Have You Got Any Castles -1938

[@AJAXKID123]

This was one of my favorites as a kid. It all came back to me as I watched this again. The one thing I always remembered from it was all the Clark Gables poking out of The House of Seven Gables. I used to think that was so funny.

[@saradomin89898]

i used to be scared of that!

[@Mary-xc9dh]

The thin man that came out of a thin man book is of course based off William Powell's portrayal of the thin Man in the movies

[@Airysucks2763]

fu man chu so racist

[@Crunk9]

​@@Mary-xc9dhthe thin man used to give me nightmares lmao

[@danielpartida492]

@@saradomin89898 Not Scared you nah

[@abrahamruiz9254]

Imma 2003 kid and these been part of my childhood 🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭💯💯💯💯💯💯💯 nostalgia

[@rebeccamichael626]

Same.

[@JedinMiller-Allen]

2007 for me 😂❤

[@aleksandarvil5718]

2002 for me 🥺😭

[@arielruh7773]

Yup definitely 2005 6 7

[@JanetStarChild]

I'm surprised that children in this new millennium has seen these kinds of cartoons before. I thought kids in the '80s and '90s would be the last generation to have watched classic cartoons via video tapes.

[@MarianRenta]

Its like I'm 4 years old again 🙂 This episode was so incredibly witty, fun, innovative, and very ahead of its time! The way they bring those book titles to life in such an inventive and creative way.. bravo! I absolutely love the swing-for-sale part. The Frankenstein/Fu-Man-Chu part always scared me though!

[@FN_FAL_4_ever]

2:24 Love this Cab Calloway bit

[@michialcraven4238]

This was my son's favourite episode, and that's what got him into reading books. 📖

[@minahilbaig1822]

Good for him! ❤

[@pynzlyngdohnonglait6698]

I watch this when i was 7 years old... But now i am 25 years old...my childhood days is over and now i love marvel comics, movies, cartoons and serials..

[@Ginger-wl1qi]

I just watched this with my mother who is 96. She loved it. I loved these Merrie Melodies cartoons. Always will.

[@Sir_Serbjan_lll]

These will be forever our cartoons memories❤️

[@junelobo5285]

I wasn't even around when this came out but I had the the dvds I used to watch every day so this is one of the ones I remember a lot.

[@CPorter]

Shit just went from singing happily to complete anarchy in a matter of seconds

[@JanetStarChild]

It's not "anarchy"; I believe you mean 'chaos'.

[@canaisyoung3601]

These "midnight at the bookstore/grocery store" cartoons are like that. Some are better than others.

[@gustavoceballos5327]

The featured books include the following: The Town Crier Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Fu Man Chu The Phantom of the Opera Frankenstein The Good Earth The Invisible Man Topper The Thirty-Nine Steps So Big Green Pastures Heidi The Thin Man White House Cook Book Great Works of Art Little Women Little Men Old King Cole The House of Seven Gables Bulldog Drummond The Life of Louis Pasteur Seventh Heaven Mutiny on the Bounty Rip Van Winkle The Valiant Little Tailor Uncle Tom's Cabin Castles The Three Musketeers Drums Along the Mohawk Book of Etiquette Henry the Eighth Mother India Diamond Jim Oliver Twist So Red the Nose The Pied Piper Three Men on a Horse Seven Keys to Baldpate Prisoner of Zenda Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp The Informer Little Boy Blew Charge of the Light Brigade Robinson Crusoe All Quiet on the Western Front Under Two Flags Hurricane Gone with the Wind

[@jamesbochnik1696]

So many books that I didn’t know were a thing until watching this

[@comet1970]

They did modify the book titles slightly on a couple: The original is "So Red the Rose" by Stark Young. (the switch to nose is to match the W.C. Fields character) and it was originally "Little Boy Blue" for the nursery rhyme.

[@jingthethief]

thank you so much. im gonna check out these books.

[@kitsunek7335]

Definitely gonna check out some of these books!

