice some lines at 0:34, 1:07, and 6:36. After Alexander Woollcott died in 1943, his caricature was edited out of future theatrical releases (those lines indicate cut marks). However, the original footage was still stored and when released on DVD, the original Woollcott footage, not having been seen in decades, was restored. The cuts were 33 seconds at the start and then after the 6 minute 36 second mark (replaced by fade-outs and fade-ins).
The very first re-releases still had the Woollcott caricatures intact, and also the Rip Van Winkle caricature sleeping on the silenced cuckoo clock, but after Woollcott's estate intervened later in 1947, was when the cuts you describe were made, and hence why this lost footage had resurfaced on the Golden Collection Volume 2 print in 2004.
Its nice to see this again, it was last shown on TV back in the early 1970's, but in an edited form that was maybe 3 & 1/2 to 4 minutes long. The 1970's were the last time alot of cartoons got shown & 90% of the WWII cartoons had been taken out of play rotation. Its great to see them in their entirity finaly. TY for posting
Still neat stuff here.
Lots of Warners Cartoons I've never seen! Thanks!
Very nice Cartoon. These days no longer make cartoons like this. I salute you from Romania
3:15 The Thin Man is making me laughing
This use to scare the hell outta me
Anita Toronto how come?
Ikr
Anita Toronto I always had to fast forward my vcr at the start of it
Do you mean the WB logo?
Anita Toronto Why tho?
The quality of the work still amazes me.
6:28 Rip Van Winkle: Why won't they let me sleep?!
God I've been trying to find this for SO long
I had this recorded on VHS amongst a bunch of Woody Woodpecker episodes and when this one came on I always hid under the covers because it scared the shit out of me so I never watched it fully
It still kinda creeps me out tbh
3:06 Cab Calloway in a nut shell
Omg thankyou for posting! I had this song stuck in my head for a while
I still own the DVDs with these kinds of cartoons and I remember how much my parents would watch these cartoons with me. I remember my mom and I watching this episode on the big tv in the living room when I was younger.
What a great cartoon. I love these old cartoons. I can watch them all day. J.M.R. 2018
wow just wow this can get u hyped all night long
Bless you I've been looking for this cartoon for a long time
I miss a puppet show from Williamsburg that felt pretty old when I was surfing channels. These type of cartoons make me more happy than modern nickelodeon shows because it's pretty similar to the puppet show.
Remember seeing this bit on 50 Classics as a kid.
I had this as a kid on a short collection of cartoons VHS with Woody Woodpecker on the front. The cartoons were in order:
1. Pantry Panic (Woody Woodpecker)
2. Boy Meets Dog
3. Have You Got Any Castles
4. The Old Shell Game
i actually kinda remember having that tape. I also have a porky pig tape with this cartoon on it.
House of Seven Clark Gables. lol
I remember having the DVD of all these musical episodes. Its just such a warm feeling to watch them again ❤ if only i had my old box TV 😢❤
the part with the monsters was the best part
my mom bought the cd and me and my siblings would watch this ALL THE TIME
A brillant cartoon - a celebration of all the film and music greats of the era The timing and the score are unforgettable. It's my all time fav toon. This is miles ahead of Mother Goose Goes To Hollywood that Disney did earlier. There's another toon that captures the same spirit of Hollywood but is placed in a nightclub Anyone know the name? Thank you CC!
Phillip Pacheco Hollywood Steps Out
***** Wonder where that one is?
barber747 Hollywood Steps Out is on one of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD sets (the second one, I think).
I remember having this on VHS as a child
Wow i thought i would never find this~! It was on an old vhs i had as a kid with some old cartoons on it (i too, never thought they were THAT old!) and tried to find some of them today cos somehow i still remember bits of the songs (must of played it a thousand times as a kid) and was in my head this morning sooo.... All i remember of this one was the globe thing praying, the black singers (but i only remember the song!) and oliver twist twisting.... soooo hard to find based on that! finally got it with google search of "old cartoon with book characters" (since i remembered it had oliver twist...) watching it was fun, a lot came back! But was very different to how i remembered it...and as someone else said i think i had the edited version without the town crier. Anyway lots of wasted time but i found it XD
Your treasure hunt was worth it.
