Boy Meets Dog (1938)
1938 · Animation · 9 min · dir. Walter Lantz
- Comedy
- Animation
Synopsis
Bobby is a young child who meets a lost dog and decides to take with him in the house to take care of him. However, his mean dad refuses Bobby to take any pets inside the house. Bobby disappears in his room and when gnomes come to life...
Synopsis from OMDb
Details
- Director
- Walter Lantz
- Writer
- Gene Byrnes
- Released
- 1938-03-10
- Running time
- 9 minutes
Cast & crew
Walter Lantz Director
Billy Bletcher
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · This Is a Story About a Boy, a Dog, and a Sign Language Interpreter... · Christine Hennig · 2004-11-01
Somebody had the bright idea to revive a bunch of old Castle Films cartoons from the 40s and make them accessible for the deaf. So we have a cute, slightly scary cartoon about a boy and a dog and a mean father and the elf justice system, interrupted every few minutes by a perky sign language interpreter, who tries to explain things deaf children might not get. This cartoon is pretty weird to begin with, containing a truly frightening dad and a scary Youth Machine that turns him into a baby, but the sign language interpreter makes it even a weirder experience to watchsome of her facial…
