Granite Hotel
| Granite Hotel | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Dave Fleischer |
| Story by | George Manuell |
| Produced by | Max Fleischer Adolph Zukor |
| Music by | Sammy Timberg |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Paramount Studios |
Running time | 6 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Granite Hotel is a 1940 American short film directed by Dave Fleischer. Released in April of that year, it was the fourth in the Stone Age Cartoons series.[1][2] The film is now in public domain.[3]
Plot summary
Set in a modern stone-age time, the viewer is presented to a gallery of characters like a telephone operator, the ventriloquist "Edgar Burgundy" and his doll "Charlie Bacardi" (a play on Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy) and a barber. A guest in need of a chess player calls the fire department who arrives riding a sauropod.[4]
Cast
Characters
- Newsboy
- Hotel Clerk
- Charlie Bacardi
- Monkey's Uncle
- Bejeweled Guest
- Barbered Guest
- Cold Guest
- Checker Player
- Bathing Guest
- Telephone Operator
References
- ^ Graham Webb. The animated film encyclopedia: a complete guide to American shorts, features and sequences 1900-1979, p198. ISBN 078640728X, ISBN 9780786407286. McFarland, 2000.
- ^ Motion picture herald, Volume 139, Issues 1-6. igley Pub. Co. 1940.
- ^ staff. "Fleischer". retrofilmvault. Retrieved March 16, 2012.
- ^ José Luis Sanz. Starring T. rex!: Dinosaur Mythology and Popular Culture, p31. ISBN 0253341531, ISBN 9780253341532. Indiana University Press, 2002.
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