{"id":68490,"date":"2021-11-23T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/?p=68490"},"modified":"2021-11-23T09:30:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T17:30:06","slug":"max-and-dave-screen-songs-1932-more-of-your-favorite-radio-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/index.php\/max-and-dave-screen-songs-1932-more-of-your-favorite-radio-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Max and Dave “Screen Songs” 1932: More of Your Favorite Radio Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"As the 1931-32 season ended, the Fleischer Screen Songs<\/em> continued on their merry way. They were starting to feature more live action sequences with favorite radio stars and Broadway personalities, some of them making their film debuts. I hope the featured celebrities drew well when they appeared in Publix theaters the week following each cartoon show, so that the public could see them in the flesh.<\/p>\n

However, during the season, some of the exhibitors started to have complaint concerning the subject matter of the cartoons. They notes that cartoons were a draw for the kiddies, and wondered if some of the gags were a bit too adult for such target audience. This was at a time when the \u201cguardians of the public morals\u201d were beginning to raise their voices against the movie industry. The industry had itself passed, but was not honoring, a code of conduct, which wouldn\u2019t be enforced until 1934 (hence, pictures from thie 1930-35 period are often referred to as \u201cpre-code\u201d). And this attitude affected cartoons as much as it did features. <\/p>\n

I Ain\u2019t Got Nobody<\/strong> (6\/17\/32) – Featuring the Mills Brothers – Terry, Herbert, Donald and John all making their screen debut. The picture has a screen credit very similar to the labels of theor Bunswick records, highlighting that no musical instruments are used excepting one guitar. A lion king turns on his television set (TV was still experimental in 1932), and tunes in music and dancing from Jewish, Chinese, Spanish, and American Indian dancers, until he finally tunes in the Mills Brothers. The lion also possesses magical powers, which he demonstrates on a dog, turning him into various breeds, including hot dogs. He then turns to the audience, makes some magical gestures, and commands us to sing when we see the Mills Brothers and the bouncing ball. After a couple of choruses of the tite song, the lion and his TV are chased by his revivified tiger rug, as the Brothers perform their record hit, \u201cTiger Rag\u201d, soon to be used in their appearance in Paramount\u2019s The Big Broadcast of 1932<\/em>. The lion\u2019s magic must have been too powerful, as nobody can \u201chold that tiger\u201d. <\/p>\n