Fleischer Talkartoon "Barnacle Bill"

[frizfrelengfan]

Check this one out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBKAG0ut9Ds

I had never seen it until last week. I was familiar with the Popeye cartoon that features the song, but not this one. It's a lot of fun!


It features the "ugly" Bimbo and the "dog" Betty Boop, as they appear in "Dizzy Dishes."
It's very funny. Much of the humor is raunchy, pre-code stuff.
There is a lot of Fleischer surrealism (bending steps, a shrinking door) and inanimate objects coming to life (a couch, lightning bolts).
It must be one of the first cartoons on which Seymour Kneitel receives credit.

[Fibber Fox]

Is it my imagination, or at about 5:05 when the gossipy cats appear, isn't the song "Meow" that was used in Warners cartoons?

Everything moves this cartoon, doesn't it?

F. Fox

[Ray Pointer]

Is it my imagination, or at about 5:05 when the gossipy cats appear, isn't the song "Meow" that was used in Warners cartoons?

Everything moves this cartoon, doesn't it?

F. Fox

Yes, to both questions. Seymour Kneitel had been promoted to Animator by this time, and this was one of his first credits as such, but I'm not certain that it was his first.

[Fibber Fox]

Yes, to both questions. Seymour Kneitel had been promoted to Animator by this time, and this was one of his first credits as such, but I'm not certain that it was his first.

Thanks, Ray. I had presumed by the nature of Warners cartoons that it was a song Stalling pulled out of a Warner's library.

I have tried a number of web searches for the song and finally found one. This version is from 1919 and Irving Kaufman recorded it for Edison.

http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/mp3s/5000/5942/cusb-cyl5942d.mp3

The sheet music, for anyone who wants to play it on their py-anni:

http://odin.indstate.edu/about/units/rbsc/kirk/PDFs/sm1919_meow.pdf

F. Fox.

[Sogturtle]

Yes, to both questions. Seymour Kneitel had been promoted to Animator by this time, and this was one of his first credits as such, but I'm not certain that it was his first.

Ray~

Well stated answer!:) From what I can see, it is Seymour's first KNOWN credited appearance as animator. But with the chaos that ensued with four top Fleischer "animators" quitting at the same moment it's amazing and to Fleischer's credit that they would REALLY give animation screen credit to Kneitel and all the barely-past inbetweener youthful staff:cool: .

(And it should be added that this situation left only full "animators" Grim Natwick and Ted Sears on staff along with former assistant, Rudy Zamora to steer the cartoons. That is until several of the newbie-animators showed their talent, and Sears and Natwick quit and headed west).

[DDC]

When I first saw this one, I was quite amazed by the jump in production quality, for want of a better term, over "Dizzy Dishes" which I believe was only made a few months or so before. As has been mentioned before, this one has most of the trademark Fleisher moments; inanimate objects coming to life, pre code raunchiness, and a fairly catchy soundtrack.

[Jack G.]

Classic Fleischer!

Makes me wish the a Betty Boop + Talkartoons set would happen.

[Cartman]

Thanks, Ray. I had presumed by the nature of Warners cartoons that it was a song Stalling pulled out of a Warner's library.

I have tried a number of web searches for the song and finally found one. This version is from 1919 and Irving Kaufman recorded it for Edison.

http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/mp3s/5000/5942/cusb-cyl5942d.mp3

The sheet music, for anyone who wants to play it on their py-anni:

http://odin.indstate.edu/about/units/rbsc/kirk/PDFs/sm1919_meow.pdf

F. Fox.
That's kind of a cruel song isn't it? Drowning a cat.

Anyway, as for the cartoon BARNACLE BILL, I loved it. I can't really think of any Talkartoons I've seen that I don't care too much for.