OK, here's who appears: W. C. Fields (red nose), Bing Crosby (well-known for betting on horse races), restaurant table for Dagwood Bumstead and his baby daughter, Baby Dumpling (comic strip characters who also appeared in movies), Katherine Hepburn, John Barrymore (first of three appearances here), Rita Hayworth and Fred Astaire (as they looked in the Columbia Pictures film released about this same time, "You'll Never Get Rich"), in the cement of Grauman's Chinese Theater: Sonja Heinie (ice skater, so her autograph is in ice), Greta Garbo (always caricatured as having big feet), Paul Muni, and Joan Crawford, William Powell (famous for "The Thin Man", which created a series of murder mysteries that used this name), Jell-O mold home of Jack Benny (since Jell-O was the sponsor of his popular radio program), "the home of Baby Candy" (no idea who that is), the home of Gypsy Rose Lee (famous stripper), baseball game: Joe E. Brown, Marx Brothers, and the Three Stooges, horse belonging to Kate Smith (famous singer who was very fat), on the beach at Malibu: Laurel & Hardy (lying down), Clark Gable, Edna Mae Oliver, and George Raft. John Barrymore machine-guns all the autograph hounds at the end.
Released on January 23, 1942. Written & directed by Frank Tashlin, featuring a shout-out to Punchy (Petey) Pelican, of the _Fables_ series (complete with theme music 3:27... which is use in other Columbia series, including the intro for this _Color Rhapsody_). Bulk of the animation is done by Emery Hawkins (_8 Ball Bunny_). 3:41 ~ 3:47- reuse animation from the _Color Rhapsody_, _The Mad Hatter_ (1940)...
Quite a fair bit of the cartoon is a "cheater" actually... The brief snippet from 1:24-1:36 is lifted from Poor Elmer (1938) Most of the baseball sequence starting at 5:12 is taken/repurposed from Hollywood Picnic (1937)
Luka Chincharadze They did but honestly... I still laughed just cuz of it hadn’t been recycled, it would have made a great way to poke fun at what it’s like to sit and animate for hours and days. Lol 😂
It makes me so sad. I love looking up pictures of old LA, it was so cool. Before the freeways, Hollywood use to be full of mimetic architecture. That means buildings built to look like something else, usually involving whatever product they sell there. An example is like the hot stand 'Tail of the Pup' - it's shaped like a big hotdog or the Brown Derby restaurant - it was a giant hat!
Here’s a who’s who of the celebrities and cultural references: “Hedy” refers to Hedy Lamar The guy with the red nose is W.C. Fields The Brown Darby is referring to the famed restaurant The Brown Derby That is Bing Crosby with a few of the racehorses that he owned We see references to Blondie characters Baby Dumpling and his father Dagwood Bumstead, who was famous for making gigantic sandwiches. That is a very stern Katherine heartburn, eating vegetables John Barrymore is the star who keeps getting mobbed by fans That is Rita Hayworth and Fred Astaire dancing together The animated cartoon studio is a takeoff of the Taj Mahal. Above the door there is a sign saying it is the home of Punchy Pelican referred to the failed character Petey Pelican from Screen Gems Fables series. The drawings of the animators behind bars are staff animators that Tashlin worked with The theater with the footprints in front is Grumman’s Chinese Theater. The autographs are from Sonja Heinie, Greta Garbo, Paul Muni and Joan Crawford Actor William Powell is the man coming out of the very thin house. He was famous for playing a character called The Thin Man The house made of Jell-O is a “joke” referring to radio comedian Jack Benny. Jell-O was his long-time sponsor. There is a home that says it is owned by Baby Candy. That refers to Baby Sandy, a child star of the time. The leaf on the clothesline represents stripper Gypsy Rose Lee There is another reference to the Blondie comic strip with a doghouse that belongs to their dog Daisy At the baseball game is comedian Joe E Brown, the Marx Brothers, and the Three Stooges. At the Santa Anita racetrack, there is a attractive horse owned by attractive movie star Cary Grant and a very bent horse owned by very heavy singer Kate Smith At Malibu Beach the sexy babe is actor Edna Mae Oliver The actor flipping the coin is George Raft
I didn’t know that the autograph hounds are part 🐶 k-9 @ 2:31-2:38. Columbia Pictures’ “Blondie” film series references @ 1:58-2:09 & 5:04 and The 3 Stooges’ 4th animated color cameo appearance @ 5:29.
