Columbia’s Musical “Gems”: 1936
During the 1935-36 film season, Columbia’s cartoons began drawing a number of tunes from the library of Fox musicals.
During the 1935-36 film season, Columbia’s cartoons began drawing a number of tunes from the library of Fox musicals.
One can only wonder what exhibitors thought of the Columbia cartoons, which continued to improve artistically as the years went by.
Continuing with a run of 1935 titles featuring original song compositions.
More from the same season as last time, now with new pieces composed exclusively for use within the cartoons.
The Mintz studio began closely paralleling the efforts of Walt Disney, embellishing the motion of both Scrappy and Krazy Kat.
The cartoon department didn’t have any stellar successes, but were producing a consistent line of cartoons that pleased exhibitors and audiences alike.
This week we’ll take a brief musical detour into work that Mintz was doing on the side of his Columbia contract.
Joe De Nat’s music is peppy, without being all that distinctive. But his use of popular tunes continues.
Love him or hate him: Charles Mintz put out a great deal of product, most of which seems to have satisfied movie patrons of the time.
After MGM closed their home grown animation department, they chose Gene Deitch, and later Chuck Jones, to keep Tom & Jerry alive on the big screen.