RARE 16mm Fleischer TALKARTOON on eBay! "SWING YOU SINNERS!"

[Pietro]

If your willing to spend big bucks on this extremely rare classic,
here's the link:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1462372405

-Pietro

[Sogturtle]

Ahhhh Pietro~

A rare print from the unique toon and artwork collection of Collin "Ricekrispies". I've bought rare and fine things from him before (something of a shameless plug for him). And he doesn't brag about it but he was one of the toon contributors to the "Cultoons" tapes of several years back (he has stuff no-one else does). NOW iffffff he just hadn't outbid on those mega-rare Iwerks toons the other day... Course I got him back the next day by winning some others he wanted!!! (An expensive case of "tit for tat"). Hmmmm wonder if he'll even answer little ol' me anymore now?? :)

[J Lee]

"Swing You Sinners" is a pretty historic cartoon in terms of the story of the Fleischer Studio and the animators who got their start on that cartoon and later became famous in the industry both there and on the West Coast.

The cartoon was started by Sid Marcus and George Stallings, both of whom left the studio in the middle of production. It was finished under the dirction of Grim Natwick and Ted Sears by animators Shamus Culhane, Seymour Kneitel, Willard Bowsky, Al Eugster, George Cannata and William Henning, all of whom were moved up from the in-betweening department by Dave Fleischer. Ten animators for a six minute cartoon has to be some kind of record, not even counting who the 10 were and what their overall impact would be over the next 25 years.

[Sogturtle]

Yep John (and Shamus)~

Very good points!! "Swing You Sinners" twas indeed historic for exactly those reasons. One point... around the same time D*sn*y was employing upwards of EIGHT animators on his cartoons. At Walt's it was a way of keeping the animators busy. This was finally found to be less efficient than separate or semi-separate units there.