The animation of Joe E. Brown and the Stooges was reused from Hollywood Picnic. But for this cartoon, they came up with a different gag for the Marx Brothers.
Hollywood itself was largely built between 1910-1930 and suburban sprawl was just starting to reach past the Hollywood Hills into the San Fernando Valley in the few years before the war. The studios were major engines of this, with Universal City and the Disney campus in Burbank established in this period.
You know how America was allegedly "Never That Great?" Turns out that Hollywood never had a Golden Age, either. And even the best of animation to come out of Hollywood's anus couldn't make up for that.
3:57 Sonia Hennae (Sonja Henie) has her name in ice instead of cement, referencing her Olympic and World-Class skating career. 6:00 Kate Smith's horse - that joke would *NEVER* fly today.
@@christian1775 Kate Smith was a singer/actress who was overweight, so the horse's back being broken is making fun of the fact that she was overweight.
@@l.l.chalfant9511 No, Frank Grahanm. Persoanlly, I geussed Robert C.Bruce, known from the WB cartoons and at least one of Geo.Pal/Paramount's Puppetoons, FIVE HATS..BARTHOLOMEW CUBBINS
I love the Golden Age of Hollywood. Seems so glamours and fantastical. Definitely not like it is today. Why do these cartoons always show Bing with horses?
Depending upon what you define as "honesty." Current celebrities do not have the class and polish of the old stars. They were prudent in what they said publicly in spite of certain stories about the private lives of some. But for the most part they were true "artists" and professionals.
I don't think so. Older celebrities don't deal with internet and daily tabloids (or tabloid level newspapers) so they can keep their life more private. Current papparazzi are more ruthless and willing to lie to sell their rags.
It was Bob Hope who often referred to Bing in his radio monologues about his stable of "broken-down nags", and how they never seemed to finish a race [in "The Old Grey Hare" (1944), a wizened Elmer Fudd reads a 2000 {A.D.} newspaper headline stating, "Bing Crosby's Horse Hasn't Come In Yet!"].
Columbia had a chance to have the most important cartoon studio (Walt Disney), but Disney passed and went to RKO. Columbia finally got quality (and Oscars) in the 1950s with the UPA (Mr. Magoo) cartoons.
Columbia was sure promoting some of their [roducts in this cartoon. I wonder what would of happen to Frank Tashlin if he parodied the head of Columbia?Cohen. Probably would have gotten fired. Imagine a cartoon version of him chasing jean Arthur around the office.
That's Harry COHN. Surprisingly, Cohn was well aware he was the role model for the character played by Broderick Crawford in the great 1950 Columbia release, "Born Yesterday." The film was a great Broadway play first and then an Oscar nominee. Anything for a buck, I guess.
@patrix sprigner It more of a Columbia cartoon thing, in which the budgets were tight, especially for the more expensive full coulour cartoons, so these methods were meant to keep the studio on budget. More of their shorts were in black and white than colour and was the last to abandon black and white, only to use two-strip colour (cine colour which is basically between black and white and full colour or Technicolor).
