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.

115 Her Honor the Mare

Title: Her Honor the Mare
Studio: Famous
Date: 11/26/43
Credits:
Direction:
I. Sparber
Animation:
Jim Tyer
Ben Solomon
Story:
Jack Mercer
Jack Ward
Series: Popeye
Running time (of viewed version): 7:04 (2 seconds intro)
Commercial DVD Availability: -

Synopsis: Broken down horse is adopted by nephews, opposed for being in the house by noted sailor.






















Comments: And we're out of official Popeye releases. Which makes for a more difficult sourcing than you'd expect. I've opted for YouTube, which is of course not especially good, but it is nevertheless a functional solution. Silhouette title card. Glue factory won't take the horse (which is ridiculous because it has HUGE hooves). Denim blue suit on Popeye. Although as this is not exactly a color correct way of viewing this, that may be erroneous. Hitler is the horses ass (tho Who's a Horses Ass played for the horse earlier). WooWoo Magazine has a woman's legs on it. Shrunken head (hello, Carbunkle). Inside the asylum. For some reason, you have to keep a horse when it suddely drops a litter. Which _is_ unusual, as horses pretty much give birth to one at a time. And I saw the four nephews on a pale horse, and their name was death... Popeye is in drag briefly. Fake horse full of sailors; which would make Popeye a son of Ilium.

Below is a drawing that whatever the source was said was from the cartoon; I didn't note in the name where it was from, so maybe it wasn't from Howard Lowery or Van Eaton Galleries. Also I didn't screencap a rocking horse image; that's because looking at the cartoon, there isn't one. The drawing makes sense in the scee where the horse has taken Popeye's shirt; a ricking chair had been involved, so it's an obvious place to go. But based on the viewed print, this is not in the cartoon.

BoxOffice, November 20, 1943

Yowp / Fibber Fox has provided the following:

Boxoffice November 20, 1943

Pg 40-C

Disney Museum Trustee

New York—Walt Disney has been named a trustee of the Museum of Modern Art. Other new trustees appointed are William A. M. Burden, Henry Allen Moe and Mrs. George Henry Warren jr.

Disney was one of the first sponsors of the museum and one of the first to donate his films to its collections.

Pg. 41

Contest to Name Lantz’s New Girl Character

Walter Lantz, producer of Universal’s Cartunes, has launched a contest among the country’s exhibitors to select a name for his new glamour girl character who debuts in the Technicolor briefie, “The Greatest Man in Siam.” A $100 war bond will be awarded the winner of the contest, which began November 11 and will run for a month. Judges are Bernie Kriesler, short subjects sales head; John Joseph, director of publicity and advertising for the company, and Lantz. The new character will be used regularly in Lantz’ “Swing Symphony” series.

Pg. 44

STUDIO PERSONNELITIES

Briefies

Universal

Walter Lantz has ticketed LEE SWEETLAND, radio and opera singer, for “Beach Nut.” Woody Woodpecker Cartune.

Showmandisder Pg. 14

SHORTS REVIEWS

The Cocky Bantam

Columbia (Phantasy Cartoon) 6½ Mins.

Good. Travesty at its best is contained in this Dave Fleischer-produced cartoon. It is timely, too, for it carries with it a moral, showing what happens when a Falcon buys a chicken on the black market. A Jap is the seller. The fowl turns out to be an FBI agent in disguise and both the Falcon and the Jap are tossed into the hoosegow. There are plenty of laughs in this footage for young and old.

Daffy the Commando

WB (Looney Tunes) 7 Mins.

Tops. Daffy Duck, the wackiest character ever dreamed up by the creative genius of the cartoonist’s art, gets himself mixed up with von Vulture, a German general, in No Man’s Land. Daffy does what any patriotic American would do if he got the chance. He gives the Nazi vulture and his fawning stooge what they deserve, then goes calling on the fuehrer. The cartoon is a wow. It has snappy pace, ample comedy situations and characters that are extremely funny.

Inki and the Minah Bird

WB (Merrie Melodies Cartoon) 7 Mins

Very Good. This subject is notable for the reappearance of the cartoon character, the Minah Bird, which appeared in several previous Merrie Melodies and has been absent much too long. This critter is a pantomimist who can cook up the screwiest schemes in alliance with Inki to cope with the lion. Film audiences certainly would like to see many more of this little fellow’s antics in this or any other series.

The Phantom Chapter 12

http://www.archive.org/details/ThePhantom1943Serial-15Chapters

Go to chapter 12.

The Fangs of the Beast.

Silhouette shot.
Two guns.
Did people not know what gorillas look like? (Incidentally, gorilla=Africa; I guess the phantom's realm is vast).

Abbott & Costello & Bugs & Lucy

November 18, 1943, Mel Blanc was on the Abbott and Costello radio show as Bugs Bunny.

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/classic/abbott-and-costello-meets-bugs-bunny-lucille-ball-1943.html

114 Home Defense

1943 Number: 114
Title: Home Defense
Studio: Disney
Date: 11/26/43
Credits:
Series: Donald Duck
Running time (of viewed version): 7:47
Commercial DVD Availability: OTFL/Dv2

Synopsis: Someone foolishly put Donald in an unsupervised war related job; he foreseeably screws it up.















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Comments: Nice title card, but the black letters under white outlines seem strange. Donald is no longer in the army, but is on the home front. Are Huey, Dewey and Louie's hats some sort of 19th century or earlier European gear? Panoply of period guns in the makeshift anti aircraft. Should civilians have been making decisions on whether to shoot at aircraft at home? I wonder why they don't show the swords being broken (unless it's a cut gag about Don's leg getting mangled). Is there an explanation for Donald's one fist straight one fist moving technique?

Four cartoons released this day; pretty busy. For the holidays?