MERRY MANNEQUINS-Color Rhapsody (Charles Mintz/Cartoon Films, Ltd. [Ub Iwerks]/Columbia-1937)

[@fallingfast5230]

Thank you very much for posting this! I saw it on a TV show as a child thirty some years ago and it has real sentimental value (my oldest brother was a musician who liked animations) as well as being a great little art cartoon. Last time I looked for it I came up empty, so it was really cool to get to see it again.

[@gnikcohs]

The male mannequins body movements but especially the leg work when he danced were terrific animation. And even though it is standard cartoon fare, I really enjoyed the abundant and extreme anthropomorphic furniture, even that somewhat perverse couch at 4:22 . Maybe the lamp at 4:18 was the best, but almost all of them were excellent.

[@danstiver9135]

This is an art deco fanatic's wet dream!

[@笹原煌太]

Color Rhapsody - Merry Mannequins (1937) Opening Title & Closing

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A Columbia Cartoon Release On March 19, 1937

[@JadenVonBat]

...Hey, where's the big, scary bad guy that tries to take the girl away from our hero only to get his comeuppance at the end!?

[@gnikcohs]

What a great art nouveauish setting for this toon, and that meltdown at 7:14 was chilling. That's really interesting that Color Rhapsodys were being farmed out to Ub Iwerks.

[@jonathanwilson5011]

+gnikcohs Well, Iwerks needed the work since his other series failed. Here's one that's not on KZbin, with a catchy number: rarebit.org/?animation=blackboard-revue-a-color-rhapsody

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+Jonathan Wilson

[@SamuelMachadoFilho]

Lançamento nos EUA: 19 de março de 1937. Produção e direção: Ub Iwerks. Co-produção: Charles Mintz. Direção musical: Joe DeNat. Música: Eddie Kilfetaher. A presente cópia é do relançamento feito pela Columbia em 1952.

[@LAPO5511]

6:14 in this scene of three bells it's the same as Ub Iwerks Cartoon in series ComiColor Cartoon The Headless Horseman (1934)

[@markloveless1001]

Hmmmmmm. Saw this today for the first time. As best I can tell Ub wasn't working for Charles Mintz as this point. None the less, wow. And Charles Mintz studio became Screen Gems?! Woah. And to add to the weirdness, the same channel (MeTV) showed the Twilight Zone episode "The After Hours" day before yesterday. Without spoilers, let's just say the subject matter (in the general sense) is the same. Creepy.

[@laikapupkino1767]

2:41 is obviously where The Talking Heads got their inspiration

[@hebneh]

Near the end, a male mannequin falls down the stairs and lands on a hot radiator, and melts. That's because mannequins in the early 1900s had been made of wax - but by the time this cartoon was produced in 1937, mannequins were plaster, and wouldn't melt.

[@admeliora4822]

Beauty and the beast lol

[@movedtoanotheraccount7317]

6:12 That face looks like something out of a Hans Fischerkoesen cartoon.

[@animejunky2003]

They are mannequin right they don't need all this furniture and food they don't even eat that just plastic the I’m the only one who thinks that?!?!

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