Sunshine Makers (Van Beuren 1935)

3rd Cartoon in the Rainbow Parade Series by Van Beuren

[@joshuabarger472]

7:02 i love how the one guy at the end is just like pleading "I wanna be sad!" and the happy dude just socks him in the face

[@terriashby1285]

I watched this many, many years ago so I have periodically found my walking around singling, “Sunshine. Sunshine. It’s just the thing that keeps you feeling fine”

[@killermoney1511]

BRUH SAME ! I always hummed the song, and finally I googled it and found it!

[@SOULRELIEF22]

@@chuemmmeechuemmmee1347 It's sun worship. I only noticed today that they are saying hail his majesty the sun. Pitiful. The song gets stuck in children's minds and they're so young they don't even know what they're saying! And if they don't go to church, that will be all the god they'll have! THE BLOOD OF JESUS SHALL PREVAIL! ST JOHN 3:16! ❤️✝️❤️ ALL HAIL KING JESUS! JESUS IS RETURNING SOON! HE MADE THE SUN AND THE MOON. JESUS MADE THE STARS ALSO! "ALL THINGS WERE MADE BY HIM; AND WITHOUT HIM WAS NOT ANY THING MADE THAT WAS MADE." JOHN 1:3! 🙏🏼🙌🏼✝️ HALLELUJAH! ✝️❤️✝️

[@marybethrobertson8783]

I remember loving this as a kid, but not gonna lie it's lowkey terrifying now

[@randomplotbunny]

Same

[@harmonetheanimationaddict4419]

Hooray for forced positivity.

[@JPdraws_]

Nah I still love it. I really like this style of animation and feel

[@LowellLucasJr.]

6:55 I agree!😂 They literally got tackled into submission!❤

[@City_Lights]

RIP Nick Sand, Pioneer of LSD & Consciousness, Bringer of the famous Orange Sunshine and Member of the Brotherhood of eternal Love

[@baustin39]

This has always been my favorite little cartoon. Finding the lyrics for it was another thing. After a few hours, I finally think I came up with the complete lyrics. The Sunshine Makers Song - Ted Eshbaugh 1935 A new day is dawning and here is the sun, hail his majesty the sun. 1, 2, 3 ,4, 1, 2, 3 ,4, 1, 2, 3 ,4 The sun is above who fills you with love and shoos your blues away. And we are the ones who bring in the sun and do it every day. Hail his majesty Hail his majesty Hail his majesty the sun. Sunshine! Sunshine! I just love the good old golden sunshine. Sunshine! Sunshine! It’s just the thing to keep you feeling fine. Sunshine! Sunshine! I just love the good old golden sunshine. Sunshine, Bah! Joy, Bah! We're happy when we're sad, we're always feeling bad, How are ya -Terrible -That's fine. We're happy when we're sad. Tra la la la la la la la, Tra la la la la la Tra la la la la la la la, Tra la la la la la I don’t want to be happy; I want to be sad. I don’t want to be happy. . . I want to be happy, I want to be gay I want to be happy and glad, and never again be sad. I never will cry; I never will sigh, ‘cause I want to be glad. He never will cry, he never will sigh ‘cause he wants to be glad. And now the world looks bright and fair, because there’s sunshine everywhere.

[@samanthadean1083]

Bob A I heard "The sun is the one, who fills you with fun and shoos your blues away." And "Sunshine, Sunshine, I got lots of good old golden sunshine."

[@gfblack5307]

Over 60 years ago this was my favorite cartoon, with only one TV channel in those days you could catch it a couple of times a week. Looks great in color!

[@BansheePrinzess]

Ditto! And, yeah, it was originally black and white, but still a favorite.

[@Aporter54]

Really sharp image, and the color is great. I saw this on TV as a kid, back when TV was in black & white. Wonderful that now people around the world can see what's really a commercial for the Borden Milk Company.

[@fromthesidelines]

Borden's distributed this as a promotional film AFTER it was originally released as a "Burt Gillett's Rainbow Parade" cartoon (produced by Van Beuren Studios) in early 1935. Apparently, they liked the idea of "bottled sunshine", and tied that into their own dairy products.

[@pilis318]

I did see this when I was about 9 years old on a local TV channel from Romania, in 2012.

[@madelynbonilla6733]

Thanks! I've been looking for this video for years. I remember watching it as a kid so many times but never remembered the name. We used to have it on a tape but it disappeared =(

[@BeastlyGamer]

Madelyn Bonilla same here

[@halim6150]

Same here, but I remember it used to scare the shit out of me.

