059 He Can't Make It Stick

Title: He Can't Make It Stick
Studio: Columbia
Date: 06/11/43 (possibly listed in later BoxOffices as 7/23)
Credits: - (supposedly directed by Paul Sommer and John Hubley)
Series: (Color Rhapsody supposedly)
Running time (of viewed version): 7:07
Commercial DVD Availability: -

Synopsis: An (allegory?) of Hitler as a wallpaper hanger who an't make it stick.
















Comments: I do not have all the video to view of this cartoon. It is about Hitler. So I guess it got un-/less used in tv, so now we have an issue. We've got the audio tho. Lot of trash talking in the beginning of the cartoon. Hitler is voiced by the Goofy narrator. Hitler marries a zoftig Gunhild type. Hitler is ghostly pale. They reproduce; the honeymoon has the sound of gunshots. 2 of the kids (one of whom looks like a young George Liquor) imprison/kill the kid who disagrees. There's lots of fake German (I think; but it could just be very accented English, like the stuff I can understand). Everyone is saying the Nazi wallpaper won't stick (or at least that "he will never make it stick"). Then it just goes on in a fevered way, and some ends up sticking on a pig. It's confusing and unpleasant. Why is Hitler in high heels with a beret and a cigarette?

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"Jerry Beck
09-05-2002, 03:16 PM
HE CAN'T MAKE IT STICK is a classic - and it may be a lost classic.

When we were preparing TOTALLY TOONED IN, we located the soundtrack and 2/3rds of the picture (the latter 2/3rds) in Columbias vaults. So Columbia has an incomplete version at present.

It's the only print of it I've ever seen. Milt Gross designed the characters. Hitler is the star. Very bizzarre in that Columbia way."

BoxOffice June 5, 1943

BoxOffice June 5, 1943

p21
"Moscow"

in

Cartoon

Much debated Mission

Moscow"

was the subject of a cartoon on the front page of the Kansas City Star last week. Watching the picture in a theatre are Uncle Sam. an American business man. Joe Stalin, the Russian people and Adolf Hitler. In the background a Stalinite and a Trotskyite are fighting.

One

of the Russians

it

is

say-

"Anyway,

shows why we

fight,"


while Hitler is remarking, "If I'd seen earlier viaybe I wouldn't have tried

to invade

them."


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p25
""North Atlantic" -"Popeye" Cash in on "Puck" Plugs

New York Warner's "Action in the North Atlantic" and Paramount's "Popeye" are getting a terrific break in fullpage ads being inserted in dailies in a number of key cities by King Features Syndicate as a plug for Puck, its comic

weekly. The idea of the ads is to convince editors that Puck has the same boxoffice power that Humphrey Bogart packs. "What Bogart is to the movies Popeye is to that nationwide 'Picture-Page-Thea" tre audience Puck the Comic Weekly.' the ads read. It so happens that Popeye is one of the cartoon features carried in the weekly. Warner agreed to the tieup and quarter page stills of Bogart in the uniform of a merchant ship captain are included in the"
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p29
"New York Six more shorts remain to be released on the 20th Century-Pox list for 1942-43. These include two March of Time subjects, two Terrytoon cartoons in technicolor and two special Movietonews short features."

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p34
Merrie Melodies' Reissues Bolster Schlesinger Setup Leon Schlesinger, cartoon maker for Warner distribution, has announced that 13

of his best "Merrie Melodies" will be re-issued during the 1943-44 season to aug-

ment

liis

production schedule which was

recently cut from a normal 39 to 26."

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p34
"Dave Biedermann, vice-president of Cartoon Mlms, Ltd.. producers of short subjects for Columbia, is being visited by his son, Lieut. Paul Biedermann, home on furlough after having received his commission at Yale University as instructor in radio and communications in the army air force. Following his furlough. Lieutenant Biedermann reports to the air base at Roswell, N. M., where he will be stationed

temporarily"
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p(showmandizer)
"Greeting Bait

Vitaphone (Merrie Melodies) 7 Mins. Very Good. Ludicrous, indeed, is this cartoon featuring Jerry Colonna Worm, which is designed to tickle the funny-bone of the most exacting of audiences. This time, the mustachioed worm is trained fishing bait used by a smart fisherman to lure the reluctant quarry. The worm almost gets caught himself but he talks himself out of many an embarrassing

predicament, all to the accompaniment robust laughter from the customers."

"Red Hot Riding Hood

M-G-M

(Cartoon)

8

pitchafter

Mins
Sophisticated Comedy. Red Riding Hood and the wolf are put into a night club setting she as a torch singer and he as a man-about-town on the make. He winds up in the apartment of man-hungry grandma, v/ith some fantastic stunts, while he is trying to escape. It is designed more for adult than child appeal."

"The Lonesome Mouse

M-G-M

(Cartoon)

8 Mins.

Amusing. Particularly entertaining because it reverses the role of hunter and hunted in the case of the mouse and cat. "

058 Who Killed Who?

Title: Who Killed Who?
Studio: MGM
Date: 06/05/43
Credits:
Directed by
Tex Avery
Series:
Running time (of viewed version): 7:58
Commercial DVD Availability: - (French Tex Avery set)

Synopsis: A melodramatic murder mystery is performed in the Tex Avery style.






























Comments: Live action open and close (with Robert Emmett O'Connor, from such movies as Public Enemy, the Marx Brothers' A Night At The Opera and Sunset Boulevard; he died from injuries from a fire in 1962). Background shadows. Text jokes. Extreme accent on the victim. BooooLova instead of Bulova. Big gun. While very illustrative of many kinds of Avery jokes, it's not exactly the best execution of them. The organ music may hurt the overall feel, too. Self reflexive theater joke with a silhouette. Very WB looking for an Avery MGM cartoon, but then this is early in his tenure. A painting of Red Hot Riding Hood (more or less). The eyes being independent of their body is a good and interesting bit in the way it is pulled off. The famous unending series of butler bodies. Red Skeleton reference to Red Skelton. Lots of gunplay. Santa Claus appearance. The detective has too many takes; I think it's wrong for his base character.

Coming SNAFU

Title: Coming!! SNAFU
Studio: WB / US Government
Date: 06/XX/43
Credits: - (Directed by Chuck Jones)
Series: Private SNAFU
Running time (of viewed version): 2:59
Commercial DVD Availability: LTGC Volume 5, Disc 3, Private Snafu Golden Classics

Synopsis: Basically an extended coming attraction for the SNAFU cartoons.












Comments: A cartoon that flirts with "fucked" but wusses out in favor of "fouled". The familiar "you're in the army now" refrain. Remember, that's "you're in the army now, you're not behind a plow, you're digging a ditch, you son of a bitch, you're in the army now". Sexy hosiery poster. Some stills to save on work. Stripper's kinda ugly. "Who's a horse's ass" with a real ugly horse. The humor comes from the way you have no rights after you've been enslaved by the army!

I'm using what I had briefly thought was the dating in the Private SNAFU Golden Classics notes for this and the rest of the SNAFU shorts; the months all jibe with what I had expected, but I had thought the collection provided days instead of simply months; this was from misreading issue numbers as days. Since the days are still an open question (and I'm still not sure what the months signify exactly), the placement in the timeline is no more or less likely to be right based on my current information.