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Alpine Antics

  • 1936
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5.9/10
378
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Alpine Antics (1936)
AnimationComedyFamilyShortSport

Prolog: various animals enjoy winter sports. Beans sees a notice of a ski race, and decides to enter. But so does a bad guy (who looks more than a little like Disney's Pete). The bad guy sab... Read allProlog: various animals enjoy winter sports. Beans sees a notice of a ski race, and decides to enter. But so does a bad guy (who looks more than a little like Disney's Pete). The bad guy sabotages the other contestants in various ways, takes short cuts, etc. But Beans manages to ... Read allProlog: various animals enjoy winter sports. Beans sees a notice of a ski race, and decides to enter. But so does a bad guy (who looks more than a little like Disney's Pete). The bad guy sabotages the other contestants in various ways, takes short cuts, etc. But Beans manages to tie up the bad guy in his own trip line. A duck riding a dachshund knocks the bad guy out ... Read all

  • Director
    • Jack King
  • Writer
    • Melvin Millar
  • Stars
    • Billy Bletcher
    • Tommy Bond
    • Jack Carr
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.9/10
    378
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    • Director
      • Jack King
    • Writer
      • Melvin Millar
    • Stars
      • Billy Bletcher
      • Tommy Bond
      • Jack Carr
    • 7User reviews
    • 1Critic review
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Billy Bletcher
    Billy Bletcher
    • Bully
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    Tommy Bond
    Tommy Bond
    • Beans
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    Jack Carr
    • Tortoise Race Starter
    • (uncredited)
    Bernice Hansen
    • Little Kitty
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Jack King
    • Writer
      • Melvin Millar
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    6utgard14

    "Oh boy! Watch me win that race!"

    Black & white Beans the Cat short featuring an early appearance from Porky Pig. Beans wants to join a skiing contest but a bully breaks his skis. So he fashions some more from the rails of his sled and joins the race, where he competes against the bully and several other animal characters, the only noteworthy one being Porky on a rocking horse (he doesn't speak). The animation is very nice, particularly the action. Good voice work and music. It's an enjoyable cartoon for what it is, made in the years when Warner Bros. was still sort of mimicking Disney. It's not that funny; more cute than anything else. It's worth a look if you're an animation buff and are a fan of the kinds of cartoons that were made in the 1930s.
    6TheLittleSongbird

    Decent if unexceptional

    Merrie Melodies/Looney Tunes went on to much better things since, but 'Alpine Antics' is a decent if unexceptional early effort.

    It does have some great animation and some exciting race scenes with some inventive parts. The music is playful and dynamic, always fitting with the action and never distracting if not quite action-enhancing.

    There is some genuine cuteness and some good tension with the villain. The voice work is very good, with Billy Bletcher clearly relishing the role of the villain.

    'Alpine Antics' is lacking somewhat in laughs, and is only mildly amusing at best. The story is thin and routine, and of the characters only the villain and Porky stand out. Beans is a serviceable enough lead but is not particularly funny.

    In summary, decent cartoon with a lot of good things but there has been better since as well as before actually. 6/10 Bethany Cox
    Michael_Elliott

    Winter Games

    Alpine Antics (1936)

    *** (out of 4)

    There a skiing competition and Beans plans to enter so that he can win the grand prize. All is going well until a bully decides to try and cheat to get the victory.

    ALPINE ANTICS is another charming film from the Leon Schlesinger Studios. While there really weren't any huge laughs here, the film itself was pleasant enough to make it worth watching for fans of animated pictures from this era. I thought the highlight of the picture was a scene early on when one of the characters decides to go swimming in the icy water. The majority of the film has plenty of nice action and there's a very good pace to it that keeps it moving quite well. There's certainly nothing ground-breaking here but it's a fun short.
    6planktonrules

    A bit Disney-like at times.

    "Alpine Antics" is a cartoon featuring a mostly forgotten character, Beans. Beans, I think is supposed to be a cat and here he and his nearly identical looking girlfriend are preparing for a ski race. All this occurs well into the film, as the first few minutes are a bunch of unrelated sight gags involving ice skating.

    So much of this cartoon appears to be a knockoff of Disney. The character in the opening bit looks exactly like Disney's Clarabelle and the villain is very strongly inspired by Pete from "Steamboat Willie". But the big difference is that this cartoon, quality-wise, is far inferior to a Disney film of the day. Overall, inoffensive and easy to forget.
    7lee_eisenberg

    ice skater's daughter

    One of the early Looney Tunes cartoons - at this time, Porky Pig was their major star and Mel Blanc wasn't yet providing the voices - features a skiing race in which a bully does everything possible to sabotage everyone else's chances. But he didn't figure on Beans.

    I noticed that the song played at the beginning ("She Was an Ice Skater's Daughter") had the same tune as the theme song in their later cartoon "She Was an Acrobat's Daughter". I wonder whether or not the tune influenced that song "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini".

    Oh well. Whatever the case, this is an OK cartoon. Warner Bros. cartoons hadn't yet taken the completely zany path that characterized them throughout the '40s and '50s (I think that they set about that path once the animators created Daffy Duck). Worth seeing, if only once.

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    • Trivia
      Most of the short's characters wear white gloves, similar to those sported by Mickey Mouse over at rival studio Disney.
    • Alternate versions
      This cartoon was colorized in 1995, with a computer adding color to a new print of the original black and white cartoon. This preserved the quality of the original animation.
    • Connections
      Featured in Toon in with Me: Oh Canada? (2021)
    • Soundtracks
      She Was an Acrobat's Daughter
      (uncredited)

      Music by Harry Ruby

      Lyrics by Bert Kalmar

      Sung at the beginning as "She Was Only an Ice Skater's Daughter"

      Also played at the end of the race

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    • Release date
      • March 9, 1936 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Production company
      • Leon Schlesinger Studios
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    • Runtime
      • 7m
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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