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Farm Frolics | |
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Directed by | Robert Clampett |
Story by | Warren Foster [ citation needed ] |
Produced by | Leon Schlesinger |
Music by | Carl W. Stalling |
Animation by | John Carey I. Ellis |
Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | Leon Schlesinger Studios |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 8:02 (original print) 7:21 (Blue Ribbon reissue) |
Language | English |
Farm Frolics is a 1941 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon supervised by Bob Clampett. [1] It was released on May 10, 1941. [2]
The cartoon starts with the arm of an animator drawing a farm scene which then colors itself, and the camera zooms in as a narrator begins:
The cartoon fell into the public domain in 1970 in the United States when United Artists, the copyright owners to the Associated Artists Productions package, failed to renew the copyright in time. As such, unrestored copies can be seen on various public domain VHS and DVD sets. The public domain short was remastered on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 5 , Disc 3.
On October 3, 2022, a YouTube user named Jerico Dvorak uploaded the original titles and opening and closing bullet-style sequences, as well as the scene with the grasshopper excised from the Blue Ribbon re-release. The video was made private on YouTube a few hours later. It was reuploaded one day later with approval from the Library of Congress. [4] A YouTube user named Clem uploaded the original nitrate print a few days later. [5]
The Film Daily called the cartoon "good", saying, "There is no story to this Merrie Melodies but the comments of the animals as the audience is taken around the farm are highly amusing." [6]
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