[@stephenholloway6893]

The town crier was an based on Alexander Woollcott. When the short was re-released after his death, his scenes were cut. But was eventually restored for the Golden Collection DVD set. Albeit with the Blue Ribbon re-release version.

[@ClassicTVMan1981X]

The very first Blue Ribbon prints actually still had the Woollcott caricature scenes intact, but after a fracas with his estate, they were deleted (along with Rip Van Winkle sleeping on the silenced cuckoo clock) from subsequent prints.

[@Tomsonic41]

You can see marks on the film telling the editors when to cut to get rid of the Town Crier scenes.

[@AirshBornely]

No wonder I don't remember seeing his scenes from when I was a kid. Are school had this episode on a VHS tape

[@bobcowan4188]

Woollcott's CBS radio program was called The Town Crier. It ran from 1933 to 1938.

[@canaisyoung3601]

The only time I saw the edited version (edited to remove Alex Woolcott's likeness, not edited for racial and ethnic stereotypes) was on Cartoon Network. And, yes, I'm surprised the only scenes cut were the Alex Woolcott opening and closing.

[@NguyenJake-se3pm]

I remember watching this before learning English back in the early 2000s, I didn’t understand a word back then, rewatching this brings back so many memories about this

[@Microwaveinthetoaster]

This gives me such good memories from my childhood, my dad had tons of dvds worth of looney tunes so I got to all the classics and this was always my favorite.

[@gilition]

While filled with stereotypes, this is still a incredibly fun cartoon.

[@MarioSonicDKPokeFAN]

I'm surprised this video allows Comments seeing as how they turned off all the comments on mostly all the looney tunes videos on KZbin. For whatever stupid reason

[@Antoinedunaway]

bcuz KZbin only thinks only kids watch Looney Tunes I mean adults watch it too like myself 😉

[@stephenholloway6893]

These shorts were originally meant for adults anyway.

[@Antoinedunaway]

@@stephenholloway6893 Practically all of Looney Tunes cartoons were targeted towards adults

[@bdu7281]

Apparently they did that with ALL the kids shows on KZbin which is completely stupid.

[@RevolErtaeht]

@@bdu7281 Completely stupid and some people believe if it's animated it's fr kids despite having 12 or 15 age rating

[@prodigygaming5102]

Found this gem from my childhood and looking back there’s so much happening

[@AarHan3]

4:06 - Old King Cole am a merry old soul! 😊 4:13 - Old King Cole! I'm a merry old soul! 😊 4:48 - I went down in history! 😊

[@aleksandarvil5718]

85 Years Later, STILL TIMELESS 😮😮😮

[@dragonquesti8629]

Lots of nostalgia with this one

[@msVidaBoheme]

wow i love that i got to see this! this was in the depths of my memory and brings me back to when i was a kid . so nice

[@bradvan316]

5:19 I lost it when he cut half of his beard off

[@icecreamidol3567]

Equivalent exchange

[@DeadRaymanWalking]

I remember seeing this cartoon on a public domain Porky Pig VHS I had when I was a little kid. Unfortunately the last part which shows the cuckoo clock bird muzzled by Rip Van Winkle is cut.

[@ChineseCheeseSqueeze]

That's insane! Me too! Did we have the same tape? Lol

[@BHTheKid5]

I had that tape too. The town crier was cut in mine.

[@ClassicTVMan1981X]

Yes -- also deleted was Alexander Woollcott's caricature as the town crier; his estate (he passed away in 1943) complained about it shortly after the cartoon's 1947 reissue.

[@Gostwriterindisguise]

@@ClassicTVMan1981X he died in 1943.

[@ClassicTVMan1981X]

@@Gostwriterindisguise Right, I meant his estate complained about it.

[@danielcreasy5]

I loved this as a kid

[@WolfHack]

1:10 used to scare the crap out of me

[@Mary-xc9dh]

My favorite part! I still think of it off and on

[@michaelevans2750]

That's my favorite part.

