Synopsis
Behind the scenes in a 1940s animation studio, showing the making of a Chevrolet advertising cartoon.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Released
- 1941-02-21
- Running time
- 9 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Animation: Production
Cast & crew
Jack Davis
Robert Allen- Ross Hertz
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Termite Terrace These Guys Ain't! · Christine Hennig · 2006-02-15
This goofy Jam Handy film features a cartoon animator who meets a Chevrolet mechanical engineer on an airplane that totally lacks seatbelts. The animator manages to talk the engineer into helping make a cartoon in which a bunch of gremlins run a car engine. The engineer helpfully provides a cutaway engine model for the guys in the animation studio to look at. This results in a baffling scene in which the kooky animators brainstorm about the gremlins while the engineer gives boring lectures about how the car engine works, sneaking in sales messages about how great Chevrolet engines are while…
★★ · Out of Toon. · Spuzz · 2003-04-24
The film starts in the biggest airplane cabin I've ever seen.. the seats are HUMOUNGOUS! Must be nice to be an animator. An auto engineer and an animator meet, and they agree to meet up to discuss plans for an automotive cartoon. We then go to the studio, and the engineer whacks us with a 5 minute lesson about how cars work, while the studio animators, here, bizarrely characterized as world class nerds stand in awe. We then cut off (thank god) the car diatribe and we get a little education about how animation works (kind of basic) we see the (poorly!) animated cartoon in it's final product...…
