130 The Marry-Go-Round

Title: The Marry-Go-Round
Studio: Famous
Date: 12/31/43
Credits:
Direction:
Seymour Kneitel
Animation:
Graham Place
Abner Kneitel
Story:
Joe Stultz
Series: Popeye
Running time (of viewed version): 7:58
Commercial DVD Availability: -

Synopsis: Love and murder and a washing machine.

























Comments: Nice looking title card. Opening image; kinda looks like Bette Davis, but while she's ugly, she's not that ugly. I assume a Paramount star. Sig says Dottie. Maybe Dorothy Lamour? Tough looking whistling sailor. Don't ask don't tell: Shorty and Popeye kiss. Cool background iris transition that only transitions the background. Industrial danger music. My grandfather hated the wringers on washing machines for the same reason Popeye must have. French impression (Charles Boyer?). Odd but cool shot choice on eyes are limid pools. Olive hairection (which looks like a black Playboy bunny rotated 120 degrees counterclockwise). Olive apparently went to Drag U. Silhouette. Olive seems to have Deniro's southern accent from Cape Fear. Shorty has his lips on Olive's chest. And he has a tongue like a '39 Lantz heroine. Popeye apparently kills Olive and puts her corpse in the washing machine, and the year ends with Shorty bound and disgusted.

The last Famous, the last Popeye and the last cartoon overall for 1943. And it was sourced from YouTube.

127 Eggs Don't Bounce

Title: Eggs Don't Bounce
Studio: Famous
Date: 12/24/43
Credits:
by Marge
from
The Saturday Evening Post
Direction
I. Sparber
Story by
Carl Meyer
Jack Mercer
Jack Ward
Aniation
Nick Tafuri
Joe Oriolo
Tom Golden
John Walworth
Musical Arrangement
Sammy Timberg
Scenics
Robert Little
Series: Little Lulu
Running time (of viewed version): 8:52
Commercial DVD Availability: -

Synopsis: Adventures in egg obtaining.


















Comments: Extensive credits, but tv versions. To cover the theme song I guess. Eyes to mouth. Very unfortunate mammy in this, with retro inverse-Homer muzzle. Late in the game for such a throwback design. Due to Marge's own character designs? Bunch of tandom (ed.: I think I meant random, not tandem) opening gags. Then the egg section. I think Lulu does not look as good as Little Audrey. Kinda like Olive Oyl and Charlie Brown's kid. Interesting surreal section. Santa appearance. Lulu does in fact speak. Very long, without much content. Very late Chaplin reference. Little Lulu in black face (and ethnic accent). Oof. Lulu seems like she has no emotions most of the time. Blank eyes and usually no mouth. Eggs apparently came in a sack in 1943. I thought people used baskets. Egg based Veronica Lake caricature. Devil eggs as a visual pun?

116 No Mutton Fer Nuttin'

Title: No Mutton Fer Nuttin'
Studio: Famous
Date: 11/26/43
Credits:
Animation:
Dave Tendlar John Walworth
Story:
Carl Meyer
Musical Arrangement:
Sammy Timberg
Series: Noveltoons (the first one). Blackie the Lamb (likewise, I think)
Running time (of viewed version): 7:38
Commercial DVD Availability: - (600 Cartoon Disc 7)

Synopsis: Black sheep is strong against wolf, white sheep not so much.
























Comments: Same release date as Her Honor the Mare, the first release day after a long break related to the move from Florida back to NY. Open on a sign. The prices on meat were, I suppose high; $1 per pound for chicken, $2/lb for beef, lamb chops $10/lb. The price on lamb is slightly more than current actual prices for regular chops, but the other prices are less than actual current prices (barring a sale). Why do wolves always have to have the same outfit? Struggling for weapons. Black sheep with dice. Wolf word shows up. Wolf twisting around the tree looks interesting enough. Underwater hot foot. Water skin. Blackie's dice cheat. Last wish is to smoke. This would not be allowed now of course. Extended shot of a house burning down. Avery esque extension beyond the closing iris. And a war reference for scrap metal. I don't know why the wolf isn't ecstatic for a tire in a sack; I'd think he could trade it for mucho meat.

Thunderbean animation is about to, or already has, depending on when you read this, release(d) a Noveltoons disc. Not with this cartoon tho.