Granite Hotel

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Granite Hotel
Directed by Dave Fleischer
Story byGeorge Manuell
Produced by Max Fleischer
Adolph Zukor
Starring Jack Mercer
Music by Sammy Timberg
Production
company
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date
  • April 26, 1940 (1940-04-26)(U.S.)
Running time
6 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Granite Hotel is a 1940 American animated short film directed by Dave Fleischer. [1] Released in April of that year, it was the fourth in the Stone Age Cartoons series. [2] [3] The film is now in public domain. [4]

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Plot summary

Set in a modern stone-age time, the viewer is presented to a gallery of characters like a telephone operator, the ventriloquist "Edgar Burgundy" and his doll "Charlie Bacardi" (a play on Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy) and a barber. A guest in need of a chess player calls the fire department who arrives riding a sauropod. [5]

Cast

Characters

References

  1. ↑ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. p. 139. ISBN   0-8160-3831-7.
  2. ↑ Graham Webb. The animated film encyclopedia: a complete guide to American shorts, features and sequences 1900-1979, p198. ISBN   078640728X, ISBN   9780786407286. McFarland, 2000.
  3. ↑ Motion picture herald, Volume 139, Issues 1-6. Quigley Pub. Co. 1940.
  4. ↑ staff. "Fleischer". retrofilmvault. Archived from the original on December 8, 2011. Retrieved March 16, 2012.
  5. ↑ José Luis Sanz. Starring T. rex!: Dinosaur Mythology and Popular Culture, p31. ISBN   0253341531, ISBN   9780253341532. Indiana University Press, 2002.


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