This late Puppetoon starts out with Woody Herman playing his clarinet. He then stops, to tell the audience how his grandfather, a noted woodsman and axe-wielder, came to make the instrument which, had it been a violin, would have been a Stradivarius.
Music and myth, filled with cartoonish good humor and amazingly rendered marquettes to be turned into stop-motion wonders. Those are the hallmarks of George Pal's Puppetoons -- earlier "Madcap Models" -- and there was no shortage of fine musicians eager to work with him.
This may have been the last of the Puppetoons released. There's another that shows up in the same year but follows this one in the IMDb listing. There's no information except the title, the year, and Pal directing.
If ithis was the last, it was a good one to go out on. Although I wish he had done more.