[@sc-wr3fj]

I swear i remember a book with a big nose guy jumpscare, that scared the hell out of me as a kid, but i cant find it!!! You guys can help me? (Im not crazy hahaha)

[@baduel5986]

I was looking for this cartoon for that scene in particular

[@RedSoda-HumourNegativeDeluxe]

Not gonna lie. That music when these four dance, just hits so good! But the part with 7 gables and old king cole, is my favourite part, shocked how 30s been rubberhose style, to this masterpiece of a quality!

[@mangoman2637]

By far one of the best "book/brochure covers come to life" shorts. Beaten only by Book Revue by Bob Clampett. But you can't really beat Book Revue.

[@stephenholloway6893]

I agree but far as Frank Tashlin's trilogy of books comes to life, this was his best of the 3.

[@mangoman2637]

@@stephenholloway6893 ye

[@onlyone23km]

Only few episodes can. This had to have come before Book Revue. And what a great setup to it, too!

[@stephenholloway6893]

​@onlyone23km In fact it did this short was released on June 25th, 1938. Book Revue was released on January 5th, 1946.

[@onlyone23km]

@@stephenholloway6893 so in a way, Book Revue was the sequel.

[@TUM_Toons]

I had the Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volume 2 and this was on it, along with I Love To Singa, Book Revue, Baby Bottleneck and What's Opera Doc I had the true collection

[@trashdanarts]

I HAVE THE SAME ONE !

[@NicholasHamilton1718]

4:35 First time, success 5:15 Second time, fail

[@ssestakhch]

TOM'D!

[@daneplaxton5729]

5:17 TOM'D!!!

[@Promare2019]

I remember watching this as a kid. But I only remember the opening part with Mr. Hyde, Fu Manchu, the Phantom, and Frankenstein. I never realized that they danced afterwards.

[@wizsword6484]

Damn I remeber this back when I watching them with my grandpa. Fuck I love these memories.

[@JacobThomson1988]

Classic memories

[@revjohnlee]

I have vague memories of seeing this one several times as a child and I remember that it made no sense to me back then. Now, 6 decades later, it makes perfect sense and I've even read many of the books featured. I just about spilled my tea all over my keyboard when I recognized that the "seven gables" were "Clark Gables"! That was fun!

[@ThomasR415]

The Old King Cole parts were my favorite.

[@FunkyTiger_2002]

Looking back at these cartoons I've realized a lot of things. 1. Classic cartoons are more imaginative and intellectual, the music composed and the clever jokes are what make these toons timeless. 2. While I understand in the past you could get away with a lot more like how black men and women are portrayed and it might offend a lot of people in this new generation, but to be perfectly frank I never thought anything bad about how White, Black, Mexican, Asian, etc. are portrayed because even as a kid I understood it was a joke and it never occurred to me to take offense at a cartoon which I genuinely enjoyed because it was funny and entertaining. People can't take a silly joke anymore unless it's making fun of the comedian or roasting somebody else, it doesn't matter if the joke is Racist, Sexual, or Sexist as long as your not the butt of the joke your ego is fine. 3.The music is lit. 🔥 4. Again, these cartoons had much more meaning behind them. Cartoons now a days try too hard to build a complex character arc story and background and all that crap, while it's not a bad thing to build a world around you sometimes it's good to just dive in and tell a story unrelated to the story before, also lets face it the only reason why new cartoons now have this complex build up is to sell the franchise. Even in kid cartoons were you try to fit in a lesson you honestly have to baby talk a kid to remember how to breathe while drooling brain dead on an Ipad. 5. I just wanna watch a damn cartoon to distract me from the world for 5 freaking minutes, I don't care what gender the character is, their sexuality, beliefs, name? I don't care! You don't even need the best voice acting cast in the world the tell a story just look at Tom & Jerry! Show me what's happening, if I wanted a whole dialogue I would have read the back cover of a book summary then there would be no point in reading the book. (I did not expect to vent so much about this but for what it's worth I hope some of us feel the same way. It's not that I hate the new things going on it's just that I miss the simple times is all. I'm only 20 years old and yet my mind feels like I've seen generations skip by.)

