Land of the Midnight Fun
| Land of the Midnight Fun | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Supervision: Tex Avery (credited as "Fred Avery") |
| Produced by | Leon Schlesinger Assisted by: Henry Binder (uncredited) |
| Narrated by | Robert C. Bruce (uncredited) |
| Animation by | Character animation: Charles and Robert McKimson (listed and credited as "Charles McKimson" and listed as "Robert McKimson" and uncredited) Virgil Ross (uncredited) Effects animation: A.C. Gamer (uncredited) |
| Color process | In: Technicolor |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. The Vitaphone Corporation |
Land of the Midnight Fun is a 1939 Merrie Melodies cartoon supervised by Tex Avery (credited as "Fred Avery").
Plot
A cruise to Nome, Alaska, starts with various cruise ship jokes: the ship pulls out of the harbor like a car, raising anchor also raises the front of the boat, the ship follows the coast by curving around it. On arrival, we see some local scenes: A penguin eats two fish, then is eaten by the third; the dogs of a dog sled stop (behind an iceberg) at a telephone pole; a timber wolf goes around shouting "Timber!" (even the wolf admits, "Gee, this is silly!"); two Eskimos rub noses: in preparation, the woman applies lipstick to her nose. Finally, an Eskimo nightclub (after all, the nights are six months long) features a rotoscoped ice skater. The ship leaves, and gets caught in the fog near New York City; when the fog clears, we see the ship is perched atop the World's Fair Trylon.
Availability
- LaserDisc – The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Volume 4, Side 7
- DVD – Allegheny Uprising (USA 1995 Turner print included as a bonus)
Notes
- This was the first Warner Bros. cartoon to feature the 1939–40 red, white, and blue target rings with a sky cloud background circle (similar to the cloud background in the modern Warner Bros. Pictures logo) in the Merrie Melodies opening titles.
External links
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