When I was looking for this , I literally googled “old cartoon with book characters coming out of their books”

@staceycurtis8983

5 ай бұрын

same!! I googled pretty much same thing 😆

@danielgaul284

Ай бұрын

I began to do the same, then I remembered the song at the end (sung by the Three Musketeers)

This is so weird, I remember watching this when I was younger and I didn't really understand it, but it left a big impact on me and I'm glad I rediscovered it lol

@adammcneil1313

7 ай бұрын

u are a horrible person with Worst times or Ass**** idiots!!!!!

@SinfolCat

5 ай бұрын

@@adammcneil1313u look like my brother

@BeautyGoddess-cz6cz

4 ай бұрын

I watched it too in my childhood.

@galaxypaintbrush9310

2 ай бұрын

Same

@christianmoralesortiz4688

2 ай бұрын

Same!!

On that note, what's always surprised me about this particular cartoon is how they let Uncle Tom get away with punching out Rip Van Winkle. THAT is very unusual. I've always wondered if this cartoon was shown censored in southern states for that reason. I'm surprised that scene was even in there at all.

@BlackMasterRoshi

4 ай бұрын

Rip Van Winkle was a carpetbagger, why would they care?

@midorifox

2 ай бұрын

It looks like people understood satire.

Man. I was a latchkey kid and my parents always worked nights. I only had a few VHS tapes to keep me company those lonely nights and one of them was a three-cartoons tape and this one was on it, it was my favorite lol.. Nostalgic.

@wickedfeylady

8 жыл бұрын

I had a tape with this cartoon on it too, when I was very young. Lots of memories

@WombatLoveAffair

7 жыл бұрын

Did it have woody woodpecker on the front?

@jurisfootrag

6 жыл бұрын

Yes it did! Holy crap lol

@eddie1134

5 жыл бұрын

I too had the woody wood pecker video....lost in time but the memories live in inside me.

@janeporter818

5 жыл бұрын

Same here!

My daughter is watching this one for the first time and she's absolutely is loving it.. I can't believe these cartoon can get a 11 year old off the laptop and cell phone. she's like omg mom yall had the best cartoons ever! Lol..

@genericasianperson6405

2 ай бұрын

Can it still get her off her phone?

@commanderclaus.

2 ай бұрын

a bit too many racist caricatures for an 11 year old, no? I hope you clarified to her at some point, at least.

Frank Tashlin, the man who directed this cartoon, later went on to make live-action comedies, most notably ones that starred Jerry Lewis.

@BuddyFellows-xd9yn

4 ай бұрын

Good ol’ Tish Tash

A few little things to note: 1. The Town Crier is a caricature of Alexander Woollcott. Scenes with him were originally edited out at the order of his estate, but were recently restored. 2. The Good Earth is saying, "Please bless Papa Leon and Uncle Ray", a reference to Producer Leon Schlesinger and business manager Ray Katz, who both worked for Warner Brothers and oversaw the animation department. 3 . The singers are caricatures of the Mills Brothers and Cab Calloway. 4. When the Thin Man walks past on the desk, the memo on the desk reads "Ask the Boss for a raise". 5. The tune that plays when the Thin Man walks past is "I'm A Nut" or "The Acorn Song". 6. The book "Bulldog Drummin" is a reference to the fictional character "Bulldog Drummond". 7. The earlier Merrie Melodies cartoons were advertising vehicles for songs in the Warner Brothers music library. These cartoon shorts helped to sell records and sheet music for songs sold under the Warner label. Most of these had no discernible plot; it was just a way to sell the song. Some of the songs that were featured in these older shorts would be used as background music in later Merrie Melodies/Looney Tunes cartoons.

@Hotshotter3000

8 жыл бұрын

+PatrickRsGhost Thanks for the trivia. I always wanted to know more about the forgotten past of these cartoons. They would have been widely known at the time of release, but since then most of the details fall into obscurity.