[@alison7196]

Madelyn Bonilla holy shit me too.

[@mandel12]

Ha me too! It was a VHS at my grandmas house.

[@rubysantana4433]

Sameeee the struggle was real

[@JoanFinkle]

Always loved this cartoon. They used to show it at the Fillmore East in between acts!

[@BlueJWay999]

The sad guys look like Professor Snape

[@christianmoralesortiz4688]

...... the RESEMBLANCE is uncanny

[@veijiouuuu]

I though I was the only one that saw that!!!

[@randomplotbunny]

As a kid I really liked this cartoon, I thought it was funny, but now... I'm terrified of the lessons I was unconsciously taking in from things like this.

[@l.salisbury1253]

3:17 - either A) the inspiration for the Blue Meanies or B) the first-ever Goths!

[@toddfox3892]

I saw this cartoon at intermission between acts at a Fillmore East concert. Back in the Sunshine acid days.

[@Bogframe]

Alan Arkush, who worked at the Filmore East used a clip from this in his movie Get Crazy (1983).

[@SignOffsGuy]

This a beautiful print of this classic toon. Thank you for posting this!

[@edgarallanlovecraft5485]

A wagon pulled by a grasshopper driven by a munchkin/gnome-y whom is delivering liquid sunshine? Triiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiippppppppppppppyyyyyyyyyyyyy

[@christianmoralesortiz4688]

Edgar Allan Lovecraft YEP, AND THAT'S ONLY THE BEGINNING OF THE TRIPPINESS!!!!XD

[@Carly8Corday]

WHO.

[@nancyellis5317]

LOVE this cartoon! It is trippy in the true sense of the word! I've watched it umpteen times and never get tired of seeing it. Love it from the very beginning (introduction and credits) to the very end. Love the lyrics to the desultory song, "We're Happy when We're Sad" It makes me laugh out loud. The animation is so imaginative and clever!

[@BansheePrinzess]

I love it, too. We kids back in the day just took it at face value. Happy vs gloomy, with lots of pretty colors! Actually, I only saw it in color in recent years; it was originally black and while, but still a favorite with all the kids.

[@user-qf7ud5de9h]

Beautiful😂🎉

[@christianmoralesortiz4688]

To explain what I was talking about; sunshine is like orange juice because they have it in the morning and is full of vitamin c and it wakes you up.. While I theorize that moonshine (or moonlight) is like milk and it calms you down.

[@Egalitariat-likesecretariat]

Maybe that's why the gnomes are beating up the gloomy sad people. Prohibition.

[@christianmoralesortiz4688]

@@Egalitariat-likesecretariat pretty much!!!

[@LBuddG1]

Looked this up on a whim (Sunshine Makers). I still remember seeing it when I was little....give or take...about SIXTY years ago. I've seen it over the years...even. bought it for my grand daughter.. but NEVER in such perfect shape.... It's always had a special place in my heart. Thanks so much for preserving 'all the little guys' so beautifully....& that goes for us 'sad guys' too...even WE deserve to be happy sometimes!

[@fromthesidelines]

This was a "promotional" film for Borden's milk, originally released theatrically in early 1935.

[@darliskawhitaker1979]

💗💞💖

[@rohanquayle2645]

Simply hilarious, ancd brilliantly composed. A true classic!

[@thatundergroundflavorrareo3194]

Truly amazing restoration

[@theilnapp2222]

I was born in 2001 and we had a bus with all these old cartoons on it and I just watched these all the time

[@mattlydon3531]

I want that bus!

[@theilnapp2222]

CartoonLover5 AAHC AVGCP EDCP Haha my bad i meant either vhs or dvd i have no idea how i wrote bus

[@mattlydon3531]

Oh, sorry.

[@looneysprig]

I have a DVD that has this cartoon and I got it a long time ago I was probably 2 or 3 years old and I still have it and still watch it

[@ubilo]

One of my favorite childhood cartoons. They showed it a lot on TV in the 1950s.

[@LowellLucasJr.]

I always love the short as a kid and now as an adult, I am marveled at the beautiful Artistry and Brilliant lighting they gave the short!❤

[@seagullpie]

Actually, there's a new documentary using this very same title, and it's all about LSD.

[@reubenwalker9279]

hahaha good reply. lol

[@GlorabellaJBrealm]

The original We Happy Few

[@user-hf5bz8lk3n]

Rainbow Parade - The Sunshine Makers (1935) Opening Title & Closing (Tom and Jerry Vol.15)

[@user-hf5bz8lk3n]

A Van Beuren Cartoon Release On January 11, 1935

[@101Volts]

I got that reference... Not that the game seems to be that great. The story idea is great, but the execution of "We Happy Few" is a bit lacking. Maybe they just didn't have enough of a budget, or enough time, to make it well.

