HOLLYWOOD PICNIC-Color Rhapsody (Charles Mintz/Columbia-1937)
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- In this 1937 entry from Columbia Pictures' "Color Rhapsodies" series, Hollywood stars go on a picnic. Among the stars caricatured are W.C. Fields, The Marx Brothers, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, the Three Stooges, Clark Gable, Shirley Temple, Mae West, Katherine Hepburn, Greta Garbo, Martha Raye, Step'n Fetchit, and many more.
Shown with the original Columbia main titles intact, this cartoon, released by Columbia Pictures, was produced by Charles Mintz and supervised by Sid Marcus (story) and Art Davis (animation) with music by Joe DeNat.
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I absolutely love the artistry of these old cartoons, the orignals.
Two common themes in 1930s cartoons: caricatures of movie stars, and the world going mad for swing music. This one has ‘em both.
I'm continually amazed at the volumes and excellence of historical archives, all available at our fingertips! Thanks uploader!
incidently, Joe E. Brown was a professional baseball player. His moves are a reflection of his love of the sport and several baseball themed flicks he starred in about this era.
he was part owner of the pittsburgh pirates in the 1950s.
@@drafe007 You seem to have him confused with Bing Crosby. However, his son, Joe Jr., was the Pirates GM during their World Series championships of 1960 and 1971, the latter was when they assembled the first all black starting lineup. Joe Sr. had to have been belt buckling proud of his son, seeing he loved baseball more than anything else.
Shirley Temple looks absolutely adorable :3
preferred loony tunes - Hollywood steps out
Definitely the Disney version was better, the gags were better and the caricatures were more believable.
I preferred the Warners one the best, but they all borrowed from the Mintz cartoon.
Good one also with the conga beat and gable chasing the blond only to find out it's groucho . Don't make toons like that any more . One of the best !
Just thinking that.
I ADORE ‘Hollywood Steps Out’! 💙💙💙
I'm thinking that in those earlier days, actors, performers, each had their own unique style or personality or character . . . their own "look." Today, not so much. They are interchangeable.
+Allan Stark I agree! "Talkies" were relatively new and so they had to bring in Broadway stage actors to fill the rolls. That is why stars of the day were so "big" and identifiable. Most of the silent stars were doomed! Indeed Pola Negri (Barbara Apolonia Chalupiec) had a Polish accent so thick as to be barely intelligible. Gene Kelly's "Singing in the Rain" shows this hilariously well with Jean Hagen's Lina Lamont! Unfortunately, somebody invented "The Method " and acting and actors became quite small.
i wouldn't say that "the method" is entirely to blame for that. I will say that had strasberg's interpretation been given complete prominence over that of stella adler's or others, acting and actors would be far worse off in my opinion. but in general i think method acting has helped the craft more than hurt. if anything i think more people may have gotten away from it means to truly act, although that's just from the outside lookin' in, so i don't know. i could be totally wrong.
A lot of this is due to plastic surgery, airbrushing and other widespread practices that reduce and eliminate idiosyncratic appearance quirks. They're interchangeable because most of them went to the same handful of surgeons to get their nosejobs and botox fishlips.
I find that's more true of actresses than of actors, and least true of comedians. All the Hollywood actresses look alike, but there's only one Fluffy!
same with Max Schreck who played Nosferatu. In real life he had a high pitched whisper voice and a lisp. That's why he was never recast after Nosferatu
this is hilarious!! one of the best "hollywood steps out" toons I've ever seen. Super caricatures especially of Moe Larry and Curly (even got the woowoowoo right!)
I love how disinterested they always make Greta Garbo sound.
"Owwww-chh"
+Martin Meers "I vant so much to be alone..."
They also show her with enormous feet; for some reason the myth of huge feet got attached to her.
Her shoes were a size 7, in an age when most women's feet were smaller, say a 4 or 5.
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I have size 10.5 feet. Size 7 is not a huge boat-like foot, lol
The Marx Brothers hitting and The Three Stooges catching? I LOVE IT!
Color Rhapsody - Hollywood Picnic (1937) Opening Title & Closing
A Columbia Cartoon Release On December 18, 1937
@@笹原煌太 2:14 The Three Stooges Slapping each other and Larry punches Curly and Curly going:Woo Woo Woo.😁😁😂😂
I haven't seen this in about 55 + - years
I use to watch these great actors and actresses in the old black and white TV .
The one that was mixing all of the condiments on his peas may have been Buster Keaton but the thing is that Buster was never too far from his straw hat .
