Hello my friends and happy Saturday Morning. This Saturday marks my last post to be comprised of Christmas cartoons. Don't feel bad I have some good ones picked out for you today.
First is a classic I am sure many of you are familiar with but it is always a delight to see again. This is Max Fleischer's version of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer (1948).This film was released after the Fleischer studio had been replaced by Famous Studios. Instead of making this cartoon for his own studio Max made it for the Jam Handy Studio, which mostly did advertising films and Army training films.
Next is a video called Hanna Barbera Christmas Sing a Long (1989). This video is comprised of Christmas carols you can sing a long with as well as clips from animated Hanna-Barbera movies and shows. Also there are some live action clips featuring Bill and Joe and some kids. So enjoy and remember I want to hear you all singing.
Next comes a classic Silly Symphony cartoon, Broken Toys (1935). This delightful film has a master class of Disney legends working on it. This short movie was directed by Ben Sharpsteen, who would later be the supervising director for such Disney features as Pinocchio (1940) and Dumbo (1941). The animation on this cartoon was brought to us by some of the greatest animators to ever work at Disney including Art Babbitt, Woolie Reitherman (who would become one of Walt's Nine Old Men), Bill Tytla (my favorite Disney animator), Grim Natwick and Dick Huemer. Like in many of the cartoons of this era the characters were based off of character actors that appeared in many live action movies of the same time. The actors caricatured here include Ned Sparks, ZaSu Pitts, W.C. Fields (all mostly animated by Babbitt) and Stepin Fetchit (mostly animated by Bill Tytla). Like many Silly Symphonies this movie is very sentimental while never feeling forced. Due to its Christmas themed it was pushed up to get a Christmas release. Three Little Wolves (1936) and Elmer Elephant (1936) were both made to be released first but were pushed back until the next year so that Broken Toys could be released by Christmas time.
I know Christmas is getting too commercial, but I still want to share this Christmas commercial starring The Flintstones.
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Now let us finish with a song.
Thank you for joining me come back next week for some non-Christmas themed animated treasures.
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