[@TheOriginalMoc]

i was trying to think of this for over 20 years i had a lot of these old cartoons back in the 90s and i can only recall certain scenes to a few of them, omg so much nostalgia.

[@ACanuckNamedTex]

this cartoon is so unintentionally dark and scary.

[@BansheePrinzess]

Well, most of the cartoons in the early days were violent. Think Tom & Jerry. Kids loved them.

[@SOULRELIEF22]

@@BansheePrinzess And now MANY acting out what they've seen!

[@potocrok]

OMG, I used to see this when I was a kid. We had this movie in a video tape. Thanks for sharing it! I love it.

[@marcioagnaldodani2937]

É sensacional esses desenhos

[@fromthesidelines]

Originally produced as part of Burt Gillett's "Rainbow Parade" series for Van Beuren (co-directed by Gillett and Ted Eshbaugh), and initially released in January 1935. Borden Milk later reissued this in 1940 as a promotional film for their dairy products.

[@zetamagnus101]

I'm glad I found a restored version of this cartoon

[@tiggerthomas]

I was always low key scared of this but the music kept me coming back

[@archtopp1]

Thanks for posting this! I haven't seen this since i was a child in the 40's in NYC. This brought back many memories. No one is doing cartoons like this anymore. It is and always will be an art form. In my opinion, this is animation at it's best!

[@TheBearSpiceKitchen]

I’m here from watching that scene in The Ring 2 where Aiden is watching this cartoon on the television ! 😎. “We’re happy when we’re sad” fit the tone of the scene.

[@dannanations5880]

I'm 14. I grew up on these cartoons. so glad I found this, so much nostalgia!

[@christianmoralesortiz4688]

In addition to the the explanation earlier, unlike sunshine that is common and abundant in NATURE, moonshine is rare and it can only be cultivate during the full moon where it is the most richest, sweetest, and most creamy and concentrated. And the moonshine has similar affect as SUNSHINE, except it calms you down or relaxes you as sunshine wakes you up,

[@trymints3657]

I never seen it as a kid, but it's interesting that there's a cartoon about sun worshippers.

[@aminaaltamimi7646]

I was smiling watching this cartoon it is full of positive vibes.. we must be sunshine makers tooooooo..

[@janetkraus8849]

Thanks for sharing.. This is a really good print..

[@nelsonhernandez3567]

im 20 right now. i watched this, one about a rooster fighting a duck for a gypsy queen, humpty dumpty, the little train, the three pigs, and one about the fly hotel and another about a barn dance with pigs in a sauna. another on the tea kettle party that goes awry due to a cow, and one about carrots and potatoes/vegetables getting kidnapped by mice + felix the cat. an unorthodox childhood to pay the least.

[@christianmoralesortiz4688]

again............IS NO ONE GOING TO MENTION THE FACT THAT THE SAD GUYS IS THE REASON WHY THIS WHOLE WAR HAPPENED IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!!!!! Also this whole thing is symbolic so.....

[@christianmoralesortiz4688]

Nate Ladd good point

[@nazihahere]

If only we had real sunshine drinks...

[@nazihahere]

But wouldn't the glass of water/sun have germs inside it since it was also exposed to the air for so long??? But wouldn't it evaporate???

[@christianmoralesortiz4688]

Fujoshi Here we do already, it's called orange juice!!!XD #YOUPRECIOUSCINNAMONBUN

[@nazihahere]

Nate Ladd Thanks for that knowledge! That was honestly one of the most interesting things I've heard of.

[@nazihahere]

Christian Morales Ortiz #YOURPRECIOUSCINNAMONBUN

[@CrimsonHelldrake]

we do, its called LSD in real life though

[@veldasl1460]

can't get enough of the 'Sunshine' song XD

[@krypten_bekk7247]

Hey I didn't know there were Emos in the 30s

[@Official_King_Penguin]

ROBERT MCGRATH More like goths.

[@krypten_bekk7247]

Yeah I guess your right

[@rigormortis230]

I used to watch this all the time on an old Felix the Cat dvd and I still love it

[@gnikcohs]

*HAIL* His Majesty The Sun!. *HAIL* Ted Eshbaugh.

[@Ian16545]

And *HAIL* Elsie and her family!

[@fromthesidelines]

AND hail Burt Gillett!