@PatrickRsGhost

8 жыл бұрын

Hotshotter3000 I think this is what makes animation in general so great. Nowadays it's been cast off as something only children love, but back when this and other animated short films were produced and released, especially by the big movie companies (Warner Brothers, MGM, Paramount), adults were more likely to see them than the kids. In later years they were toned down for kids, but not by much. Cartoons can be seen as a form of pop culture. They always have, and always will, satirize the world and it era in which they were produced. Though they may seem stupid and silly, they really are a study in pop culture, from caricatures to parodies to other forms of tributes. I'd imagine 50 to 100 years from now, people will watch the cartoons produced within the last 20-some years, and like we tend to do today, regard them as stupid and juvenile at first, but when those people look closer, and study up on their history, they'll learn we'd satirized certain aspects of the lifestyles we faced in this time, celebrities, movies, books, and TV shows we all love. When someone in 2085 watches an episode of "The Fairly Oddparents", they might not have a clue as to what Timmy, Cosmo, or Wanda are referencing when they say or do something, but if they read up on their history as to what life was like in 2003 or so, they'll understand. When they're watching an episode of South Park and wonder about why they hated on Scientology, they can read about how everyone thought it was a crackpot cult when it aired. What's always cool is when I read about something relating to the history of the era when the cartoon was made, and then it suddenly reminds me of the cartoon. Like I could be reading a book or watching a show about how people in the U.S. and in the U.K. during the Second World War were encouraged to plant "Victory Gardens" for their own families, and I'd suddenly think back to all of the cartoons with scenes where a character planted or tended to a garden labeled "Victory Garden".

@CrashandTrash596

8 жыл бұрын

I love understanding the context of the jokes of the era. Thanks for the info.

@spindalis79

8 жыл бұрын

You are correct. Mr. Woolcott asked to have his character be cut from the short when he died. He passed away in 1944.

@PatrickRsGhost

8 жыл бұрын

That reminds me, I need to look more closely at "The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos", another cartoon that featured a caricature of Woollcott ("Owlcott"). I can't remember if it was edited to remove him from that one or not. It's easy to see where the scenes were spliced back in on this cartoon, but the other one? I can't remember.

“You have any mortgages you wanna have paid? Baby?!” 😂😂😂😂😂😂

I had this in my "500 of the greatest cartoons" vhs. It had tons of classics. I still whistle "All's Well" from the Gabby cartoons 28 years later. Anyone else have the vhs?

One of my childhood classics!

That part with the monsters coming out was freaky at first.

2:21 If you are wondering the song in Green Pastures, it's Cab Calloway - Swing For Sale.

@frankz3595

5 жыл бұрын

That song was originally in Merrie Melodies’ “Clean Pastures” from 1937

I had a difficult time remembering that Frankenstein's Monster was NOT supposed to be the first Terminator. Also, their Sugar Plum Fairy dance was hilarious.

Interesting times back then, always liked these musical cartoons when i was a kid.

4:44 ... Awww, now I know why Old King Cole was so merry with his fidlers three! The King of Swing!

5:15 Uncle Tom punches Rip Van Wrinkle lol

@nintendorakyamato1859

5 жыл бұрын

That’s for cutting his hair

This cartoon is an effing classic! One of my childhood favorites!!! I remember watching this back when I was in Kindergarten every Friday afternoon after school along with several other episodes!!!

@yahulwagoni4571

5 жыл бұрын

It's bojangly good, yessir!

Man, I swear I remember this from my childhood.

One of my favorite cartoons as a child. I especially liked the Green Pastures segment. Despite what many say, I don't find it offensive. I remember rewinding or fast forwarding to that scene because of how catchy the song and dance were. Heck, the ending chase scene always had me laughing even to this day.

@njf11-

Ай бұрын

That’s what’s on my mind too. Obviously it uses offensive depictions, but there’s an argument to be made that nothing in the actual segment is inherently racist.

I think I remember seeing this on boomerang years ago, back when it actually played classics.

@canaisyoung3601

6 жыл бұрын

Jon foy Did they cut the racial caricatures? And let me guess,: it was the version without Alex Woolcott.

Finally I've found this cartoon, I had it on vhs as a kid along with a few other old cartoons - as a four year old I had no idea about the movie stars it was parodying but now I'm older and a fan of classic cinema it's interesting to see the caricatures, here's the ones I recognise: - Various Lon chaneys as movie monsters, maybe a parody of the 'Lon Chaneys gonna get you' musical number from Hollywood review of 1929 - Greta Garbo on the cover of 'So big' - Bill Bojangles Robinson (famous for being in a bunch of Shirley Temple movies)dancing on the stairs - Cab Calloway - William Powell as Nick Charles in 'The thin man' - no idea who the 'little women' are but the 'little men' look like child actor Freddie Bartholomew - 7 Clark Gable's - Charles Laughton on the cover of 'mutiny on the bounty' - W.C fields and his red nose

@LastLaugh11

8 жыл бұрын

Dont forget Paul Muni as Louis Pasteur!

