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1931 In Animation
Events in 1931 in animation. Films released * 2 January – '' The Birthday Party'' (United States) * 6 January – ''Ace of Spades'' (United States) * 11 January - ''Popcorn'' (United States) * 12 January – ''China'' (United States) * 19 January – '' Big Man from the North'' (United States) * 25 January: ** ''Circus Time'' (United States) ** ''Club Sandwich'' (United States) * 28 January – ''College'' (United States) * 31 January: ** ''The Soup Song'' (United States) ** ''The Village Smitty'' (United States) * February – '' Ain't Nature Grand!'' (United States) * 7 February – ''Teacher's Pest'' (United States) * 8 February – ''Razzberries'' (United States) * 9 February – ''Shipwreck'' (United States) * 10 February – '' Birds of a Feather'' (United States) * 13 February – ''Rodeo Dough'' (United States) * 21 February – ''Tree Saps'' (United States) * 22 February - ''Go West, Big Boy'' (United States) * 25 February - ''The Milkman'' (United States) * 7 March – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Birthday Party (1931 Film)
''The Birthday Party'' is a Mickey Mouse short animated film first released on January 2, 1931, as part of the ''Mickey Mouse'' film series. It was the twenty-fifth Mickey Mouse short to be produced, the first of that year. Plot Minnie Mouse throws a surprise birthday party for Mickey, and he is surrounded by a circle of friends singing and dancing his praises. A pig chef offers him a birthday cake, but Mickey blows so hard that all of the cake ends up on the pig's face. Mickey opens his present—a small piano, to match Minnie's -- and the two mice play and sing "I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby". Then they play "Darktown Strutters' Ball" as the guests dance. After a while, the piano stools take over, and Mickey and Minnie dance as well. Horace Horsecollar and Clarabelle Cow also have a spirited dance break. Heading to the xylophone, Mickey plays "Home! Sweet Home!" and then accompanies Minnie on "Twelfth Street Rag". The xylophone gets excited and Mickey ends up ridin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Country School (1931 Film)
Country School is a 1931 animated short film by Walter Lantz Productions and stars Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (also known as Oswald the Rabbit or Oswald Rabbit) is a cartoon character created in 1927 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks for Universal Pictures. He starred in several animated short films released to theaters from 1927 to 19 .... Plot Oswald and his girlfriend Kitty are going to school, but are late. The teacher later plays a song for all of the students, but a hippo blows a raspberry at the teacher and puts a balloon in Oswald's shorts, so the teacher smacks Oswald, at which the balloon burst. The teacher announces that school is dismissed, then finally everyone runs back home. References Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons 1931 animated films 1931 films 1930s American animated films Universal Pictures animated short films Films set in schools Animated films about cats American black-and-white films 1930s English-language films {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tree's Knees
''The Tree's Knees'' is a 1931 one-reel short subject featuring Bosko, part of the '' Looney Tunes'' series. It was released in August 1931 and is directed by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising, the last cartoon in the series to be directed by the two. Every ''Looney Tunes'' cartoon after this was directed by Hugh Harman until 1933, and every ''Merrie Melodies'' cartoon was directed by Rudolf Ising until the aforementioned year. It is also the last Bosko cartoon to not feature the main character's (Bosko's) name in the title. The short is also notable for the extensive use of footage from the earlier short ''Ain't Nature Grand!'' that it reuses, in particular a scene of Bosko happily and innocently pursuing a butterfly. The film score was composed by Frank Marsales Frank Alfred Marsales (31 August 188614 August 1975) was a Canadian composer best known for his work scoring many classic animated films by Warner Bros. Cartoons in the 1930s. He also worked with Walter Lantz Studi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bimbo's Initiation
''Bimbo's Initiation'' is a 1931 Fleischer Studios Talkartoon animated short film starring Bimbo and featuring an early version of Betty Boop with a dog's ears and nose. It was the final Betty Boop cartoon to be animated by the character's co-creator, Grim Natwick. Plot Bimbo is walking down the street when he suddenly disappears down an open manhole, and is subsequently locked down there by a mouse who resembles Mickey Mouse. He lands in the underground clubhouse of a secret society. The leader asks Bimbo if he would like to be a member, but Bimbo refuses and is sent through a series of dangerous events. He is repeatedly asked by the leader to join their society, but keeps refusing. Bimbo is brought through a series of mysterious doors that lead him into yet another sub-basement. Bimbo flees through various death traps before landing in front of the mysterious order's leader again. Bimbo still refuses to become a member, but finally accepts the invitation when the leader reveals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bosko's Holiday
''Bosko's Holiday'' is a one-reel 1931 short subject animated cartoon, part of the '' Bosko'' series. It was directed by Hugh Harman, and first released on July 18, 1931 as part of the '' Looney Tunes'' series from the Leon Schlesinger animation studio and distributed by Warner Brothers. The film score was composed by Frank Marsales. Plot The cartoon opens with the phone ringing loudly, while Bosko is sleeping. The anthropomorphic telephone can't get its owner to wake up no matter how insistently it rings, since he is a heavy sleeper. It then turns its attention to an anthropomorphic alarm clock sleeping nearby, snoring with a "tick tock" sound. So the phone wakes up the alarm clock, so it can wake Bosko up. The alarm clock also has trouble waking up Bosko. He does not respond to its own ringing with bell-like sounds, nor to it hitting a brush against the bedpan. The alarm clock finally pokes him in the bottom with one of its pointy hands, waking him up. He wakes up screamin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Stone Age (film)
''The Stone Age'' is a 1931 short animated film by Walter Lantz Productions and one of many featuring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Plot Everybody is a caveman, but while they wear animal hide, they also wear shoes that are rather modern day in style. Oswald is riding outdoors on a wooden scooter, looking for a girl to date with. He then comes to a house with an escalator resembling a dinosaur with fins. Coming down to him is a girl kitty in high heeled pumps. While they walk together for a few seconds, a big bear sneaks from beside, and pounds the girl kitty in the head with a club. Instead of lying unconscious, the kitty falls in love with the bear who takes her away and Oswald is quite surprised. Oswald learns that a girl would adore a guy who bashes her in the head. He then goes around some more to find another date. When Oswald attempts to pound someone, another guy tricks him not to do so, and therefore uses the trick to pound and win that girl. In another attempt, Oswald mana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mickey Steps Out
''Mickey Mouse'' (originally known as ''Mickey Mouse Sound Cartoons'') is a series of American animated comedy short films produced by Walt Disney Productions. The series started in 1928 with Steamboat Willie and ended in 1953 with ''The Simple Things''. Four additional shorts were released between 1983 and 2013. The series is notable for its innovation with sound synchronization and character animation, and also introduced well-known characters such as Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Pluto and Goofy. The name "Mickey Mouse" was first used in the films' title sequences to refer specifically to the character, but was used from 1935 to 1953 to refer to the series itself as in "Walt Disney presents a Mickey Mouse." In this sense "a Mickey Mouse" was a shortened form of "a Mickey Mouse sound cartoon" which was used in the earliest films. Films from 1929 to 1935 which were re-released during this time also used this naming convention, but it was not used for the three shorts released ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
