A blog reviewing all the available American animated cartoons of 1939, in approximately release order (or reverse order from the perspective of someone reading the blog after it is done).
Thursday, October 7, 2010
128 Little Lost Sheep
Title: Little Lost Sheep
Studio: Columbia
Date: 10/06/39
Credits: -
Series: -
Running time (of viewed version): 6:38
Synopsis: Schoolgirl sheep Genevieve essentially runs off from school with wolf, gets in over her head, and is chased down by Krazy Kat, tho she saves herself.
Comments: Starts with an establishing zoom (could be clipped) I think the shepherd/teacher Little Bo Peep is also a non-human animal, tho not a sheep (possibly with an almost Katherine Hepburn voice, but more southern). I suppose she's a sheepdog. The classroom is racially integrated. The wolf has a dog chauffeur. And an uncanny valley human mask. And finally a ramskin. Would that have been a condom reference at the time? Krazy doesn't show up until almost three minutes into the cartoon. And he's a noir detective who quickly pulls a gun, in spite of his Sherlock Holmes hat. Krazy has two non sentient bloodhounds (they even look like Pluto; apparently that branch of cartoon dog-dom is severely limited). Both the wolf and the bloodhounds have long thin noses. The blackboard says 2-2=4...
At least three of the following images of drawings came from Howard Lowery's site. The first two images are not, as they're my own scans of drawings I own, but I did get them from Howard Lowery.
You can see the cartoon at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKsyFaFUVVA
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