![The Way of All Pests [Columbia/Screen Gems, 1941]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/vhnJyeCcGbA/mqdefault.jpg)
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OK, here's who appears: W. C. Fields (red nose), Bing Crosby (well-known for betting on horse races), restaurant table for Dagwood Bumstead and his baby daughter, Baby Dumpling (comic strip characters who also appeared in movies), Katherine Hepburn, John Barrymore (first of three appearances here), Rita Hayworth and Fred Astaire (as they looked in the Columbia Pictures film released about this same time, "You'll Never Get Rich"), in the cement of Grauman's Chinese Theater: Sonja Heinie (ice skater, so her autograph is in ice), Greta Garbo (always caricatured as having big feet), Paul Muni, and Joan Crawford, William Powell (famous for "The Thin Man", which created a series of murder mysteries that used this name), Jell-O mold home of Jack Benny (since Jell-O was the sponsor of his popular radio program), "the home of Baby Candy" (no idea who that is), the home of Gypsy Rose Lee (famous stripper), baseball game: Joe E. Brown, Marx Brothers, and the Three Stooges, horse belonging to Kate Smith (famous singer who was very fat), on the beach at Malibu: Laurel & Hardy (lying down), Clark Gable, Edna Mae Oliver, and George Raft. John Barrymore machine-guns all the autograph hounds at the end.
Baby Dumpling was Dagwood & Blondie's son. Their daughter's name was Cookie.
Baby CANDY? I know about a LOT of those, but not this...Sonia Henia, classic star.
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You forgot the three stooges...
*"Baby Ruth" is who you're looking for* ( *She was famous for awhile* )
It's "Edna May Oliver" not "Mae" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_May_Oliver
Love to watch these old cartoons!
Narrated by Frank Graham, who did the horses. Mel Blanc provided hiccup.
Released on January 23, 1942. Written & directed by Frank Tashlin, featuring a shout-out to Punchy (Petey) Pelican, of the _Fables_ series (complete with theme music 3:27... which is use in other Columbia series, including the intro for this _Color Rhapsody_).
Bulk of the animation is done by Emery Hawkins (_8 Ball Bunny_).
3:41 ~ 3:47- reuse animation from the _Color Rhapsody_, _The Mad Hatter_ (1940)...
Quite a fair bit of the cartoon is a "cheater" actually...
The brief snippet from 1:24-1:36 is lifted from Poor Elmer (1938)
Most of the baseball sequence starting at 5:12 is taken/repurposed from Hollywood Picnic (1937)
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The scene with Audrey Hepburn eating a celery stick is also a lift from Hollywood picnic.
It's Katherine Hepburn. I think she was a vegetarian.
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Sorry, Katherine Hepburn.
"Animated Cartoon Studio, Home of Punchy Pelican". Now a supermarket on that site.
4:41- a reference to Jack's radio sponsor at the time- "J-E-L-L.......Oh, YOU KNOW."
oh im so JELLO
prolly what..a month or two before switching it to grape nuts cereal due to rations.
At 3:43 they reused an old clip from The Mad Hatter
Luka Chincharadze
They did but honestly... I still laughed just cuz of it hadn’t been recycled, it would have made a great way to poke fun at what it’s like to sit and animate for hours and days. Lol 😂
Holy shit how much LA has changed over the near 80 years since this was made lol
It makes me so sad. I love looking up pictures of old LA, it was so cool.
Before the freeways, Hollywood use to be full of mimetic architecture. That means buildings built to look like something else, usually involving whatever product they sell there. An example is like the hot stand 'Tail of the Pup' - it's shaped like a big hotdog or the Brown Derby restaurant - it was a giant hat!
This was at a time when Hollywood was REALLY glamorous, before it turned into the shit that it is today,
It's strange you say that. It's 2017, I work in Hollywood and live in Burbank, and every single thing I saw in this cartoon is still spot-on.
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America's finest
Have never seen a Screen Gems Cartoon,so a Real Treat for Me! Thank You!
Although Hanna-Barbera cartoons as Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound are not invented, even the UPA.
Sometimes, I miss that place.
What, Hollywood?
This cartoon was on this morning on Toon in with me
Yep. I had never seen it before. Enjoyed it a great deal!
i recognized some of these stars who were in this🙂
7:04 LMAO he flipped and just shot all of them. no way that would be shown these days
Elite GamingWolf Your comment makes no sense as it is "these days" and it was just shown.
I agree with you this is sarcasm,right?
It looks like the budget was very tight: very spare use of animation and most of it is recycled.
Yes agreed, recycled mostly animation.