@alexrodriguera4096

7 жыл бұрын

More caricatures include: Jane Withers as the little women, Edward Arnold as Diamond Jim, Victor McLaglen as The Informer

@acla9000

6 жыл бұрын

Alex Rodriguera And if I'm not wrong Freddie Bartholomew incorporated the Little Men.

@tammyabraham9394

6 жыл бұрын

Plz.

@PhilBagels

6 жыл бұрын

Who was the Town Crier?

Old King Cole... was a noisy old soul.

@corjonbett

6 жыл бұрын

I'll get out my scissors that cut...

@RBlair69

5 жыл бұрын

👊👊👊👊👊

Who said reading wasn't fun

@peterturner345

5 жыл бұрын

retro junkie everybody watching this instead of reading the books lol 🤕

oh fantastic famous 1938 years old from cartoon animation!!

Brilliant! Damn, I miss Cab Calloway!

@spindalis79

8 жыл бұрын

The last of those dancing ladies portrayed (as part of the Harlem Renaissance) died at the age of 103 this year. Her name was Alice Barker.

@SOULRELIEF22

5 жыл бұрын

Even MORE brilliant is the HEAVEN they spoofed! HALLELUJAH! St John 3:16! 💓

thank you soo much for posting this. im sad it took me this long to find it..ive been getting random memories from my childhood of this little cartoon bit...and my nostalgia nodes are overwhelmed thank you! ^_^ nothin beats childhood nostalgia! :D

God! I haven't seen this cartoon since I was a kid! This sure brings back memories

Wow i thought i would never find this~! It was on an old vhs i had as a kid with some old cartoons on it (i too, never thought they were THAT old!) and tried to find some of them today cos somehow i still remember bits of the songs (must of played it a thousand times as a kid) and was in my head this morning sooo.... All i remember of this one was the globe thing praying, the black singers (but i only remember the song!) and oliver twist twisting.... soooo hard to find based on that! finally got it with google search of "old cartoon with book characters" (since i remembered it had oliver twist...) watching it was fun, a lot came back! But was very different to how i remembered it...and as someone else said i think i had the edited version without the town crier. Anyway lots of wasted time but i found it XD

@VentiVonOsterreich

10 жыл бұрын

Your treasure hunt was worth it.

@mirawillis5200

10 жыл бұрын

I had that tape too! I mostly remembered the dancing monsters part lol, and probably because my grandmother happened to have those exact books, in the order, in her bookcase! :P

@i.c.wiener7221

9 жыл бұрын

Same! It was my grandmothers tape...so sad I never got it. But thankfully I got to watch it again, which was just fantastic!

@rileygilladventures

9 жыл бұрын

Do any of you remember the name of the cartoon that blue ribbon released with this? It had stories of huckleberry Finn and a bird flying as high as it could, please that'd be really helpful

@ixie122

9 жыл бұрын

I had a tape with this on it. 50 funny cartoons is what it was called. I remember it being slightly different though.

2:18 Words cannot express how much I love this little guy. I want him to sit on my desk and do his little thing all day. What a funky little man

@commanderclaus.

2 ай бұрын

would be quite a joyful character to me if he wasn't a racial caricature

@d4n737

2 ай бұрын

@@commanderclaus. I don't care, I love him either way. He's an icon. A myth. A legend

I used to have a dvd with this cartoon on it. I remember watching Snow White and Thumbelina on that dvd as well. 😍

I didn't get any of the references when I saw this as a kid. Now I do.

Wowwww, all great clasic books!! Super idea they had!

I remember watching this on my dvd's. adorable.

House of Seven Clark Gables. lol

A brillant cartoon - a celebration of all the film and music greats of the era The timing and the score are unforgettable. It's my all time fav toon. This is miles ahead of Mother Goose Goes To Hollywood that Disney did earlier. There's another toon that captures the same spirit of Hollywood but is placed in a nightclub Anyone know the name? Thank you CC!

@chrisirion9649

9 жыл бұрын

Phillip Pacheco Hollywood Steps Out

@Barber747

8 жыл бұрын

***** Wonder where that one is?

@canaisyoung3601

6 жыл бұрын

barber747 Hollywood Steps Out is on one of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD sets (the second one, I think).

I have been looking for this FOR SO LONG. I watched this several times when I was, like, four and since then I have wondered what it was called and wanted to rematch it. Finally I have found it, I am satisfied.

♫ Old King Cole, I'm a merry old soul ♫

@reddragon8488

Ай бұрын

🎵But, the, old, boy, loves, to, have, his, fling🎵

Despite the racism, this cartoon always puts me in the best mood. A cozy library full of books, vivid animated imagination, and catchy music - just incredibly awesome.