[@fa-nl9mu]

in response to your second point-- consider that maybe it never occurred to you why these things are bad because you never took the time to learn and think about their impacts with an open mind

[@FunkyTiger_2002]

@@fa-nl9mu I have considered that actually, trust me sometimes I just wanna watch something and not think to much about it.

[@fa-nl9mu]

@@FunkyTiger_2002 do you think that's a good way to engage with media?

[@FunkyTiger_2002]

@@fa-nl9mu No....*hides head in a blanket* 😔

[@thecrusader1673]

Yeah I still don't understand why some people might have problems with how blacks are portrayed in animation. It's like it's a sin if their lips are lighter than the rest of their body. And if it that's not the problem then perhaps some people should watch other animations with no blacks in it I guess.

[@TehDisher]

I a fused to watch it when I was younger.

[@dantewing9723]

4:37 Old KingCole is a noisy old soul.

[@Mr.WonderJames]

The Amount Of Books In This One Cartoon. I Wrote A Bunch Of Em Down

[@AHHHHHHHHHHHHl]

2:47 I love the harmony

[@romanbeckett3130]

I have a bunch of merrie melodies and looney toons dvds, but theyve been through so many car rides in the portable dvd player and hapzadard cartoon binges that theyre scratched beyond watchability. With that and the lack of any dvd compatable devices these days, uploads like this are the only way i can watch these old cartoons and confirm they werent fever dreams or something

[@McCoyyoCcM]

I quote this quite often. I use to have a bugs and porky VHS tape with different episodes. Brings me back

[@princeparish5001]

The best episode next to "Hollywood Steps in"

[@Josiebeam]

6:28 when you hear a party in your basement

[@cosmocatgamer5775]

This always reminded me of book review with daffy duck

[@stephenholloway6893]

Same premise but different director here it's Frank Tashlin.

[@lifeisstr4nge]

Man did music change in 80 years 😮

[@nuckelaveez5029]

If there was a cartoon HOF then Cab Calloway would undoubtedly be in it

[@ryuuXV]

oh sweet memories..

[@HisDudeness2020]

5:57 those were the good ol' days when we still gave snitches stiches.

[@josoulsmainchannel7615]

Oh so that's what snitches gets stitches means

[@dantewing9723]

5:15 I'll get out my scissors that cut.

[@GodSonGoku7496]

5:17 5:18 5:19 5:20

[@rtlstien]

I never realized that the 'Have You Got Any Castles' Song from 5:00 to 5:40 was actually based around an actual song released the year prior. The lyrics and sound effects follow the flow of the actual song.

[@jeremytung1632]

I love shorts like this, a place is closed down for the night and then some kind of party goes on with the stuff inside.

[@KarlSturmgewher]

I wanna see the following adapted by Tezuka Productions, drawn in Tezuka style: The Three Musketeers Thumbelina The Wild Swans The Snow Queen

[@thisisspartaralston6270]

I watch this every year

[@BigSarnt]

I love the shootout at the end

[@trevorwarne1166]

In this cartoon, characters from various books of literature come to life like never before in a library after hours.

[@barryputterman2412]

Warner Brothers underwrote and distributed cartoons primarily to promote the songs in their music library and featured in their live action musicals. And they usually wanted the song titles to be the names of the cartoons. Both Have You Got Any Castles? and Old King Cole are Richard Whiting-Johnny Mercer songs from the 1937 film Varsity Show. Once the songs were placed and the title shown Warners didn't much care what else happened in the cartoon. So, stuck with the title Have You Got Any Castles?, Tashlin had the Three Musketeers enter the film from a castle and let it go at that.

[@andrewguerra9343]

1:09 that was frightening then juxtaposed with a funny dance.

[@onlyone23km]

Some of my favorite episodes in Looney Tunes history is this and Book Revue.

[@lonephoenix7814]

Use to love this cartoon

[@lifeisstr4nge]

Little Boy Blew - he needed the money 😅😅😅😂😂😂

[@CarSVernon]

this cartoon is, as the kids would call it, chaotic.

