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A Day at Coney Island
The Fleischer brothers had been turning out sound cartoons since 1924 with their 'screen song' series, but it was only in 1929 that they started to do full sound cartoons, most famously with 'Finding His Voice' but also with this piece. Here, we see an ark full of many different sorts of animal; spotting Coney Island, the captain announces shore leave and they all head out for some fun. There are a lot of gags, very advanced for the era, as was typical for Fleischer in this period, and some of them are very adult.
Interestingly enough, I see many signs of the sort of cartooning that Ted Geisel would do under his pen name of Dr. Seuss. The captain looks like a Seuss character and two sequences are very much in his style: the sequence where the animals head ashore to the opening bars of "The Stars and Stripes Forever" and the sequence with the kootch dancer and the snakes.
Although there is no sign that Geisel was associated with this film, he was already working as a cartoonist in this period. Perhaps some biographer will turn up a connection....
Interestingly enough, I see many signs of the sort of cartooning that Ted Geisel would do under his pen name of Dr. Seuss. The captain looks like a Seuss character and two sequences are very much in his style: the sequence where the animals head ashore to the opening bars of "The Stars and Stripes Forever" and the sequence with the kootch dancer and the snakes.
Although there is no sign that Geisel was associated with this film, he was already working as a cartoonist in this period. Perhaps some biographer will turn up a connection....
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- boblipton
- Sep 18, 2009
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- Runtime8 minutes
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- 1.20 : 1
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