The Cobweb Hotel

The Cobweb Hotel
The Cobweb Hotel
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Directed by	Dave Fleischer
Produced by	Max Fleischer
Starring	Jack Mercer (uncredited)
Music by	Sammy Timberg; Bob Rothberg
Animation by	David Tendlar; William Strum
Production; company	Fleischer Studios
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	May 15, 1936;
Running time	8 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Cobweb Hotel is a 1936 American short film directed by Dave Fleischer and Max Fleischer and is one of the short films that belongs to the Color Classics film series. Animated by David Tendlar and William Sturm^[1] The setting is said to be one of the Fleischer's desks, which the spider used to open the hoax hotel.^[2]

Plot

The cartoon starts off with a devious spider (voiced by Jack Mercer) who holds many fly captives in the rooms of "The Cobweb Hotel" and sees a newly married couple of flies booking a room into the fake hotel. After they discover the trap, the female fly gets ensnared in one of the spider's webs, and the male fly fights with the spider being a "flyweight champion". However, he too becomes stuck in a web during the match.

Meanwhile, his wife wriggles herself free from the web and gives freedom to all the captives, who torment the spider by flicking several sharp pen heads and firing many aspirin pills at the spider. After paying revenge to the spider, the couple hold another wedding ceremony, followed by the other captives of the hotel, until the ending scene rolls in.

References

^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 66–67. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
^ "The Cobweb Hotel (1936) - The Internet Animation Database". www.intanibase.com. Retrieved August 4, 2018.

[1] Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 66–67. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.

[2] "The Cobweb Hotel (1936) - The Internet Animation Database". www.intanibase.com. Retrieved August 4, 2018.

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