Crazy House (1940 film)
Appearance
Crazy House | |
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Directed by | Walter Lantz |
Story by | Victor McLeod (uncredited) |
Produced by | Walter Lantz |
Starring | Bernice Hansen Dick Nelson (both uncredited) |
Music by | Frank Marsales (uncredited) |
Animation by | Alex Lovy LaVerne Harding Les Kline (all uncredited) |
Backgrounds by | Ed Kiechle (uncredited) |
Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 9 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Crazy House is the fourth Andy Panda cartoon produced by Walter Lantz and probably directed by Alex Lovy (as speculated by historians such as Michael Barrier) or by Lantz himself (as he claimed himself). The cartoon was released on September 23, 1940.
Plot
Andy and his father seek shelter from a flood in an abandoned building, which in reality is a fun house, filled with such things as hidden practical jokes, a noisy merry-go-round and a dancing floor.
Notes
- The cartoon is recognized as Lantz's first fully independent film. In early 1940, Universal Pictures, which was facing severe financial problems, decided to cut Lantz's weekly advance, forcing the producer to shut down the studio for a while. Crazy House was produced during the closure, as Lantz managed to gain full rights to the studio's characters in case Universal had been unable to keep distributing the cartoons.[1]
References
- ^ Cooke, Jon, Komorowski, Thad, Shakarian, Pietro, and Tatay, Jack. "1940 Archived 2008-07-23 at the Wayback Machine". The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia
External links
- Crazy House at IMDb
Categories:
- 1940 films
- 1940 comedy films
- American animated short films
- English-language films
- Films directed by Walter Lantz
- Animated films about birds
- Films set in abandoned houses
- Walter Lantz Productions shorts
- 1940s American animated films
- American films
- Films about bears
- Films scored by Frank Marsales
- Films featuring Andy Panda
- 1940 animated films
- American comedy films
- Universal Pictures short films
- Universal Pictures animated short films
- Films set in the 2000s
- Animated films about animals
- Comedy short films
- Short animated film stubs