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1933 In Animation
Events in 1933 in animation. Films released *2 January – ''Merry Dog'' (United States) *6 January: **''Betty Boop's Ker-Choo'' (United States) **''Tight Rope Tricks'' (United States) *7 January: **''Building a Building'' (United States) **''The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives'' (United States) *8 January - ''Jealous Lover'' (United States) *10 January – ''Wedding Bells (1933 film), Wedding Bells'' (United States) *16 January – ''The Plumber (1933 film), The Plumber'' (United States) *21 January: **''Coo Coo the Magician'' (United States) **''The Mad Doctor (1933 film), The Mad Doctor'' (United States) *22 January - ''Robin Hood'' (United States) *25 January – ''Sassy Cats'' (United States) *27 January – ''Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions'' (United States) *30 January – ''The Terrible Troubadour'' (United States) *3 February – ''Magic Mummy'' (United States) *5 February - ''Hansel and Gretel'' (United States) *7 February – ''The Medicine Show (film), The Medicine Sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merry Dog
''Merry Dog'' is a 1933 short animated film by Walter Lantz Productions and is the sixth of the Pooch the Pup theatrical cartoons. Plot It is Christmas time and Santa Claus flies across the evening sky in his reindeer-drawn sleigh. Down on the snowy terrain, Pooch rides on a dachshund-pulled sled, and sings a jazzy version of the song ''Jingle Bells''. On the way, a hungry husky spots and starts to pursue the dog. Pooch arrives at a house. Opening the door and letting him in is his friend the girl coonhound. The husky also arrives just outside but struggles to get in. Inside the house, Pooch recites the poem ''A Visit from St. Nicholas''. A rat in a hole appears to be bothered by some words in the poem, and therefore comes out to play. The rat's play then disturbs a cat which resulted a chase. While still struggling to get in the house, the husky notices the sleigh of Santa Claus landing nearby. The husky captures and ties up Santa. The husky then dons Santa's clothes and beard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Father Noah's Ark
''Father Noah's Ark'' is a 1933 Walt Disney ''Silly Symphonies'' animated film. It is based on the story of Noah's Ark. The short's musical score is an adaptation of the first dance in Ludwig van Beethoven's ''12 Contredanses''. The cartoon was released on April 8, 1933. Plot The short begins with the building of the Ark. Father Noah makes the plans of the ark and gives commands to its construction. His sons, Ham, Shem and Japheth "build the ark from dawn to dark and make a lot of noise" with some help from the animals, while their wives load up food supplies to see them through the flood and Noah's wife is washing clothes. Eventually, the storm rolls in and the animals are summoned, two-by-two, to the ark, purposely leaving two skunks behind. The ark is soon buffeted around by the storm and the ark's occupants praise to the Lord. At one point, Noah gets rainwater leaking through the ceiling in his mouth and has to open a porthole to spit it out, whereupon he is chased by a st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Like Mountain Music
''I Like Mountain Music'' is a 1933 Warner Bros. ''Merrie Melodies'' cartoon directed by Rudolf Ising. The short was released on June 14, 1933. This cartoon is a follow-up to the 1932 short '' Three's a Crowd'', in which literary characters came to life and stepped off their book covers. In this film, the characters on magazine covers come to life. Plot At night, the magazines at a drugstore come to life and put on a show. However, the man on the crime magazine seizes the opportunity to rob the cash. Now it's up to the sleuths of the detective magazine to catch him. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, among others, follow their trail. Celebrity cameos include Edward G. Robinson, who is inside the pages of a crime magazine. Will Rogers comes in, twirling a lasso, and delivers his trademark line, "All I know is just what I read in the papers." Comedian Ed Wynn appears in an ad for "Vexico Quick-Exploding Gasoline" while Eddie Cantor takes off the beard of a violinist to reveal he' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bosko's Knight-Mare
