Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuHappy sunshine-bottling gnomes battle gloomy swamp-dwellers.Happy sunshine-bottling gnomes battle gloomy swamp-dwellers.Happy sunshine-bottling gnomes battle gloomy swamp-dwellers.
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"The Sunshine Makers" was sponsored by Borden and it's the sort of film that just screams out 'THIS IS JUST A GIANT ADVERTISEMENT' to the audience. I noticed one reviewer loved it--I just thought it was a blatant attempt by Borden to brain-wash audiences.
The film consists of happy gnomes (which I think are supposed to represent Borden) and nasty creatures in black who LIKE gloom and depression. However, the happy gnomes squirt milk (huh?!) on the gloomy guys and it makes their black clothes spread sunshine!! Naturally, the gloomy guys don't like this and do on the attack. But, with the power of milk (one of Borden's biggest selling products), the cute gnomes vanquish the dark jerks and spread color (or at least Cinecolor with its rather limited color spectrum) all about. Three cheers for the gnomes...those corporate shills! Preachy and dumb but at least the animation is reasonably good for 1935.
The film consists of happy gnomes (which I think are supposed to represent Borden) and nasty creatures in black who LIKE gloom and depression. However, the happy gnomes squirt milk (huh?!) on the gloomy guys and it makes their black clothes spread sunshine!! Naturally, the gloomy guys don't like this and do on the attack. But, with the power of milk (one of Borden's biggest selling products), the cute gnomes vanquish the dark jerks and spread color (or at least Cinecolor with its rather limited color spectrum) all about. Three cheers for the gnomes...those corporate shills! Preachy and dumb but at least the animation is reasonably good for 1935.
I agree with the other reviewer here that this primitive-looking 70-year-old cartoon is more than what first meets the eye. I'm not saying it's any award- winner but it was intriguing.
It would be easy to dismiss at first because of the unimpressive graphics and fairly poor quality print. It's probably very difficult to get a good print of this but I'm sure it would enhance the story.
That story is a simple one of Hobbit-like creatures who seem to worship the sun and they bottle it in the form of milk, which they deliver around town. The scenes in them are in reddish-orange and white. The "bad guys" are in the woods nearby and they sing "We're only happy when we're sad." Their scenes are all in blue-and-white. Like Dracula figures, if sunlight hits them, it's not good for them. (Actually, it is because it changes them into laughing, happy people.)
They try to sabotage of positive-thinking, cheery people. The second half of the story is the war between the two groups. One is flinging milk bottle and the other a poisonous gas.
This is a fantasy story, pure-and-simple, not a comedy. It's not going to provoke many laughs, if any, but it different enough to be an interesting seven-and-a-half minutes. It also has an excellent message. Some people may say, act or think "I don't want to be happy," but deep inside nobody wants that. I believe that was the message here in this battle between "positive" and "negative" people.
The cartoon was "brought to you" by the Borden Milk Company. Hmmm, that explains why milk was the "good" product.
It would be easy to dismiss at first because of the unimpressive graphics and fairly poor quality print. It's probably very difficult to get a good print of this but I'm sure it would enhance the story.
That story is a simple one of Hobbit-like creatures who seem to worship the sun and they bottle it in the form of milk, which they deliver around town. The scenes in them are in reddish-orange and white. The "bad guys" are in the woods nearby and they sing "We're only happy when we're sad." Their scenes are all in blue-and-white. Like Dracula figures, if sunlight hits them, it's not good for them. (Actually, it is because it changes them into laughing, happy people.)
They try to sabotage of positive-thinking, cheery people. The second half of the story is the war between the two groups. One is flinging milk bottle and the other a poisonous gas.
This is a fantasy story, pure-and-simple, not a comedy. It's not going to provoke many laughs, if any, but it different enough to be an interesting seven-and-a-half minutes. It also has an excellent message. Some people may say, act or think "I don't want to be happy," but deep inside nobody wants that. I believe that was the message here in this battle between "positive" and "negative" people.
The cartoon was "brought to you" by the Borden Milk Company. Hmmm, that explains why milk was the "good" product.