Reminds me of a poem my father used to say, "I eat my peas with honey, I've done it all my life. I know that they taste funny but it keeps them on my knife."
love Katherine Hepburn eating celery.
I wonder if that's supposed to be a sexist symbolism of women watching wieght?
@@jacobitewiseman3696 No she actually use to brag about eating nothing but fruits and veggies no one forced her she stayed dieting because she wanted to keep her slim figure.
@@softiebbybunny2317 I was actually joking anyways.
@@jacobitewiseman3696 I agree with you, women watching their weight is pretty funny.
greta grabo swinging it. priceless.
7:15- Look, Boris Karloff!
That was fun. My favorite was Drew Barrymore's Grand Father trying to eat peas with a knife. Cheers ; )
The famous profile?
John Barrymore, to be precise. He and my grandfather hung out at the Art Students League of NY in the 20s and 30s. Barrymore was a decent caricature artist.
Tallulahs method of eating peas had to be an inside joke knowing her reputation....
Stepin fetchit, is the black actor.
Sweet
Holy shit, the women singing is fucken scary
I think I saw this one on a VHS tape back around 1987 called "Banned Cartoons" or something like that.
Trivia } The baseball scene with the Marx Brothers & the Three Stooges is reused for the Columbia animated short "A Hollywood Detour"from 1942.
This was released in 1937, a full six years before Columbia finally decided to dip its toe in Technicolor with its own live action film, "The Desperadoes," a good Western. In '44, the studio released "Cover Girl," one of the biggest hits of the 1940s. After that, Columbia was never reluctant to spare the expense with only black and white films.
I always find it remarkable that cartoons with this theme of multiple movie stars show caricatures of actors and actresses from all the studios, not just the one that produced the cartoon. Normally no studio would promote a competing one’s product. Yet here are stars from MGM, 20th Century Fox, Watner Bros., and Columbia itself.
All of my favorite celebrities were having fun and it has my favorite stooge in it
4:32-4:45 reminds me of the following verse:
I eat my peas with honey
I’ve done it all my life
It makes the peas taste funny
But it keeps them on my knife
This is art!❤️
Another classic cartoon to check out is "Mother Goose Goes to Hollywood". The Katherine Hepburn parody in that one is hilarious.
This is true authentic animation. Back when it took real artists who were experienced at drawing and they literally drew it all by hand.
The one yelling "Come and Get it" for the picnic feed is Edward Arnold (star of the film of that name).
Aside from Boris Karloff, Katharine Hepburn and Shirley Temple, the only actors I recognised here were comedians, including Laurel & Hardy, the Marx Brothers and the Three Stooges. I guess comedy has a longer shelf life than serious fare!
A sign of the times. At that time.
wc fields is funny and 10 cents for a hotdog instead of 4-5 dollars today!
Shit in New England their 10 plus at places like junkyard dogs, or the orient point ferry
I use my mashed potatoes to eat my peas on my knife, works great and use my biscuits to mop up my gravy.
Bring back the oldie but goodies!
Cuando las estrellas eran talento de verdad.
Increíble el trabajo.
Love to see them try to put this on today ... law suit heaven . Just don't make cartoons like they used to . Also , I remember some of these from growing up lat 50s and 60s I saw some of these before they were reruns. Getting old but these toons aren't . Thanks for memories of when tv was great !
5:53 Dude on the right has one eye, Lol 😂
DatGoldenBear That's Clark Gable, you mean? That's the way how they set/animated him :)
1:18 I guess Spencer Tracy and Bette Davis will keep coming back, until they really get a hot dog!!!!!
W. C. Fields my chickadee
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7:35 Hollywood Picnic - end titles recreation
The Song That Plays At The Very Beginning Is Called You Ought To Be In Pictures
Oh back when you had to have some talent to be in the entertainment industry
This is simpler times were they do make fun of celebrities in cartoons but now you can't do any cartoon without getting sued or offended it's nice to see this kind of cartoons portrayed actors as happy go lucky people
I was able to ID some of them without looking at the list.. Joe E Brown was the pitcher.
Back then,Screen Gems was primarly a Short Movie company and wasn't yet a TV Mogul!
Today's entertainers have got nothing on the ones from the 1930's an 40's.
Maybe Cartoons should be Poking Fun at the Big Ass Kardashian Sisters.
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2:16 Strike?? That was beyond a ball!
If you aren't and old film buff you wouldn't have any idea who half these actors and actresses were. But if you are a baby boomer like me and lived during the Golden Age of TV you were exposed to them.
