Title Cards of 1939 in Review

As with yesterday's post, I present to you a compilation of all the title cards, as seen on this blog (I think). These each last for a second, tho, so you can see them much more clearly than any given image in yesterday's video, wherein each image lasted for about 1/10th of a second.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzIXz4mGBZw

A quick visual review of 1939

Here for your perusal I present screen caps of all the US theatrical shorts as they have appeared on this blog. I tried to remove all the other things, but I notice that I at the very least missed clearing out the Mickey Mouse Nabisco short. Think of it as A Clockwork Orange meets animation history. It'll be real horrorshow.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzIXz4mGBZw

Pinocchio, The Comic Strip

The year began with Disney still milking Snow White's teats for all they were worth, and comes to an end with Disney starting to tap into Pinocchio's mapley goodness, from print to airwaves. The Pinocchio comic strip premiered on Christmas Eve, as seen above. The strip below is from New Year's Eve.



You can find the full series at:
http://mydelineatedlife.blogspot.com/2009/11/porters-pinocchio_7510.html
http://mydelineatedlife.blogspot.com/2009/11/porters-pinocchio_7069.html
http://mydelineatedlife.blogspot.com/2009/11/porters-pinocchio_14.html
http://mydelineatedlife.blogspot.com/2009/11/porters-pinocchio.html
It's the full movie serialized. Disney didn't seem to be so worried about giving away the store...

Pinocchio radio play , Christmas 1939

Lux Radio Theatre presents Pinocchio for Christmas. A blend of radio and a cartoon character.

http://www.archive.org/download/Lux04/Lux_39-12-25_Pinocchio.mp3

Find a bunch more 1939 radio plays of movies at
http://www.archive.org/details/Lux04

For more and different Pinocchio, listed as from 1939, but almost certainly from later, as they appear to be episodes 72 and 73 of a show, possibly centered around "Uncle Tony" but possibly all about Pinocchio, see:
http://www.archive.org/download/Singles_And_Doubles_Singles_O-S/39-xx-xxep0072Pinocchio.mp3
and
http://www.archive.org/download/Singles_And_Doubles_Singles_O-S/39-xx-xxep0073Pinocchioep2.mp3

MIckey Mouse Thanksgiving Postcard from Sunoco

Here we have Mickey in a pilgrim's hat, hunting a turkey. I'm fairly certain this is not from 1939, as the Mickey Standard Oil advertising cartoon is from 1939, unless Sunoco was a subsidiary, which I don't think it was. Happy Thanksgiving anyway.

Disney's Travel Tykes

These should be the Travel Tyke comics mentioned in the Standard Parade of 1939 yesterday. These aren't exactly high quality images, but they are superior to the other options known to be available to me in that they exist. Click on them and they will be a bit larger. Note that I over stated "pie eyed".

Disney's Standard Parade for 1939

Title: "Walt Disney's Standard Parade for 1939!
Studio: Disney
Date: 1939ish
Credits: -
Series: (Standard Parade?)
Running time (of viewed version): 7:33 without Leonard, 2:15 of the "Standard Parade for 1939" (aka without the live action).

Synopsis: Disney pimps for Standard Oil. There was a tie in for a comic insert in papers called Travel Tykes.


















Comments: Watch Walt smoke like a chimney. A Saturday Evening Post dated March 11, 1939 shows up, giving a no earlier than date; this makes me wonder if a date of January for the beginning of the Travel Tykes tie in comic is accurate. Awesome illuminated page from Argentina. There is a glazed pottery Mickey in possibly his Fun and Fancy Free outfit in front of Walt's honorary degree. 8 oscars; that should put this in after Ferdinand won and before Ugly Duckling won. Discusses the new $2 million studio being built. Dramatic Mickey and Donald dolls being swing around. For some reason the title reads "Walt Disney's Standard Parade for 1939! Copyright MCMXXXVII Walt Disney Prod. Ltd.". That's 1937. With certainly pre-1939 Donald and Mickey dolls. Perhaps there are earlier versions of this. Mickey's face is very flat looking. I would have guessed this was earlier than '39 to promote the forthcoming year, but the cover of Variety and the 8 Oscars implies that is not the case. Perhaps the animation was done earlier than the final cut of the black and white live action. Uh, there are earlier style pie eyed mice. Is this literally lifted animation from the parade of awards nominees? The Travel Tykes comics, supposedly from 1939, all seem to have a pie eyed Mickey, the animation here (tho not unlike Society Dog Show, the first '39 theatrical Mickey). Perhaps they were recycled from previous years as well? It occurs to me that Disney was trying to remake Mickey into one of the dwarfs.

Buried on Mickey Mouse In Living Color v2, disc 1, in a musical note on the bonus features page. I hate when they bury things as Easter Eggs. It's Title 27, chapter 2, if you can jump directly to it.

131 Officer Duck

Title: Officer Duck
Studio: Disney
Date: 10/10/39
Credits: -
Series: Donald Duck
Running time (of viewed version): 7:37 (without Leonard)

Synopsis: Officer Donald dresses up as a baby to arrest Pegleg Pete.




















Comments: This is the final Disney theatrical short for the year. It's possible the Standard Oil short could have come out after this tho, but it's not quite the same thing. I assume Disney had to redirect most of their energies to finishing off Pinocchio, released about four months after the release of this cartoon. The dispatcher has a certain drawl reminiscent of Lionel Barrymore, tho it's clearly not a vocal caricature. The dashboard clock in Donald's car is great. Don drives recklessly. For some reason, Donald isn't afraid of Tiny Tom (played by Pegleg Pete) when he doesn't believe he's the object of his arresting needs, but is afraid once he realizes Tom is Tom. Pete's a pretty good caregiver. Lone Ranger reference (Pete says "hi ho Silver"). Donald wins at the end for no good reason.

There is a draft on Hans Perk's site for this:
http://afilmla.blogspot.com/2006/09/prod-2230-officer-duck.html

I have a note on my sheet to check
http://afilmla.blogspot.com/search?q=1939
but I can't figure out exactly why. I don' thtink there is Officer Duck material. There is however a draft of Bill Posters dated October 1939 at
http://afilmla.blogspot.com/2006/12/prod-2231-bill-posters.html
so that may have been my intention. Or the note may have been made before the last post to hit 1939, and the Officer Duck stuff got bumped. Odd, I can't find a link to more results on the search '39 page...

Disney Posters of 1939

The following site was linked to from a site, that I forgot to write down. Thanks, referring site I can't remember.

http://www.duckfilm.de/cartoon/cartoon.htm#1939