Hash House Blues
| Hash House Blues | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Manny Gould Ben Harrison |
| Produced by | Charles Mintz (uncredited) |
| Music by | Joe de Nat[2] |
| Animation by | Allen Rose Preston Blair |
| Color process | Black and white |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release date | November 2, 1931[1] |
Running time | 5:50 |
| Language | English |
Hash House Blues, also spelled Hash-House Blues in some reissues, is a 1931 short animated from Columbia Pictures, and one of many in the long-running series of films featuring Krazy Kat.[3]
Plot
The film opens with Krazy who appears to be riding a luxury car, and wearing a top hat like a high-class individual. Moments later, it turns out he is walking in the sidewalk, and not riding the vehicle which moves forward past the screen. Krazy proceeds to a fancy restaurant.
Krazy enters the restaurant not as a patron as his outfit suggests, but as a waiter. In the kitchen, the chef assigns him to fix a few things, but a pesky fly causes him to mess up a bit. Krazy is able to take down the fly by opening a wheel of limburger whose scent causes the insect to collapse.
Krazy enters the dining area to tend the customers. Some acts of assistance include giving goggles to a client eating grapefruit, and helping a piglet get some food from a platter being hogged by other swine at the table. He finds his spaniel girlfriend, who is the entertainer, playing piano. The piano is animated and is having a painful key like someone having a toothache. Krazy can extract the painful key. The spaniel resumes playing her instrument as normal despite one key missing. Krazy continues tending and even entertaining the customers with a dance. When he serves a roasted bird to a plump lady, that lady is unsatisfied for some reason and tears the bill to pieces. The lady strikes Krazy with the food, causing Krazy to roll back and bump into a small table where a fish bowl falls and covers his head.
References
- ^ Bradley, Edwin M. (2005). The First Hollywood Sound Shorts, 1926-1931. McFarland. p. 141. ISBN 9781476606842. Retrieved January 20, 2016.
- ^ McCarty, Clifford (2000). Film Composers in America: A Filmography, 1911-1970. Oxford University Press. p. 81. ISBN 9780195114737 – via Google Books.
- ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 97–98. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
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