The Sunshine Makers (1935)
*** (out of 4)
Catchy animated short has a bunch of gnomes gathering up sunshine, turning it into milk and then passing it around to people so that they can be happy. One gnome ends up running across an unhappy man who lives in the dark forest with many other unhappy people. Soon the gnomes are trying to pour milk on them so that they too will be happy.
I was surprised to see how much I enjoyed this film and I was even more shocked to see that it was rather catchy. This really comes across as a dark fairy tell where the happy people must venture into a dark area and try to make the bad people see why they should be good. Of course, the selling point here is that milk makes people happy. I thought the animation itself was quite good and I really liked the simple story and the song itself was very good and catchy.
*** (out of 4)
Catchy animated short has a bunch of gnomes gathering up sunshine, turning it into milk and then passing it around to people so that they can be happy. One gnome ends up running across an unhappy man who lives in the dark forest with many other unhappy people. Soon the gnomes are trying to pour milk on them so that they too will be happy.
I was surprised to see how much I enjoyed this film and I was even more shocked to see that it was rather catchy. This really comes across as a dark fairy tell where the happy people must venture into a dark area and try to make the bad people see why they should be good. Of course, the selling point here is that milk makes people happy. I thought the animation itself was quite good and I really liked the simple story and the song itself was very good and catchy.
As now, I had a voracious appetite for movies and television and a memory that doesn't quit even after 61 years. As a kid growing up in northern NJ, I had access to the NY/NJ television broadcast market from my youngest years. The first time I saw The Sunshine Makers it made a deep impression on a 3 to 4 year old that I carried through the years. It was broadcast on Newark's Channel 13 and was shown as a "cartoon" along with "Farmer Gray" and the mostly middling fare of which I discerned even then. I had even visited the NJ studio and sat in what is now considered the "peanut gallery" of the old Uncle Fred's Junior Frolics several times. Unfortunately, The Sunshine Makers weren't shown during my presence or I would have had my Aunt and cousin to remember or discuss it with. Now I glad I hadn't seen it in person and hadn't discussed it with them because their opinions, in hindsight, may have dismissed it.
It was like no other cartoon that I saw in those early days of television. While I couldn't express terms like theme, plot, character, etc., I tried to convey to my parents and friends what I saw and the impression it made on me. To this day I had never encountered another person who had seen it until I read the comments on this media. The movie was only 15-16 years old when I saw it! While I won't describe what I saw (mainly because it would be repetitive to Raymond's, cc...'s, & HippieRockChick's description) the good vs evil theme affected me in a primitive way. But the biggest impression was the song/refrain "I'm only happy when I'm sad" in the bass tones came back to me more than a few times during my disaffected 'yute' (as Vinny Gambini might say) or when I had the blues.
Where can I get a copy of it?
It was like no other cartoon that I saw in those early days of television. While I couldn't express terms like theme, plot, character, etc., I tried to convey to my parents and friends what I saw and the impression it made on me. To this day I had never encountered another person who had seen it until I read the comments on this media. The movie was only 15-16 years old when I saw it! While I won't describe what I saw (mainly because it would be repetitive to Raymond's, cc...'s, & HippieRockChick's description) the good vs evil theme affected me in a primitive way. But the biggest impression was the song/refrain "I'm only happy when I'm sad" in the bass tones came back to me more than a few times during my disaffected 'yute' (as Vinny Gambini might say) or when I had the blues.
Where can I get a copy of it?
So they've been able to bottle sunshine (it isn't Borden's milk) and seem intent on forcing everyone to be happy. It would seem more like a drug than a natural feeling. I liked the guys with the top hats and the dark clothes. They were subdued by the happy gnomes. Not a good message.
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- WissenswertesThis cartoon was re-issued as an advertisement film for Borden's in the early 1940s.
- Crazy CreditsThis Entertainment brought to you by Borden's
- Alternative VersionenOriginally released in two-color Technicolor as an entry in Van Beuren's "Rainbow Parade Cartoon" series. Re-issued in the 1940s in Cinecolor as an advertisement for the Borden Company.
- VerbindungenFeatured in Get Crazy (1983)
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