Yeah, it was 1942. Disney was making a lot of "package" films that were cheap.
So?!
So there
would love to see you do the same in 1942. that’s right. u can’t. ur comparing while living in 2022 american dumb fuck
Saudades desses desenhos ❤✨
According to IMDb. Paul Fress was the narrator
7:08 Wow, that aged well.
Yes it is like fine wine with how true it is.
3:07 bruh even back in the 40s it was already bad lmao 😭😭😭
Some things never change.
This one turned out to be good, true ending
This channel is just amazing
Hilarious how they drew the famous stars of the day in 😆
Here’s a who’s who of the celebrities and cultural references:
“Hedy” refers to Hedy Lamar
The guy with the red nose is W.C. Fields
The Brown Darby is referring to the famed restaurant The Brown Derby
That is Bing Crosby with a few of the racehorses that he owned
We see references to Blondie characters Baby Dumpling and his father Dagwood Bumstead, who was famous for making gigantic sandwiches.
That is a very stern Katherine heartburn, eating vegetables
John Barrymore is the star who keeps getting mobbed by fans
That is Rita Hayworth and Fred Astaire dancing together
The animated cartoon studio is a takeoff of the Taj Mahal. Above the door there is a sign saying it is the home of Punchy Pelican referred to the failed character Petey Pelican from Screen Gems Fables series. The drawings of the animators behind bars are staff animators that Tashlin worked with
The theater with the footprints in front is Grumman’s Chinese Theater. The autographs are from Sonja Heinie, Greta Garbo, Paul Muni and Joan Crawford
Actor William Powell is the man coming out of the very thin house. He was famous for playing a character called The Thin Man
The house made of Jell-O is a “joke” referring to radio comedian Jack Benny. Jell-O was his long-time sponsor.
There is a home that says it is owned by Baby Candy. That refers to Baby Sandy, a child star of the time.
The leaf on the clothesline represents stripper Gypsy Rose Lee
There is another reference to the Blondie comic strip with a doghouse that belongs to their dog Daisy
At the baseball game is comedian Joe E Brown, the Marx Brothers, and the Three Stooges.
At the Santa Anita racetrack, there is a attractive horse owned by attractive movie star Cary Grant and a very bent horse owned by very heavy singer Kate Smith
At Malibu Beach the sexy babe is actor Edna Mae Oliver
The actor flipping the coin is George Raft
I didn’t know that the autograph hounds are part 🐶 k-9 @ 2:31-2:38.
Columbia Pictures’ “Blondie” film series references @ 1:58-2:09 & 5:04 and The 3 Stooges’ 4th animated color cameo appearance @ 5:29.
Feels a bit like older Family Guys episodes. I don’t get the referencrs because they’re tied to older time periods.
"beware of wolves" Instantly thought of Clark Gable
The 3 Stooges is in the cartoon. 5:29
Thanks to their overwhelminbg popularity BUT even MORE so HERE< thanks to Columbia already HAVING them!
Gracias por el animado
i had such fun being able to tell who the stars where debra jane lerner
Some scenes from the baseball game were lifted from "Hollywood Picnic".
I recognized the segment here with Joe E. Brown, the Marx Brothers, and the Three Stooges all playing baseball from "Hollywood Picnic."
Okay you only know this exist if you had great grandparents and grandparents that lived till 100…..
I love how the three toges 5:27
Home of Punchy Pelican
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didn't they have the same joe e brown and the marx bros. and the three stooges bit in the Hollywood picnic cartoon.
The animation of Joe E. Brown and the Stooges was reused from Hollywood Picnic. But for this cartoon, they came up with a different gag for the Marx Brothers.
The animators are from the Mad Hatter.
Just think, this cartoon today is closer to the Civil War in years than it is today in 2024.
7:45 so that's where Walter Cronkite got his catchphrase!
Ho hum...
1:57 Who is that singer?
Bing Crosby
And these characters are just plain nuts but funny
Paul Frees' first tole. (as the narrator)
David Wilkins :Paul Frees...man of a thouand voices.
