frizfrelengfan
08-01-2008, 08:59 PM
I saw this one for the first time recently. It was the first color WB cartoon (in Cinecolor), and one of only five supervised by the mysterious Earl Duvall. It's available on the Busby Berkeley Collection DVD (the first one; the second BB collection is due this year).
I would like to see more cartoons from this era despite the reputation that these were lean years for WB cartoons. I found this one to be very enjoyable. It has an adult theme, a honeymooning bug couple, and is quite suggestive. It features a peeping Tom and a bunch of hotel workers who won't leave the couple alone, and at the end suggests that the couple's passion is so hot that it causes a fire. I suspect that this one was in the pipeline before the Hays code went into effect and for that reason is really a pre-code cartoon despite the 1934 date.
The title song in this cartoon is quite catchy and hummable. And the lyrics are quite funny. Priceless lyric: "Here's a little alimony dodger/In the Bugtown county jail."
I would like to see more cartoons from this era despite the reputation that these were lean years for WB cartoons. I found this one to be very enjoyable. It has an adult theme, a honeymooning bug couple, and is quite suggestive. It features a peeping Tom and a bunch of hotel workers who won't leave the couple alone, and at the end suggests that the couple's passion is so hot that it causes a fire. I suspect that this one was in the pipeline before the Hays code went into effect and for that reason is really a pre-code cartoon despite the 1934 date.
The title song in this cartoon is quite catchy and hummable. And the lyrics are quite funny. Priceless lyric: "Here's a little alimony dodger/In the Bugtown county jail."