Trying To Get A Good Winter's Sleep
Barney Bear is trying to settle in for winter's hibernation, but a squirrel keeps waking him up in Rudolf Ising's last credited cartoon release for MGM.
Ising had been one of Walt Disney's original crew in Kansas City. He had gone with Disney to Hollywood, but left when Disney lost the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. With Hugh Harman and Friz Freleng, he devised a better way of animating characters talking, which led them to a contract with Leon Schlesinger to do Merrie Melodies. After Schlesinger had cut them out, their studio contracted with MGM for color cartoons, but eventually, Fred Quimby became their producer and their careers turned to industrial cartoons.
There were quite a few cartoons in this period about someone trying to sleep, only to be thwarted. This is an amusing one.
Ising had been one of Walt Disney's original crew in Kansas City. He had gone with Disney to Hollywood, but left when Disney lost the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. With Hugh Harman and Friz Freleng, he devised a better way of animating characters talking, which led them to a contract with Leon Schlesinger to do Merrie Melodies. After Schlesinger had cut them out, their studio contracted with MGM for color cartoons, but eventually, Fred Quimby became their producer and their careers turned to industrial cartoons.
There were quite a few cartoons in this period about someone trying to sleep, only to be thwarted. This is an amusing one.
- boblipton
- Sep 6, 2019