That's NOT Paul Frees.
David Wilkins it’s Frank Graham
@@RayPointerChannel Frank Graham narrated.
@@2005dave Correct.
Was Tex Avery involved in the shorts?
@buzzclick500 shorts as in animated cartoons
Don't think so but you can see his writing influence
is the brown derby even still around? i remember it appeared in "cats dont dance" so is it still around?? o.o
It’s long gone
What mean is Hollywood Detour? What are they doing?
I think it means like a trip to a place that's not like anywhere else cutie
Who else see the 3 stooges?
yup
Who is the guy who keeps getting tackled by the autograph hounds?
And who is the woman with the umbrella on the beach?
John Barrymore
Edna May Oliver
So in 1942 Hollywood was surrounded by pastureland. Interesting.
Now it's all oil & gas fields.
Hollywood itself was largely built between 1910-1930 and suburban sprawl was just starting to reach past the Hollywood Hills into the San Fernando Valley in the few years before the war. The studios were major engines of this, with Universal City and the Disney campus in Burbank established in this period.
Current's Copyright:Sony Pictures Animation(?)
Although funny, this cartoon has NOT aged well, I have no idea who most of the people referenced are.
O)thers will tell you..youy SHOULD know of Kate Smith, patriotic Americna, and beloved family member type, and Christmas cheer bringer...ahh.!
They were before my time, and I know them.
Not much has changed..
They changed the names slightly of most of the celebs...perhaps for legal reasons
Even mor so, satirical ones. This is comedy.;
John Barrymore.
Bad when CA was worth a damn…
BOOM ROASTED
¡Greta Garbo and her big feet! LOL
Takling about reusing animations. The return of the mad hatters from a completely different project was downright lame.
6:36 Oliver
You know how America was allegedly "Never That Great?" Turns out that Hollywood never had a Golden Age, either. And even the best of animation to come out of Hollywood's anus couldn't make up for that.
Now thas Interesting. Seems like America has a habit of fabricating tales just to maintain a certain image.
Yep, it had a Golden Age.
6:20 gable
Casual mass murder.
Sadly, this is not a very good cartoon.
i hate old cartoon is a********k fik dis😟
3:39 Not these guys from Mad Hatter (1940) again!
I could easily picture Curly crying like in "Oily To Bed, Oily to Rise," when he was slapped.
is that Basil Rsthbone that keeps getting jumped?
That was "the Great Profile," John Barrymore.
2:08 Hepburn
Molina Long i noticed as well.
It’s like some sort of Pre-Animaniacs. Love it.
Thanks for posting
The reason they always show Crosby with horses he owned a bunch plus he was a part owner of Sananta horse track
Narrator sounds like Tex Avery.
Ahhh, At 3:03 you can see how they showed the future of the streets of LA. The only thing missing are people urinating and defecating on the corners.
And the medical grade "free" syringes that replaced the plastic straws.
3:57 Sonia Hennae (Sonja Henie) has her name in ice instead of cement, referencing her Olympic and World-Class skating career.
6:00 Kate Smith's horse - that joke would *NEVER* fly today.
Yeah... That Kate Smith joke was... Not subtle. Would children of the time have known who she was?
They no make-a dis cartoon for de bambinos, bimbominkia.
@@SmittenKitten. what does that cade Smith joke mean
@@christian1775 Kate Smith was a singer/actress who was overweight, so the horse's back being broken is making fun of the fact that she was overweight.
@@SmittenKitten.Yes.
Everyone be aware of Hollywood wolves, TRUE
why is it raining in arizona?
I would expect it to be protrayed as a hell pit of heat instead
Where the hell did you get this? It's a beautiful print, man!
Some of this was in Hollywood Picnic - in B&W.
The narrator is Frank Graham.