[@sscra8291]

This one is the best reproduction I've seen on KZbin yet. Thanks for posting.

[@WeemusStudio2017]

Great quality copy! Thanks, have loved this cartoon since I was a kid in the early 50s. My brother and I still sing the Sunshine Song. Great memories.

[@KWoodsification]

Pee Wee's playhouse brought me here.

[@doowopguy1]

thanks, it's probably been 60 years since I last saw this on NY television in the early 50's

[@StarryKitty]

Praise the sun! Caress the sun! *EFF* THE SUN

[@KarateKidX]

This is a prophetic allegory for the situation between Israel and the Palestinians. A weaker power makes a minor attack of the stronger one, perhaps because the stronger power is encroaching on their territory, and the stronger power responds with a massively disproportionate retaliation, and ultimately annexes the weaker power

[@steveomusicman6645]

amazing animation and color!

[@sebellealdaco6904]

I love this so much !

[@kydcr33pie]

i remember watching this on dvd on an old school macbook💔 Im a junior now dawg💔

[@bmack8607]

Back in the Fillmore East days, this cartoon was shown in between sets. The reference to sunshine and its acid implications was hilarious. It's still just a great cartoon.

[@OmegaZeero]

Omg I've been looking for this since the 90s. My cousin had his on VHS and we never remembered the name of it

[@joeguy1092]

Omega Zeero we had this on VHS too and it had several other cartoons on there also.

[@deandra21]

Anyone in 2018

[@lx4847]

Deandra 13 2019 tho

[@deshaun9729]

2019

[@fromthesidelines]

In 1946, Official Films released a 16mm black and white "home movie" edition of "Sunshine Makers" (without the original opening and closing titles) as part of their "Merry-Toon" series. Eventually, it was released by them for television in the 1950's.

[@KickUpHammyDude]

Sweet childhood. I never understood what was happening. All a knew was it was colourful there were good guys and bad guys and everyone was happy in the end!

[@usmale49]

What a great little cartoon. Thank you for uploading and sharing. Very cute, indeed!

[@minetvoster9091]

Brings back so many memories, thanks for this.

[@mendaciousc5208]

Paul sent me.

[@IgnarHusky]

Mendacious C Praise be the mighty Saltlord, PaulsEgo!

[@aenima72826]

Me too, glad he showed us this.

[@Carol-JCK]

*This video is my childhood. Nostalgia.*

[@BansheePrinzess]

I'm a little sad that there are so many comments making this something other than happy vs sad; sunshine vs darkness; love vs hate. That's exactly how we thought of it when we watched it in black and white 60 years ago. Innocence was sweet, and so was this cartoon.

[@herbfenton2668]

Yup Just a pure allegory Tremendously entertaining as are all early to mid twentieth century cartoons

[@samanthadean1083]

For anyone who might be too young to know, the bit when the Sunshine Maker reads the note in the empty bottle left on the step and then puts two bottles down? That is what they used to do when milk was delivered to your door in the mornings. They would usually leave one and reclaim the old bottles. But if you left a note asking for more in the empty bottle, then they would leave however many that you required, and your account would be charged extra. Just a little history for you! 😋

[@palamirtammarimuthu17]

I think this must have been during WWI ..... trying to uplift humanity! thanks 😍😍😍😍

[@kathleenattison7103]

Thanks for posting!!! A favorite of mine from a long time ago!!

[@kevinwalsh8971]

A war between joy and sadness

[@rkoorse]

This was a recurring viewing at the Fillmore East, Lower East Side, NYC back in the '60's and '70's. East coast sister to Fillmore West, run by rock impresario Bill Graham. Of course in those days, the word "sunshine" had it's drug connotation. But I thought of it more as a generational statement against the rigidity of "The Establishment."

[@rafaelramirez9109]

WOW what a great cartoon, trying to make people happy, thats really cool! love it! 👍👍🤗

[@Dachshund]

Excellent cartoon. One of the Van Beuren Studio's best.

[@yesbecause4474]

Oh my gosh!, "how are you..terrible,...that's fine. "😂😂😂

[@Official_King_Penguin]

By, the way the gnomes are the good ones. The sad guys attack one gnome for no reason. He attacks back and they start a war. So yeah. It is still converting them from teenage goth don't come in my room or I'll steal your soul kid to a Willie Nelson fan in Austin, Texas celebrating a garden gnomes party.

[@arianaellis2909]

New day of Light brings enjoyment and happiness thoughts killing the darkness thoughts.....

[@ianfortuna9385]

Old cartoons are the best

[@sethmaddox5069]

I've seen this when I was a kid.

