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
Man. I was a latchkey kid and my parents always worked nights. I only had a few VHS tapes to keep me company those lonely nights and one of them was a three-cartoons tape and this one was on it, it was my favorite lol.. Nostalgic.
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.
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..
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.
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?
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.
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!!!
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
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.
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
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!
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 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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
I love how this short is from characters from well-known books singing merrily to a war to all of these characters getting sent in the book "gone with the wind"
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.
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
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)
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!!
Man. I was a latchkey kid and my parents always worked nights. I only had a few VHS tapes to keep me company those lonely nights and one of them was a three-cartoons tape and this one was on it, it was my favorite lol.. Nostalgic.
I had a tape with this cartoon on it too, when I was very young. Lots of memories
Did it have woody woodpecker on the front?
Yes it did! Holy crap lol
I too had the woody wood pecker video....lost in time but the memories live in inside me.
Same here!
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.
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.
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.
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
One of my childhood classics!
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?
2:21 If you are wondering the song in Green Pastures, it's Cab Calloway - Swing For Sale.
That song was originally in Merrie Melodies’ “Clean Pastures” from 1937
That part with the monsters coming out was freaky at first.
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.
Interesting times back then, always liked these musical cartoons when i was a kid.
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!
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
Who said reading wasn't fun
retro junkie everybody watching this instead of reading the books lol 🤕
Man, I swear I remember this from my childhood.
5:15 Uncle Tom punches Rip Van Wrinkle lol
That’s for cutting his hair
“You have any mortgages you wanna have paid? Baby?!” 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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?
4:44 ... Awww, now I know why Old King Cole was so merry with his fidlers three! The King of Swing!
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.
God! I haven't seen this cartoon since I was a kid! This sure brings back memories
oh fantastic famous 1938 years old from cartoon animation!!
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.
Wowwww, all great clasic books!! Super idea they had!
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 didn't get any of the references when I saw this as a kid. Now I do.
I used to have a dvd with this cartoon on it. I remember watching Snow White and Thumbelina on that dvd as well. 😍
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.
I remember watching this on my dvd's. adorable.
Old King Cole... was a noisy old soul.
I'll get out my scissors that cut...
👊👊👊👊👊
House of Seven Clark Gables. 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
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 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.
OH GOD MY CHILDHOOD
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?
Still neat stuff here.
This is pretty cool. Thanks Patti-Cakes!!!
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.
wow just wow this can get u hyped all night long
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)."
3:15 The Thin Man is making me laughing
the part with the monsters was the best part
Bless you I've been looking for this cartoon for a long time
Lots of Warners Cartoons I've never seen! Thanks!
♫ Old King Cole, I'm a merry old soul ♫
🎵But, the, old, boy, loves, to, have, his, fling🎵
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!
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.
IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS GOD DAMN CARTOON FOR AGES I remember watching this on VHS when I was a TINY baby
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.
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.
The quality of the work still amazes me.
Damn! I remember this cartoon! I think it's aged really well! Even today this is one of my favorite cartoons!
Remember seeing this bit on 50 Classics as a kid.
Omg thankyou for posting! I had this song stuck in my head for a while
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
One of my fav episodes
I remember watching this over and over again on a vhs tape when I was a kid.
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.
OMG i've been looking for this forever!!!
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.
nice collection of toons thanks
What a great cartoon. I love these old cartoons. I can watch them all day. J.M.R. 2018
Very nice Cartoon. These days no longer make cartoons like this. I salute you from Romania
my mom bought the cd and me and my siblings would watch this ALL THE TIME
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
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.
I had this on a VHS of random cartoons and this was one of them. Brought back memories.
Rip Van Winkle is played by a 30 year-old Mel Blanc.
This is my favorite anime
3:06 Cab Calloway in a nut shell
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.
Amazing restoration!!
I have this on an old vhs tape somewhere, always like to see it once and a while.
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.
I remember watching this when my nan sent back vhs while she was out in new york.
My favorite part is Old King Cole. I just love that catchy tune.
face thanks for posting this episode
I was looking for this one specifically yay
Love this one! I remember seeing on Merry Melodies, etc.
I love how this short is from characters from well-known books singing merrily to a war to all of these characters getting sent in the book "gone with the wind"
There's also the PSA with "Have You Got Any Bonds?" with Bugs Bunny,Elmer Fudd and others using the same tune.
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.
Did anybody see rip van winkle get rocked?
I remember having this on VHS as a child
Jesus, it's been nearly 15 years since I last saw this cartoon. Such fuzzy, wonderous memories.
I have this on vhs and I never stop watching the same part
I love this so much I watched this when I was kid took me years to find it again
Nostalgia :)
This one of the greatest !
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
5:28 Oliver Twist Hahahahaha
The green pastures part absolutely slaps imo
Facts
The magic of cab calloway
This was my favorite cartoon when I was a kid...ahhh good old days
I remember old king cole being a hell of a lot scarier.
5:28 So great! I love Charles Dickens so much!
Old man got hands😄
a true classic, warner did several of these, all funny