Paul Frees narrator
@@l.l.chalfant9511 No, Frank Grahanm. Persoanlly, I geussed Robert C.Bruce, known from the WB cartoons and at least one of Geo.Pal/Paramount's Puppetoons, FIVE HATS..BARTHOLOMEW CUBBINS
1:56 Crosby
2:45 Barrymore
I love the Golden Age of Hollywood. Seems so glamours and fantastical. Definitely not like it is today. Why do these cartoons always show Bing with horses?
He owned racehorses and used to joke about their success.
They also hide their lies pretty well. Current celebrities actually way more honest, for better or worse.
Depending upon what you define as "honesty." Current celebrities do not have the class and polish of the old stars. They were prudent in what they said publicly in spite of certain stories about the private lives of some. But for the most part they were true "artists" and professionals.
I don't think so. Older celebrities don't deal with internet and daily tabloids (or tabloid level newspapers) so they can keep their life more private. Current papparazzi are more ruthless and willing to lie to sell their rags.
It was Bob Hope who often referred to Bing in his radio monologues about his stable of "broken-down nags", and how they never seemed to finish a race [in "The Old Grey Hare" (1944), a wizened Elmer Fudd reads a 2000 {A.D.} newspaper headline stating, "Bing Crosby's Horse Hasn't Come In Yet!"].
10:07 Barrymore could bear no more.
Columbia tried with this, but it doesn't come close to the Hollywood-themed cartoons Warner Bros. & Disney made.
Columbia had a chance to have the most important cartoon studio (Walt Disney), but Disney passed and went to RKO. Columbia finally got quality (and Oscars) in the 1950s with the UPA (Mr. Magoo) cartoons.
Hermosas. Caricaturas. !! Lástima. Qué. No. Se. Volverán. A. Hacer. Otras. Iguales. Sulema.
Aww. Poor Kate Smith reference.
Some of these people were on Hollywood step out
Who was the celebrity that was singing with the horses inside the restaurant? I didn't know him?
Diamond Nova Bing Crosby
The one and only BING CROSBY, whom you hear every christmas and is in, fact, heard singing at the start of the current box office hit, SHAZZAM! :-)
Who restored this? Sony? Thunderbean?
***** Do you know if this was part of a collection?
@0:29 they really split north and south jersey
Lol the sun soaked paradise is a bit too sun soaked. (Catches on fire)... becomes literal hell.
2:08 someone it's looks like Cartman's mom from South Park
Who was Baby Candy?
And now Hollywood looks like #$@#!!
Gustavo B yeap :/
How many celebrity caricatures you can name?
All of them, but somebody already did it here.
Wow. A celebrity portrayed shooting up a beach...Don't make them like that anymore. XD
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It was supposed to be John Barrymore
I was just thinking that. You would never see this kinda joke anymore because someone might get offended.
+Honey Bee86 No wonder Drew Barrymore is so weird. John Barrymore is her great granpappy!
New Yorkers, Californians, and Texans are some of the most vain ppl when it comes to where they come from
4:14 Barrymore again
Henry Fondle....uh...okay 1942.
Columbia was sure promoting some of their [roducts in this cartoon. I wonder what would of happen to Frank Tashlin if he parodied the head of Columbia?Cohen. Probably would have gotten fired. Imagine a cartoon version of him chasing jean Arthur around the office.
That's Harry COHN. Surprisingly, Cohn was well aware he was the role model for the character played by Broderick Crawford in the great 1950 Columbia release, "Born Yesterday." The film was a great Broadway play first and then an Oscar nominee. Anything for a buck, I guess.
It's mostly background art...skimp animation...was this due to the man power shortage of the war or was this common in Columbia cartoons?
@patrix sprigner It more of a Columbia cartoon thing, in which the budgets were tight, especially for the more expensive full coulour cartoons, so these methods were meant to keep the studio on budget. More of their shorts were in black and white than colour and was the last to abandon black and white, only to use two-strip colour (cine colour which is basically between black and white and full colour or Technicolor).
Arizona? Raining? Hahahaha
Mass shooting of the autograph hounds
Unfortunately, Barrymore died in 1942 at 62!
5:24 who are they
Amanda Tarver 3 of the Marx Brothers I think