''Bosko's Knight-Mare'' is a 1933 ''Looney Tunes'' animated short film featuring Bosko, the first star of the series. The film was directed by Hugh Harman. The film score was composed by Frank Marsales. Summary Bosko falls asleep while reading about medieval chivalry, and dreams that he's one of King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table, along with caricatures of the Marx Brothers, Jimmy Durante, Laurel and Hardy Laurel and Hardy were a British-American Double act, comedy duo act during the early Classical Hollywood cinema, Classical Hollywood era of American cinema, consisting of Englishman Stan Laurel (1890–1965) and American Oliver Hardy (1892–19 ..., and Mahatma Gandhi. The villainous Black Knight kidnaps Honey, and Bosko rides to the rescue. The dream ends as Bosko chops up a suit of armor, then jumps back into bed. References External links * 1933 films 1933 animated films American black-and-white films Films about dreams Films about kidnapping Fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Boop's Big Boss
''Betty Boop's Big Boss'' is a 1933 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop. It is now in the public domain. Plot An anthropomorphic pig puts an ad up for an employment ("Girl Wanted--Top Floor--Female Preferred"), and then walks off with the ladder strolling behind him. Betty walks by and responds to the ad along with an enormous group of fellow applicants. When the interviewing manager asks Betty what she can do, Betty replies in song that she can't type or take dictation, but that she can provide other benefits Benefit or benefits may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media * ''Benefit'' (album), by Jethro Tull, 1970 * "Benefits" (''How I Met Your Mother''), a 2009 TV episode * '' The Benefit'', a 2012 Egyptian action film Businesses and organisatio .... The businessman sends the other applicants away via a trap door, and hires Betty. Betty is happy with her new job, but the boss soon makes unwanted advances toward his employee. Scared, Betty calls ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Little Pigs (film)
''Three Little Pigs'' is an animated short film released on May 25, 1933 by United Artists, produced by Walt Disney and directed by Burt Gillett. Based on the fable of the same name, the ''Silly Symphony'' won the 1934 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film of 1933. The short cost $22,000 and grossed $250,000. In 1994, it was voted #11 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field. In 2007, ''Three Little Pigs'' was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". ''Three Little Pigs'' premiered at the Radio City Music Hall as a short subject to Radio City's release of the First National Pictures film ''Elmer, the Great'' on May 25, 1933, in New York City. Plot Fifer Pig, Fiddler Pig and Practical Pig are three brothers who build their own houses. All three of them play a different kind of musical instrument – Fifer the flute, Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wake Up The Gypsy In Me
''Wake Up the Gypsy in Me'' is a 1933 Warner Bros. ''Merrie Melodies'' animated short, directed by Rudolf Ising and based on the title song written by Lew Lehr, Harry Miller and Lew Pollack. The short was released on May 13, 1933. Plot The plot concerns a village of Russian Gypsies, led by a caricature of jazz bandleader Paul Whiteman, generally singing, dancing and whooping it up, including a quartet of men who gurgle beer to the tune of " The Song of the Volga Boatmen." When the mad monk Rice-Puddin' (a caricature of Grigori Rasputin Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (; rus, links=no, Григорий Ефимович Распутин ; – ) was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, thus g ...) casts his eye on one of the apparently underage girls in the village and has her abducted in an attempt to force himself upon her, the villagers revolt and rescue the girl and give Rice-Puddin' ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Boop's May Party
''Betty Boop's May Party'' is a 1933 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop, and featuring Koko the Clown and Bimbo. Plot An elephant punctures a rubber tree, whose spraying sap turns the whole town rubbery. Betty and the gang use their newfound limberness to dance and sing. In the film, Betty sings "Here We Are", written by Harry Warren Harry Warren (born Salvatore Antonio Guaragna; December 24, 1893 – September 22, 1981) was an American composer and the first major American songwriter to write primarily for film. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song ... and Gus Kahn. References External links ''Betty Boop's May Party'' on YouTube''Betty Boop's May Party'' at IMDB 1933 films Betty Boop cartoons 1930s American animated films American black-and-white films 1933 animated films Paramount Pictures short films Fleischer Studios short films Short films directed by Dave Fleischer {{BettyBoop-animation-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Techno-Cracked
