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A night in a small library. The characters of famous books come to life, referring to movie versions of these books.
CinemaSerf
Mar 17, 2024 · via TMDB
A rather annoying cuckoo clock summons us all to the town crier who rather monotonically introduces us to figures from fictional history. Amongst them are "Fu Manchu", "Frankenstein" and "Dr. Jekyll" - but they are not so menacing after all as they indulge in something akin to the dance of the "Sugar Plum Fairy". That's the start of our ensuing jolly and quite innovative trawl through a library of books that gives the animators an excuse to use the titles as some creative inspiration for the drawings and for the musicians to imaginatively score along to, too. I especially liked "Whistler's Mother", "Bulldog Drummin" and that has to be Charles Laughton on the front of "Mutiny on the Bounty"... Do we get to castles? Well not really - but that doesn't seem to matter as the snake charmers and even Henry VIII get in on the act. Who knew little boy actually blew!!?
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Mel Blanc
Town Crier / Praying Baby / Rip Van Winkle / Emily Host / Alladin (voice) (uncredited)
Delos Jewkes
Old King Cole (voice) (uncredited)
Tedd Pierce
W. C. Fields (voice) (uncredited)
Frank Tashlin
Director
Leon Schlesinger
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