See old Jam Handy Cartoons online

[Waldlicht]

http://ftp.archive.org/html/bytitle.html

Here you can find some old animated commercials like "A Ride for Cinderella" (1937) or "Peg-Leg Pedro" (1938).

[laugh4me]

TTTP regulars will want to check out In My Merry Oldsmobile (1932) which was made by Fleischer Studios (and was sponsored by Oldsmobile).

There's also a Chevrolet-sponsered one called Drawing Account (1941) which shows a cartoon being made behind the scenes. Does anyone know which studio this is or who any of the people are in it? The "animation director" is named Robert Allen - is he the same one who did some work at MGM - e.g. Captain's Pup, The (1938),
Cleaning House (1938), Little Cesario (1941), Chips Off the Old Block (1942) ? There's an animator credited named "Ross Hertz".

[BobChief]

...but I recognize some of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica and Coronet stuff from school...:eek:

There's a Jam Handy film there made for Chevrolet called "Hired!" Didn't Mystery Science Theater 3000 show that once?

[Joe Tully]

Originally posted by BobChief
...but I recognize some of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica and Coronet stuff from school...:eek:

There's a Jam Handy film there made for Chevrolet called "Hired!" Didn't Mystery Science Theater 3000 show that once?

I think you're right, I think it was shown in 2 parts and included the man with the hankerchief on his head. "Flying elves are back!"

[Sogturtle]

Originally posted by laugh4me
TTTP regulars will want to check out In My Merry Oldsmobile (1932) which was made by Fleischer Studios (and was sponsored by Oldsmobile).

There's also a Chevrolet-sponsered one called Drawing Account (1941) which shows a cartoon being made behind the scenes. Does anyone know which studio this is or who any of the people are in it? The "animation director" is named Robert Allen - is he the same one who did some work at MGM - e.g. Captain's Pup, The (1938),
Cleaning House (1938), Little Cesario (1941), Chips Off the Old Block (1942) ? There's an animator credited named "Ross Hertz".


WHAT!!! NO "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" ("directed by Max Fleischer" while at Jam Handy)??? For shame;);)

"In My Merry Oldsmobile" (co-directed by Shamus Culhane) was historically significant as the advertising toon that actually precipated near-riots in theaters across the country. According to Culhane audiences were so upset at having this animated ad surreptiously rammed down their collective gullets (as a Fleischer cartoon) that it caused suspension of movie theater ads for years. He did not like to recall his roll in it. But a nice little Fleischer cartoon just the same.

As for "Drawing Account" I will have to check on it. Robert "Bob" Allen stayed at MGM a little while after Hugh Harman quit, but then joined him later at Hugh Harman Productions. This was the only directing/animating/storyboarding Bob Allen that I have ever known of though. Sooooo if the film was really made in 1941 then there would be several possibilities...

1. It could be a contract cartoon made at MGM (somehow with Jam Handy)
2. Could have been made by Allen nights and weekends "moonlighting" from MGM (extremely unlikely).
3. Might have been made immediately as Allen exited Metro (the date of his leaving is up in the air, though likely was in '41 or possibly in '42).

Realistically though the only one possible would be #3, since Jam Handy was located in Detroit (a heck of a long way for moonlighting :)). When Harman & Ising had returned to MGM in 1938, Hugh couldn't forgive Bob Allen for defecting in 1937. Soooooo it wasn't till after they both left Metro that they became somewhat necessary to each other. This film would appear to offer the explanation for where Allen had wandered off to in the interim...Detroit!!. Annnnnd he was following his former H&I and MGM colleagues Jim Tyer, Arnold Gillespie (plus Jim Davis) in such a move.