I saw a lot of these types of shorts on the Disney Channel as a kid in the 80s. Of course I didn't know who the stars were, but at least it helped plant the seed for later. :)
I'll just Google it. Besides I'd rather learn about
History than the history of Hollywood
Boomer here . Seen some of these before they were reruns . Getting old , but the toons aren't. Don't make toons like they used to . I'd love to see Yosemite Sam vs spongebob lol . Love these Hollywood toons thanks !
I recognized some of the characters, especially the comedians, but not several of the others.
macsnafu Here's some names: Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, W.C. Fields, Fanny Brice, Shirley Temple, Step'n Fetchin, The Marx Brothers, and Mae West.
That was awesome!
Great !
Hugh Herbert eating his peas with honey
That was back in the good old days when movie stars knew their place.
among other people lol
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA thats hilarious, oh what you don't know.
Treemeadow The studios would have kept today's stars from shooting their mouths off.
+Suvi L don't forget the good old days back when there was hardly any people of color and the few that were there had to vhange there name and play demeaning roles just to get a foot in the door.the good old days back when to describe a native American you wound have to say injun or indian whivh would make you twice as wrong.
Lord Blackburn political correctness is a bitch.
Produced by Charles Mintz, who will always be remembered as the guy who screwed Walt Disney out of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in 1928.
Now it's "Charles who?" while Disney's ghost owns the world.
Yet Walt Disney successfully reinvented Oswald Rabbit as Mickey Mouse just as Jay Ward reinvented Crusader Rabbit and Rags the Tiger as Rocky and Bullwinkle! ☺ ☺
Though Walt never technically owned Oswald. That was Mintz (at the time). Yes it was unfair what he did to Walt but, legally Mintz could take the "creator" away from the character he created if you don't do things their way. Which was why Disney eventually lost Oswald. He (Mintz) wanted a 20% cut in the budget and most of the staff went with Mintz. Walt refused to sign, and lost Oswald.
Stephen Holloway you are correct. You saved me from writing this info. The man paid the money, it was his property. But a Disney combined Oswald with his mice characters and made Mickey!
yeah, but they got him back. ;) :D
Step N Fetch is brutal to watch... we’ve come a loooong way
Looks like a public domain copy, with only the red and green registers and not the blue. Great to see though!
*un tesoro...gracias!!!*
7:13 oh look, it's Derek Zoolander
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I do not think the watermelon gag would go over in these times!
Totally awesome cartoon
Reality of aday gone by.
Now 4:02 Sounds Like a Federal Model 28H.
Fantastic, I could recognize the Marx brothers, Greta Garbo, Edgar G Robinson, the Wizard of Oz, and the rest of them just beats me. Fantastic anyway 😊
4:27 Here's an idea, guy. Maybe don't eat peas with a butterknife
I love Hollywood Steps Out more than this one, but it was cool to see
4:21 Vincent Price?
John Barrymore, known as The Great Profile, which is how they end his spot.
Black Culture!....now l see how racism was back then
and you can certainly see how it is today
People were not so easily butt hurt as they are now. Of course today you could never show a cartoon like this one kinda sad
@@johnsiders7819 black ppl won't cool with that shit back then too so wym??? Its not like black people all of a sudden got smart and realized racism that shit is smack right in the face idk what the hell his ass was even saying
That was a parody of an actor with the stage name Stepin Fetchit. If you look up any of his old video, you'll find he was not easy to understand. He was a black man acting stupid so he could make money in a white man's world. It was the 1930's and racism was running rampant, and Hollywood was no exception. This sort of thing certainly does not play well today. Amos 'n' Andy ran into trouble when it went to TV in the 1950's, as people were already getting tired of that kind of crap.
0:41. Clark gable
Oh.
Yes, that's Clark Gable.
My gosh that watermelon guy looks so down, I wonder why?
Classic to the tee satire.
Sam Judge It's the way how the animators/creators designed/makes it.
@Duane Mercer or its based on a comical actor that's personally seems dumb witted. Even if this is a stereotype of demographics, the short is making fun of other celebrities as well, as it's a comedy.
I know a little bit of the actor with the watermelon but I'm assuming that he's actually did number of comical shorts.
so, i guess everyone is ignoring the black man?
What about it? Who gives a shit
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oh boy that Stepin Fetchit bit that's rough
It was made back when you could do thst and no one complained about how it was un-PC. Least it's not Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat.