[@VastIceGaming]

Anyone else notice that the clock at the beginning reads midnight, but the cuckoo bird only chirps ten times?

[@adyn1826]

A crazy fun fact, a lot of the books titles are based on real books, fairy tales, and even nursery rhymes Edit: those scenes made me laugh a lot 5:17 5:59 god this brings back good nostalgic memories when I watched it when I was a kid.

[@inbald1]

It's crazy how animation from the 40s is so much better than today

[@supernova8082]

the pied piper part has always stuck with me.

[@jaco3041]

masterpiece

[@swaggakid00010]

Much better as an adult. But I still enjoyed the Mr. Christian went on a meal part all the same.

[@Virpugnator]

An absolute brilliant cartoon, but should have won an Oscar. It brings to life, the literary classics for children and adults to enjoy. Modern cartoons are something to laugh at these days, because of their pathetic content and quality.

[@TheLordmep]

This would make an interesting streaming series.

[@DX-PERIMENT]

5:56 that one student who is snitching on your friend escaping detention

[@rachelogg6196]

2:18

[@trevorbuehler3273]

4:11, 4:18, 4:42 it's "Bulldog Drummond", not "Bulldog Drummin" for the actual real tale title!

[@davidwesley2525]

They couldn't say Drummond because it might be a copyright issue. There was a cartoon that featured a telegram that said Western onion instead of Western Union. In one cartoon Swing shift Cinderella at the conclusion of the cartoon , Cinderella got on a bus full wolves that said Lockweed instead of Lockheed.

[@aleksandarvil5718]

5:24 LMFAO XD 😂😂😂

[@matthewhahn1132]

I remember about this one too very funny

[@Lars-ze2xf]

It says that the town crier scenes was some unknown reasons been cut out from this short. But this one is restored.

[@mayor5208]

when i was kid, this episode scares me

[@arielruh7773]

Is it because Mr Hyde the phantom of the opera Frankenstein and fu man Chu?

[@mayor5208]

@@arielruh7773 I actually don't know why, but the animation features made me uncomfortable when I was younger. But I think those 4 you mentioned might have scared me haha.

[@RocksDBuggy]

Eu assisti esse quando eu era criança, que nostalgia😢❤ Mas lembro que era bem mais longo com mais episódios, alguém me ajuda a encontrar a versão completa com mais desenhos incluso nesse ?! Por favor❤😢

[@hanschristianbrando5588]

Spare me any complaints about supposed Black stereotypes in this cartoon. Most of the Black characters (who used to be cut out when this cartoon was shown on TV) are caricatures of famous performers, and depicted no worse than Greta Garbo and Clark Gable, who were the top white film stars of the time. Certainly Uncle Tom doesn't behave stereotypically passive when Rip Van Winkle messes with him, and nobody can blame him for his reaction.

[@paulyricca3881]

👴🏻🥃 IM SINK U MAKING EXCUSES EVERY TIME OLD STEREOTYPES APPEAR . IT WAS WRONG IT WAS WRONG IT WAS WRONG NO MATTER WHAT U SAY BOOMER.

[@scoopishere7881]

Even if they’re just caricatures of performers, it’s still possible to do a caricature of a black person and not have it embody all of the stereotypical depictions of black people from the time.

[@BR-jw7pm]

I agree that, for the most part, the black characters appear to just be caricatures, but Uncle Tom’s design is a bit… awkward and more cartoonish than others, almost if he isn’t “normal”. I agree his reaction to Rip was justified and it’s a brief gag that doesn’t ruin the short. While it’s harder to defend certain jokes/gags from older media, we should also acknowledge its existence and learn from it and not pretend it never happened.

[@treygonzalez5252]

For so long, I wondered where all the Looney Tunes characters were (I first saw this on a Looney Tunes DVD).

[@stephenholloway6893]

The Merrie Melodies at this point were mostly one-shot shorts. Exemptions existed, of course, but if you wanted to Porky, for example, at the time, the Looney Tunes shorts would have been your best bet. This was released in 1938, after all.

