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

127 One Mother's Family

Title: One Mother's Family
Studio: MGM
Date: 9/30/39
Credits:
A Rudolf Ising Production
Series: -
Running time (of viewed version): 8:17

Synopsis: Chickens: life in the wild.



















Comments: Establishing background shot, but chickens run into it. Human leg in the animal world. Similar to the Mammy Two-Shoes concept, I suppose. The mother hen looks like she's made of tumors. That's a hairy worm, even assuming it's a caterpillar. The chicks dance in mushrooms, similar to the form in Fantasia in the future. Golden stink lines from a skunk; that's new. THe chick with the comb is almost the hero, but then he totally isn't. Big hat on the silhouetted driver. Busy rural road.

BoxOffice, September 30, 1939

BoxOffice, September 30, 1939

H? "The Screen Cartoonists Guild will hold a meeting October 1 to determine whether the group shall affiliate with the studio painters. Total membership comprises nearly 400."


p36? "Walter Lantz. Universal cartoon producer,
visited the BrookfieldZoo
to observe the antics of the celebrated panda, MeiMei, as a guide to the introduction of
"Andy Panda." his newest character. The first in the series will deal with Andy,
his mama and
papa, and a mean-tempered turtle"

p46? "Thirteen Warner-Saxe houses here featured Mickey Mouse birthday parties with Mickey Mouse cartoons in addition to the regular show. A similar show, topped by a free ice cream bar, was staged by Saxe's Jeffris Theatre in Janesville"
"In the latter city, Ashley Theatres' Orwith a circus and wild west show featuring Tom Meekes and his trained animals on the stage, plus "Outlaw of the Range" and five Disney cartoons. The Eastwood advertised a 7-unit show for kids for that day, which included the first episode of "Fighting Devil Dogs," a Three Stooges comedy, a Popeye cartoon, a color cartoon, two sport reels and the feature, "Crime Takes a Holiday.""

p58? "One display case was devoted entirely to original drawings from the Walt Disney studio. There were also the original designs of sets in color."


" Jeepers Creepers

Vitaphone

Looney Tune

1

Mins.
Clever and amusing is this cartoon which has Officer Porky tangling with a happygo-lucky ghost in a haunted house. The ghost has a lot of fun with Porky who has the last laugh"

126 The Fresh Vegetable Mystery

Title: The Fresh Vegetable Mystery
Studio: Fleischer
Date: 9/29/39
Credits:
Direction
Dave Fleischer
Animation
David Tendlar
William Sturm
Music
Sammy Timberg
Series: Color Classic
Running time (of viewed version): 6:53

Synopsis: Mice take sentient carrots, vicious police potatoes terrorize community.



















Comments: Iris on establishing kitchen shot, zoom in quickly; so it's clearly not a WB cartoon... Cops drinking on the beat. Specter of death? Nut cracker with a napkin? My assumption is it's a carrot peeler... Cops being potatoes is arguably racist. They generally beat and torture innocent bystanders. The rolling pin moves nicely. So the villain is mice with some kind of thing. Really, they should be above the potatoes on the food chain. There are times when the potato has many eyes on his body (in keeping with the name of the little white things on potatoes). The toaster has a great symbol. The potatoes sometimes look like the California Raisins.

This cartoon appears (in truncated form) in the first episode of Pee-Wee's Playhouse. This is the only 1939 cartoon to appear in the show.