You're an Education

You're An Education
Directed byFrank Tashlin
Story byDave Monahan
Produced byLeon Schlesinger
Music byCarl W. Stalling
Animation byRobert McKimson
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • November 5, 1938 (1938-11-05)
October 26, 1946 (Blue Ribbon reissue)
Running time
6:58
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

You're An Education is a Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon supervised by Frank Tashlin[1][2] and released on November 5, 1938.[3]

Plot

Lterary characters magically come to life during a midnight adventure. It unfolds with travel agency brochures. As a globe spins, it reveals the agency's window decorated with posters of different countries. A song plays as the ads come to life. The song mentions various foods, leading to humorous references to places like Hungary, Turkey, and the Sandwich Islands.

Then the Thief of Baghdad uses the Florida Keys to break into a diamond mine, only to pawn them with the Pawnee Indians. He is pursued by soldiers and police from different nations but finds an unexpected ally in the Lone Stranger, enabling his escape.

Reception

The film is described as "little more than strings of disconnected gags".[4]

Home media

References

  1. ^ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 29. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
  2. ^ Seife, Ethan de (April 16, 2012). Tashlinesque: The Hollywood Comedies of Frank Tashlin. Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 978-0-8195-7241-7.
  3. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 104–106. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7.
  4. ^ Seife, Ethan de (2005). Cheerful Nihilism: The Films of Frank Tashlin. University of Wisconsin--Madison.


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