[@danielpartida492]

Childhood

[@trevorwarne1166]

♪ "A Warner Bros. Cartoon." ♪

[@kpc9602]

do you ever always had some childhood memories about watching one show/movie at a time, and as characters talked, their actions and quotes were different as you recalled or forgotten? my question's confusing as it sounds, but it's only because I've been through such nostalgias when I was stumbled upon one of the videos

[@pynzlyngdohnonglait6698]

3:45 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott...

[@madgepereira2891]

Cutiez 😍

[@wallcamillo]

That's true

[@mintyaquagreen1675]

5:58 This is me!

[@IzludeTingel]

green pastures is probably my favorite bit in this lol. it's so catchy

[@BrandonKohout]

All is well, all is well.

[@nmsoti1]

All is well, all is well!

[@jacobmalic5037]

The part where the black peoples are singing came from Clean Pastures a censored cartoon because it was considered too inappropriate for kids.

[@krakenvisuals4360]

No it was censored for promoting racist views

[@HooDatDonDar]

@@krakenvisuals4360 not seen it, but the original 1930’s movie was a view of the gospel thru black eyes. People still argue about it.

[@mykaruest3620]

I'm surprised Sherlock Holmes isn't in this tbh

[@straightjacket308]

The jokes are too much 🤣🤣🤣

[@TheAnchorArmsChad]

5:59 That's what I'd do to the Wind if it never shuts up

[@mintyaquagreen1675]

Amen!

[@SuperSoldier26]

I remember back then as a little kid when Looney Tunes had more class

[@christianrodriguez7503]

1:13-4:06-4:15-4:39-1:28-1:35

[@Whatisahandle-]

I was scared of the Heidi Hi lady lol Kinda still am

[@MichaelSavoy1]

2:18 - 2:55

[@matthewweikert20]

I always thought the black people in the Merrie Melodies cartoons were like monkeys

[@GoodEndings-fs9up]

No Old 1938

[@dmann5938]

4:11 4:18 4:42 DROP DAT BEAT

[@mangoman2637]

goes so hard

[@silverwindfox15]

The sad thing about these cartoons is not the fact that they are terrible. If anything they are a lot better than some of the modern kids cartoon. No what makes their quality go down is their aged references and racist/sexist characterization.

[@casperd2100]

Imagine complaining about terrible uncreative modern cartoons but not realizing your cancelling fool's head being the reason why all modern cartoons are generic. Everything in this cartoon is extremely exaggerated and meant to be so. They even attack white rich males at 5:19 by characterizing them as fat greedy people with an untrusting face. You have cognitive dissonance in your head.

[@nuckelaveez5029]

You’re absolutely right. However this particular cartoon struck me as pretty benign. The green pastures sequence was sung by the real Cab Calloway, a black musician who cameoed in many cartoons of that time

[@TishaSwirly]

​@@casperd2100Look at the way they portray the black people. This needs to be taken down!

[@HooDatDonDar]

Aged references are part of the appeal. See what was important then. ‘Sexism’ is a bogus complaint, as sex differences are real.

[@gamesampler9066]

At 1:08 it is supposed to be Jekyll not Jekyl, a typo there

[@ClassicTVMan1981X]

Copyright, I think. Also, Jekyll's surname is correctly pronounced "jee-kul" (to rhyme with "treacle," not with "heckle" as is frequently the case).

[@HooDatDonDar]

@@ClassicTVMan1981X That was what Stevenson said when someone wrote him, and asked. But he also said he did hope people would not argue about it. Probably thinking of his American fans, where it is pronounced ‘Jeck-ull’, as in the resort of Jekyll Island, down south.

[@dantewing9723]

6:27 Why won't they let me sleep!?

[@ClassicTVMan1981X]

The cartoon ended at that point in the 1947 re-release to remove the ending scene of Alexander Woollcott's "Town Crier" caricature (also in the original ending scene was Rip Van Winkle sleeping on the muzzled cuckoo clock).

[@NicholasHamilton1718]

5:17 Uncle Tom: Oh no you don't! Not this time.