[@volume10industries...24_7]

Excellent!

[@zakayriaanderson9427]

We tortured my mom with this cartoon as kids 🤣🤣 we used to act out the scenes

[@DeviantDespot]

This always reminds me of the Israeli Palestinian conflict.

[@nazgulringwraiths5618]

omg!!! I haven't seen this cartoon since I was in 3rd grade❤❤

[@JG-bp8dh]

One of my favorites! To the other comments- The sunshine is symbolism.

[@rauchfest6486]

Saw this at a Grateful Dead show intermission at Radio City Music hall in 1980.

[@Kimosabes2hot]

I'm so glad I'm not alone on this. The Sunshine guys were the evil ones and I refuse to be told otherwise!

[@SamuelMachadoFilho]

Lançamento nos EUA: 11 de janeiro de 1935. Produção: Amadee J. Van Beuren. Direção: Ted Eshbaugh e Burt Gillett. Animação: Thomas Goodson. Música: Winston Sharples. Distribuição original: RKO Radio Pictures. Relançado em 1941 pela Borden Company. Saiu em VHS no Brasil como "Fabricantes de luzes", pela extinta DIV, na coletânea "Gato Félix e seus companheiros".

[@BillMeacham]

A modern allegory of the eternal struggle between the forces of light and the forces of darkness. Very profound.

[@RobertBirtchImperfectStone]

Like the toxic positivity is really hard to ignore now that I'm older. It's like, let the sad guys be sad, they were perfectly fine with how they were and the sunshine guys just said, well, we'll make them be happy!

[@markoblazney6360]

that was like dosing' them unawares, see. like dem angels…….. unawares.

[@dravelenhawk2673]

What if the Sunshine is liquor, like _Moonshine_ ? And when you drink it, it makes you happy, like liquor. Those dwarves were on a drug business.

[@SOULRELIEF22]

Many folks become depressed when they drink!

[@KokoGogo1728]

"I DON'T WANNA BE HAPPY! I WANNA BE SAD!"

[@micronekogirlpur9641]

I honestly prefer the sad guys. at least they were more real. not not mention, those happy guys bombed, attacked, and forced the sad guys to convert. really, the happy go lucky guys were douch bags.

[@gnikcohs]

Well my pappy used to tell me: if you don't want to get counter-attacked then don't attack first. A Sadster tried to kill a Sunny and when he got counter-attacked the Sadsters launched an attack en masse and were heading INTO Sunny turf to invade and convert. Simple way to avoid that would have been to live and let live. The fact that you would prefer to live in Sadville is your right as long as you don't attack Sunnyville.- that is not your right and it is certainly not your right to do it with out reprisals.

[@micronekogirlpur9641]

true, they did attack first, but I still think the happy go lucky guys went a little too far. I mean it was one person who attacked, and they went all nuclear war on them.

[@gnikcohs]

MicroNeko GirlPur 4:35 the Sadster rings the bell,and by 5:00 there is a large group of Sadsters who form into a group to do what gets down to them. True the Sunnys then launched an all out counter attack, but it was not in response to one guy and they did seem to be minding their own business. If living your life in peace requires being constantly on the look out for unprovoked aggression, when that aggression comes then why not put an end to the source which is trying to do that to you. Those sad guys aren't just sad and gloomy they are murderous. If the Sunnys had done what the Sadsters did then it would be right to criticize them. Goth is fine, unprovoked violence in the name of Goth is not.

[@KarateKidX]

+gnikcohs The sunsine makers were clearly planning an invasion. Look at how prepared they were to carry it out. They already had cannons trained on the sadster's city.

[@gnikcohs]

+Sam I am

[@argharoy11011988]

First solar power run factory producing solar powered lights....so ahead of its time.

[@seanramsdell4172]

Don't the goblins look like Nixon?

[@jakegent3973]

Is this a Prozac commercial?

[@draconiclady0610]

Could be viewed as one now, but back in the day, this was a MILK commercial.

[@pavettoo]

LSD fits best

[@VictorHernandez-km4sx]

I have a DVD with all these little cartoons although I did always find them a little creepy these are memories

[@riantycutee]

My memory 😄,like this !!

[@aminaaltamimi7646]

Is anyone watching this cartoon is 2018 and admiring it?

[@juancarlosmorales548]

I got that on vhs. Also, Bloodwash brought me here

[@YoukuroKageStudios]

They're literally making ultraviolet radioactive mutagen which must be why their bellies start glowing. lol

[@acelynfury9992]

i loved this toon so much