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A Car-Tune Portrait
Directed byDirection:
Dave Fleischer
Director of animation:
David Tendlar
Story byUncredited story by:
Dave Fleischer
Isadore Sparber
and
David Tendlar
Produced byMax Fleischer
StarringFeaturing the voice talent of:
David Ross as the band leader (uncredited)
Music byMusical supervisor:
Lou Fleischer (uncredited)
Musical arrangement:
King Ross
Animation byCharacter animation:
David Tendlar
Nicholas Tafuri
Herman Cohen (uncr.)
William Sturm (uncr.)
Eli Brucker (uncr.)
Joe Oriolo (uncr.)
Jack Rabin (uncr.)[1]
Layouts byUncredited character layout:
David Tendlar
Color processTechnicolor (3-strip, credited on the original issue)
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • June 26, 1937 (1937-06-26)
Running time
7 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

A Car-Tune Portrait is a cartoon in the Color Classics series produced by Fleischer Studios.[2] Released on June 26, 1937,[3] the cartoon gives an imaginative take on Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2.

Plot

After brief opening credits set to the Minuet in G (Beethoven), the cartoon introduces a lion dressed up as a musical conductor, attempting to keep his orchestra of animal musicians in order as they half-play, half-fight their way through the piece. Memorable moments include a Dachshund playing the xylophone using his back legs while the rest of him sleeps, a group of monkeys using a flute as a pea-shooter to fire at their fellow musicians, and a horse trombonist who attempts to swat a fly using his instrument but who only succeeds in hitting the dog trumpeter in front of him.

In keeping with the building frenzy of Liszt's rhapsody, the animals become more and more violent, playing pranks on each other and generally wreaking havoc; but still the piece goes on. The final scenes see the lion conductor smashed over the head with a giant bass drum, at which point he gives in, the music finishes and the cartoon ends.

Recycled Plot

This plot had been recycled into three Academy Awards for Best Animated Short—two Oscar-nominated shorts, Rhapsody in Rivets and The Magic Fluke, and one Oscar-winning short, The Cat Concerto—one Merrie Melodie short, Bugs Bunny starring in Rhapsody Rabbit, one Woody Woodpecker short, Convict Concerto with solely story by Hugh Harman of Harman and Ising and one Looney Tunes short, Daffy's Rhapsody.

See also

References

  1. ^ http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/max-fleischers-a-car-tune-portrait-1937/
  2. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 66–67. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  3. ^ Cartoon Research entry


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