I had that tape too! I mostly remembered the dancing monsters part lol, and probably because my grandmother happened to have those exact books, in the order, in her bookcase! :P
Same! It was my grandmothers tape...so sad I never got it. But thankfully I got to watch it again, which was just fantastic!
Do any of you remember the name of the cartoon that blue ribbon released with this? It had stories of huckleberry Finn and a bird flying as high as it could, please that'd be really helpful
I had a tape with this on it. 50 funny cartoons is what it was called. I remember it being slightly different though.
"The Good Earth" also refers to "Papa Leon" and "Uncle Ray" (Schlesinger's brother-in-law, Ray Katz) at 1:54.
When I was child and after watching this I always trying to find out if my books pictures come out like this😅
When Rip Van Winkle opened the hurricane book, I thought that he was planning to go in the book to sleep.
I don't think anyone would want to sleep someplace where there's a lot of noise, unless one is tired enough.
Elizabeth Alvarado He probably is.
6:28 I’M GONNA ROCK YOU. LIKE AN HURRICANE
Well, it was when I was a kid before I could read.
Gone with the Wind
I remember watching this when my nan sent back vhs while she was out in new york.
5:28 So great! I love Charles Dickens so much!
Jesus, it's been nearly 15 years since I last saw this cartoon. Such fuzzy, wonderous memories.
I had this on a VHS of random cartoons and this was one of them. Brought back memories.
3:58 OLD KING COLE HAS A MERRY OLD SOUL
Don't you mean 4:04?
@@sonicfanboy3375 no i mean 3:58 , i put it alittle earlier so people can hear the build up following the part im referencing
Back in the day this cartoon used to be unsettling and creep me out. But now I'm in love with how many references I'm catching. Even the bgm used at the start and end were also played on the merry go round in Roller Coaster Tycoon
I have this on an old vhs tape somewhere, always like to see it once and a while.
There's also the PSA with "Have You Got Any Bonds?" with Bugs Bunny,Elmer Fudd and others using the same tune.
OMG i've been looking for this forever!!!
As this cartoon was being restored, those white lines that you see represent where the cartoon had been cut for rerelease on February 1, 1947. These cuts were made at the request of the estate of Alex Woollcott (he's the town crier you see at the beginning and near the end). Also removed from the reissue print was the Rip Van Winkle caricature finally getting rest on a silenced cuckoo clock.
Man, last time I saw this I was far too young to understand any of this. The colours are way better than they were on that VHS tape I had. Thank god for google helping me to find this again.
The All Quiet On The Western Front joke had me chuckling pretty good
face thanks for posting this episode
Cab Calloway bit was the best
This will never get old🎉
Happy Halloween 🎃
I wonder if this is where animaniacs got the idea behind their video store episode. Definitely similar enough
First time I watch this cartoon with complete ending, in Mexico was edited to finish at the Gone with the wind gag.
+Juan Jacobo Guzman When this cartoon was re-released in the 1940's, the town crier scenes were cut out at the insistence of Alexander Woolcott, who was caricatured as the town crier in this cartoon.
That was how it ended in syndication here in the U.S. as well. The edit was at the request of Alexander Woollcott himself. The opening scene with Woollcott was also removed from these airings.
Oh my god this made part of my childhood, just unlocked a memory
1:14 - 1:43 Me and the fellas on Halloween this year.
Which one is going as fu manchu?
This is one of my most memorable cartoons. I have this on an old vhs I got from a store called Five and Dime back in the late 80's. This will NEVER see the light of day on TV these days.
David J If you can believe it, Cartoon Network once aired this and didn't cut the racial caricatures (they did cut the Alex Woollcott scenes, but that's not their fault; they just had the reissue version).
This was my favorite cartoon when I was a kid...ahhh good old days
This one of the greatest !
I saw the edited version of this sometime when I was young. My dad had it on a film projector of all things.
FoolYourself Was it an edited version where Alex Woolcott's image was cut or was it a version where they cut Woolcott's image and the black caricatures?
And seeing old cartoons like this on a film projector is amazing. If done right, it gives you the feel that you're watching it in the movie theater.
Heidi is still the best moment of this whole thing. :P