Still neat stuff here.

I still own the DVDs with these kinds of cartoons and I remember how much my parents would watch these cartoons with me. I remember my mom and I watching this episode on the big tv in the living room when I was younger.

The tape I had always cut off everything past 6:36. I always thought that was the ending.

@traeyboy529

7 жыл бұрын

It basically was the end of the stupidity

@EddieMillerStudios

7 жыл бұрын

If you watch this, you can tell where the film was cut.

@AEMoreira81

5 жыл бұрын

After Alexander Woollcott died in 1943, all of his imagery and voice was deleted from the film. It wouldn't be restored until the 2000s.

OH GOD MY CHILDHOOD

Bless you I've been looking for this cartoon for a long time

As good as this cartoon is, I have to say the songs are too catchy. These tunes have been stuck in my brain for days!

This is pretty cool. Thanks Patti-Cakes!!!

3:15 The Thin Man is making me laughing

My second favorite cartoon of all time! Thanks for uploading this. I remember going crazy trying to find this a few months ago and now it's here.

This use to scare the hell outta me

@TheAnchorArmsChad

6 жыл бұрын

Anita Toronto how come?

@marisafaith8664

6 жыл бұрын

Ikr

@danielruthers7380

6 жыл бұрын

Anita Toronto I always had to fast forward my vcr at the start of it

@acla9000

6 жыл бұрын

Do you mean the WB logo?

@MachoMan_Vert

6 жыл бұрын

Anita Toronto Why tho?

the part with the monsters was the best part

When Rip Van Winkle opened the hurricane book, I thought that he was planning to go in the book to sleep.

@elizabethalvarado8698

8 жыл бұрын

I don't think anyone would want to sleep someplace where there's a lot of noise, unless one is tired enough.

@alexanderpytko5394

8 жыл бұрын

Elizabeth Alvarado He probably is.

@jacobmalic5037

6 жыл бұрын

6:28 I’M GONNA ROCK YOU. LIKE AN HURRICANE

@alexanderpytko5394

5 жыл бұрын

Well, it was when I was a kid before I could read.

IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS GOD DAMN CARTOON FOR AGES I remember watching this on VHS when I was a TINY baby

Omg thankyou for posting! I had this song stuck in my head for a while

Damn! I remember this cartoon! I think it's aged really well! Even today this is one of my favorite cartoons!

4:44, they used the term 'bling' as far back as 1938?!? Dang, the more things change, the more they stay the same!

@buxombeautease

9 жыл бұрын

ShadowOfTheSea "because he had his FLING (good time)."

wow just wow this can get u hyped all night long

Its nice to see this again, it was last shown on TV back in the early 1970's, but in an edited form that was maybe 3 & 1/2 to 4 minutes long. The 1970's were the last time alot of cartoons got shown & 90% of the WWII cartoons had been taken out of play rotation. Its great to see them in their entirity finaly. TY for posting

FYI: Those yellow lines you see sliding back and forth across the screen at :35 and 1:05 and again at 6:35 are editor's marks indicating a fade-in / fade-out transition where the Alexander Woolcott bits were edited out for reissues (aka the "Blue Ribbon" prints like this one) after the original 1938 run of this film. The Woolcott scenes here have - obviously - been restored to this print.

The green pastures part absolutely slaps imo

@diaquallo

2 ай бұрын

Facts

@reddragon8488

Ай бұрын

The magic of cab calloway

The quality of the work still amazes me.

I had this as a kid on a short collection of cartoons VHS with Woody Woodpecker on the front. The cartoons were in order: 1. Pantry Panic (Woody Woodpecker) 2. Boy Meets Dog 3. Have You Got Any Castles 4. The Old Shell Game

@atomic7196

6 жыл бұрын

i actually kinda remember having that tape. I also have a porky pig tape with this cartoon on it.

Remember seeing this bit on 50 Classics as a kid.

OMG i've been looking for this forever!!!

Lots of Warners Cartoons I've never seen! Thanks!

my mom bought the cd and me and my siblings would watch this ALL THE TIME

i had this on a VHS as kid but was missing the beginning and end away cut to starting scene with the Frankenstein. Thanks for sharing

@canaisyoung3601

6 жыл бұрын

Renee Lagrandeur That was because Alex Woollcott (the fat guy ringing the bell at the behinning and the end of the cartoon) didn't like the caricature of himself and asked it be removed on reissue. It's a good thing they still had those scenes so they could reinstate them on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD set.

