It’s a pretty short one today since it’s a time-crunch here to get something done in the next day or so! I’m really looking forward to having less things on the plate here; for some reason everything is sort of due at once. As I’m finishing the thing that’s due tomorrow, I took a break for a quick Thunderbean Thursday. I’ll have big news soon from Thunderbean – but we’ll get through the current things here first so I have something to share.
Today’s cartoon!
To relax a little, I’ve been hunting through various cartoons that have used the music from the Rainbow Parades as stock music so we can have a ‘music only’ selection for a film or two on the ‘Rainbow Parades 2’ set. I came across this cartoon from the ‘Aesop’s Fables’ volume 1 Blu-ray, and thought it
Calling a cartoon Hunting in 1950 in 1926 seems like a great idea— and presents all kinds of possibilities.
Sadly, there isn’t *anything* in this particular film that would suggest that the film was set 24 years in the future. While it’s not clever in that way, there’s a lot of fun gags to make it at least an enjoyable but somewhat thin-plot-ed cartoon.
The plot that is there consists of Al hunting. This includes chasing a bear with a rifle, then chasing a skating leopard (getting its spots knocked off at one point). There’s a few other little humorous moments including a knight’s armor gag, if that’s your thing. There’s also an enjoyable sequence featuring the various jungle animals dancing to piano music that has pretty happy animation. My favorite gag has Farmer Al waiting for a Lion to get his nails trimmed and sanded before Al’s allowed to shoot him- leaving him waiting on a rock and having a fantasy in a thought bubble of the dead lion. Somehow the dead lion’s body makes him giggle. Despite being around animals in nearly every film, he has a terrible animal rights record!
As I’m trying to find whatever music pieces I can for the Rainbow set, I was especially happy to hear the track on this one since it features a pretty nice piece of music from the end of Bold King Cole. What else can you identify?
Have a good week all, and stay away from stampedes!