@@canaisyoung3601 black people complained then just like now....we had our own black newspapers we could complain to
Made in 1937 and much better animated than today cartoons.
make me lough this. To see those ancient actors someones ugly
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OMG this is an absolute GEM, thank you for posting! Definitely the good ole days of Hollywood the golden era when they played the Newsreel and a cartoon first! Can you imagine today a cartoon being played with the uhh, err, watermelon bit in it? ADL and NAACP phones would be ringing off their hooks. And the funny part is that wasn't considered nor meant to be in any way _racist_ back then just funny and the black folk laughed just as much everyone all races were just better sports! 👏😊
They would laugh along because they'd get lynched if they didn't.
I don’t like, it I’m glad it’s not ok.
@@connorscanlan2167well its dark times yes
6:21 what entertainer is that?
Which of Karloff's characters is that at 7:14?
I wanna say dracula cause of the cape But the face may of been frankenstein/mummy.
Possibly CHARLIE CHAN AT THE OPERA-'36 where he was a demented baritone and tried to recreate his greatest role as Mephistopheles?
+Noel l Cotelo you know I kinda thought Dracula at first too, because of the cape, but with a different face.
Possibly the cartoonist was CONFUSED between Karloff and Lugosi?...
I think it's from Behind the Mast.
6:36...the fucking mountain of watermelon
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5:10 that popular kid in school
Joe E Brown pitching
Heh heh! OK, I recognize WC Fields, the Marx Brothers, the Three Stooges, Greta Garbo, Joe E. Brown, Edward G Robinson and Boris Karloff, but I'm stumped on the rest. Who is the singer - at first I thought Judy Garland, but maybe Martha Raye? Who are the three pea-eaters? The stereotypical black guy? Anyway, very funny toon!
I believe that is Martha Raye, and the African American man is Stephen Fetchit.
Sheri451 Many thanks indeed. I wasn't even aware of the Stepin Fetchit persona before; having read your explanation and the Wikipedia article, I am enlightened.
Stepin Fetchit's schtick was basically "the world's laziest man" which is why, after taking a week to get to first base, it's so great that he takes off like a rocket when he hears Edward Arnold yell "Come and Get It!" Highly stereotypical but most all of them looked ridiculous.
Stepin Fetchit is also parodied in "Mother Goose Goes Hollywood" -- he's in the pie along with Cab Calloway and Fats Waller and says "What boy?" and is also the world's laziest man again (with Fred Astaire) who says "Get along little dogies, get along" as his feet give off smoke and he runs out of energy.
Partnerfrance, John Barrymore, Hugh Herbert, Edna May Oliver, Greta Garbo, and George Raft are the pea eaters. Then Ned Sparks mixing together a mess of hot sauces and Katherine Hepburn eating celery -- she was a famous vegetarian. Martha Raye is the singer, with Eddie Cantor and Clark Gable watching.
3:04 who is he?!
Capybaraism Step'n Fetchit.
0:21 what is this music?
5:03 Greta Garbo
Sengchanthra Yes, that's her. Well she may talk in English like that, but She is actually from Stockholm, Sweden. So she's Swedish-American.
They got the Stooges right
I LOVE these old school classic cartoons,they almost ALWAYS, have a bit of business you miss. For example , W. C. Fields selling the SAME Hot Dog, repeatedly! Makes you look closer the NEXT time.. However, the blatant racism DOES detract from a COMPLETELY enjoyable experience! You win some, you lose some, I guess! And, EVERYTHING was alive, before Marvel or DC comics ever thought of them, like AI, there was everything from Living Planets, to intelligent cars, WAY before futurists, and, fantasy writers, EVER, thought of then.
What are the music when they're eating :v
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06:06 horror face
Did Sid Marcus and Art Davis go on to work on the Pink Panther cartoons in the 60s and 70s?
Yup.
Here's a minor (morning) mystery for all concerned. Let's say Fannie Brice appears at 1:09. Does she say, "I don't know" in Yiddish?
why can't they make cartoons like this any more.
this is funny.
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tha tha tha tha tha tha tha that's all Muggles!
tha tha tha tha tha tha tha that's all Earthlings!
fade out to black.
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hope they cooked that chicken properly, they wouldn't want a bad case of Salmonella Fitzgerald.
Screen Gems made their money doing Cartoons first before Television.
A subtle depiction of the violence of the 1930s
Boy, this really makes you realize the scheiss we've been subjected to since these were made. Unfortunately, The Simpsons too!
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