@AEMoreira81

5 жыл бұрын

@@canaisyoung3601 Actually, it was removed after he died in 1943.

You'll notice some lines at 0:34, 1:07, and 6:36. After Alexander Woollcott died in 1943, his caricature was edited out of future theatrical releases (those lines indicate cut marks). However, the original footage was still stored and when released on DVD, the original Woollcott footage, not having been seen in decades, was restored. The cuts were 33 seconds at the start and then after the 6 minute 36 second mark (replaced by fade-outs and fade-ins).

@ClassicTVMan1981X

Ай бұрын

The very first re-releases still had the Woollcott caricatures intact, and also the Rip Van Winkle caricature sleeping on the silenced cuckoo clock, but after Woollcott's estate intervened later in 1947, was when the cuts you describe were made, and hence why this lost footage had resurfaced on the Golden Collection Volume 2 print in 2004.

I miss a puppet show from Williamsburg that felt pretty old when I was surfing channels. These type of cartoons make me more happy than modern nickelodeon shows because it's pretty similar to the puppet show.

God I've been trying to find this for SO long I had this recorded on VHS amongst a bunch of Woody Woodpecker episodes and when this one came on I always hid under the covers because it scared the shit out of me so I never watched it fully It still kinda creeps me out tbh

What a great cartoon. I love these old cartoons. I can watch them all day. J.M.R. 2018

Very nice Cartoon. These days no longer make cartoons like this. I salute you from Romania

I remember watching this over and over again on a vhs tape when I was a kid.

I remember watching this when my nan sent back vhs while she was out in new york.

There's also the PSA with "Have You Got Any Bonds?" with Bugs Bunny,Elmer Fudd and others using the same tune.

One of my fav episodes

This is my favorite anime

My favorite part is Old King Cole. I just love that catchy tune.

I had this on a VHS of random cartoons and this was one of them. Brought back memories.

face thanks for posting this episode

First time I watch this cartoon with complete ending, in Mexico was edited to finish at the Gone with the wind gag.

@thehernandezmediacorporation

8 жыл бұрын

+Juan Jacobo Guzman When this cartoon was re-released in the 1940's, the town crier scenes were cut out at the insistence of Alexander Woolcott, who was caricatured as the town crier in this cartoon.

@ClassicTVMan1981X

8 жыл бұрын

That was how it ended in syndication here in the U.S. as well. The edit was at the request of Alexander Woollcott himself. The opening scene with Woollcott was also removed from these airings.

nice collection of toons thanks

Amazing restoration!!

Back in the day this cartoon used to be unsettling and creep me out. But now I'm in love with how many references I'm catching. Even the bgm used at the start and end were also played on the merry go round in Roller Coaster Tycoon

I love how this short is from characters from well-known books singing merrily to a war to all of these characters getting sent in the book "gone with the wind"

I was looking for this one specifically yay

Jesus, it's been nearly 15 years since I last saw this cartoon. Such fuzzy, wonderous memories.

I love this so much I watched this when I was kid took me years to find it again

Rip Van Winkle is played by a 30 year-old Mel Blanc.

Love this one! I remember seeing on Merry Melodies, etc.

3:06 Cab Calloway in a nut shell

I remember having this on VHS as a child

I have this on an old vhs tape somewhere, always like to see it once and a while.

I remember old king cole being a hell of a lot scarier.

Man, last time I saw this I was far too young to understand any of this. The colours are way better than they were on that VHS tape I had. Thank god for google helping me to find this again. The All Quiet On The Western Front joke had me chuckling pretty good

Heidi is still the best moment of this whole thing. :P

This is one of my most memorable cartoons. I have this on an old vhs I got from a store called Five and Dime back in the late 80's. This will NEVER see the light of day on TV these days.

@canaisyoung3601

6 жыл бұрын

David J If you can believe it, Cartoon Network once aired this and didn't cut the racial caricatures (they did cut the Alex Woollcott scenes, but that's not their fault; they just had the reissue version).

I have this on vhs and I never stop watching the same part

Did anybody see rip van winkle get rocked?

WOW! I have never seen this in color before...only the black & white version...pretty cool, thank you for posting:)

This was my favorite cartoon when I was a kid...ahhh good old days

As this cartoon was being restored, those white lines that you see represent where the cartoon had been cut for rerelease on February 1, 1947. These cuts were made at the request of the estate of Alex Woollcott (he's the town crier you see at the beginning and near the end). Also removed from the reissue print was the Rip Van Winkle caricature finally getting rest on a silenced cuckoo clock.