''Techno-Cracked'' is a 1933 Celebrity Productions, Inc. animated short, directed by Ub Iwerks and featuring Flip the Frog. Synopsis In this satire of the Technocracy, Flip the Frog is nearly killed by a menacing robot he builds to work for him. Flip would rather not mow the lawn. He reads an article from "Unpopular Mechanics" entitled "Technocracy: Why be a Slave - The Mechanical Man Works While You Sleep". Flip makes his robot out of household parts but gives it a Jack-o'-lantern for a head. The mechanical man cannot follow directions and begins mowing down everything in sight. Flip blows up the robot with a stick of dynamite and finishes the lawn by himself. Notes and comments When the robot mows the welcome mat it reveals the word Nerts, a possible reference to either the card game or to a popular expression of the time -- "nertz". Some have speculated that Techno-Cracked may have been photographed in two-strip Technicolor Technicolor is a series of Color motion pictur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Dressing (cartoon)
''Russian Dressing'' is a 1933 short theatrical cartoon by Columbia Pictures, featuring Krazy Kat. Plot Krazy is on a horse-drawn sleigh, riding through the countryside, and playing a balalaika. He then stops at a house and sings the Russian song '' Dark Eyes'' to serenade someone. Coming out of the house is Krazy's spaniel girlfriend. They would then walk around and sing the song together. Krazy and the spaniel enter the house, which turns out to be a tavern, where they do the Cossack dance Hopak ( uk, гопа́к, ) is a Ukrainian folk dance originating as a male dance among the Zaporozhian Cossacks, but later danced by couples, male soloists, and mixed groups of dancers. It is performed most often as a solitary concert dance by .... It is a pleasant experience for them. Meanwhile, a hefty hog drinks an entire bottle of vodka, thus becoming intoxicated and psychologically corrupted. The hog nabs Krazy and tells him to blow up "the palace" with a round black bomb. Kraz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Boop's Birthday Party
''Betty Boop's Birthday Party'' is a 1933 Fleischer Studio animated short film, starring Betty Boop and featuring Koko the Clown and Bimbo. Plot It's Betty's birthday, but she's in the kitchen washing dishes and wishing she had a man. Betty's pals, including Bimbo and Koko, throw her a party. Yet after two men have a scuffle with a fish, the entire party gets into a fight, leaving the entire party a mess. In the end, Betty rows away with George Washington George Washington (February 22, 1732, 1799) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Continental Congress as commander of th .... References External links ''Betty Boop's Birthday Party'' at the Big Cartoon Database''Betty Boop's Birthday Party'' at IMDb''Betty Boop's Birthday Party''on YouTube 1933 films Betty Boop cartoons 1930s American animated films Articles containing video clips Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Broadway Malady
''The Broadway Malady'' is a 1933 short animated film distributed by Columbia Pictures, and stars Krazy Kat. The title is derived from the 1929 feature film ''The Broadway Melody'', but the cartoon makes no references to the feature film. Plot At a subway station, Krazy tries to get a ride on a train. Before he could get aboard, numerous commuters come and quickly fill the carriages. By the time the commuters are in, Krazy is flat on his front. A station worker tries to help him by pushing those inside to make more space. As Krazy attempts to come in, he is overtaken by more outside commuters. The jam-packed train leaves the station. Another train stops by moments later. This time Krazy chews some garlic pieces and blows a cloud wall which keeps the incoming commuters at bay. With this, Krazy boards the train with ease, but as he takes a seat, the commuters quickly come in until Krazy gets pushed out the door. Thankfully the station worker is generous to slip him back in. Krazy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |