I Like Mountain Music
| I Like Mountain Music | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Rudolf Ising |
| Story by | Bob Clampett |
| Produced by | Hugh Harman Rudolf Ising Leon Schlesinger |
| Music by | Frank Marsales |
| Animation by | Isadore Freleng Larry Martin Uncredited: Bob Clampett Thomas McKimson Paul Smith |
| Color process | Black and white Color Systems, Inc. (Korean 1973 redrawn three-strip color edition with different name) Redrawn colorized (1995 Turner Entertainment version) |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
Release date | June 14, 1933 (US) |
Running time | 6:59 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
I Like Mountain Music is a 1933 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Rudolf Ising.[1] The short was released on June 14, 1933.[2]
This cartoon is a follow-up to the 1932 short Three's a Crowd, in which literary characters came to life and stepped off their book covers. In this film, the characters on magazine covers come to life.[3]
Plot
At night, the magazines at a drugstore come to life and put on a show. However, the man on the crime magazine seizes the opportunity to rob the cash. Now it's up to the sleuths of the detective magazine to catch him. Sherlock Holmes and Watson, among others, follow their trail.
Celebrity cameos include Edward G. Robinson, who is inside the pages of a crime magazine. Will Rogers comes in, twirling a lasso, and delivers his trademark line, "All I know is just what I read in the papers." Comedian Ed Wynn appears in an ad for "Texico Quick-Exploding Gasoline" while Eddie Cantor takes off the beard of a violinist to reveal he's actually Rubinoff. (At the time, Wynn's NBC radio show was sponsored by Texaco, with the tagline that the firm's product was "quick starting gasoline," and violinist/orchestra leader David Rubinoff was one of the featured players on Cantor's radio show for Chase and Sanborn -- the "Jimmy" referred to by the Cantor caricature is probably Jimmy Wallington, the show's announcer.) In the last minute of the cartoon, Mussolini is shown briefly making a fascist salute, directing mustachioed soldiers (armed with bayonets) to chase the bad guys.
Alternate versions
When the cartoon was redrawn colorized in 1973 by Color Systems, Inc. under the name "Radio and Television Packagers", it was renamed Magazine Rack.
In addition, the cartoon was also one of the several Merrie Melody cartoons that was redrawn colorized by Turner Entertainment in 1995.
References
- ^ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 19. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
- ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 104–106. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
- ^ Schneider, Steve (1988). That's All, Folks! : The Art of Warner Bros. Animation. Henry Holt and Co. p. 40. ISBN 0-8050-0889-6.
External links
- I Like Mountain Music (Redrawn Colorized) on YouTube
- Magazine Rack (I Like Mountain Music Redrawn) on YouTube
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