The Fresh Vegetable Mystery

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The Fresh Vegetable Mystery
Directed by Dave Fleischer
Story byJoe Stultz
Produced by Max Fleischer
Music by Winston Sharples
Sammy Timberg
Production
company
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date
  • September 29, 1939 (1939-09-29)
Running time
6 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Fresh Vegetable Mystery is a 1939 American animated short film directed by Dave Fleischer and produced by Fleischer Studios, as part of the Color Classics film series. [1] [2] It was released on September 29, 1939. [3]

In 2024, the film was selected as part of an animated short film collection to be restored by Seth MacFarlane and Martin Scorsese. The collection was titled Back From the Ink: Restored Animated Shorts and premiered at the TCM Classics Film Festival on April 20, 2024. [4]

Plot

It's late at night in the kitchen, and all the vegetables are asleep when a cloaked figure arrives and kidnaps Mother Carrot and her kids.

References

  1. ↑ ""The Fresh Vegetable Mystery" (1939) |". cartoonresearch.com.
  2. ↑ Klein, Norman M. (July 10, 1993). Seven Minutes: The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon. Verso. ISBN   9781859841501 – via Google Books.
  3. ↑ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 66–67. ISBN   0-8160-3831-7 . Retrieved June 6, 2020.
  4. ↑ D'Alessandro, Anthony (April 17, 2024). "Seth MacFarlane Foundation Teams With Martin Scorsese's Film Foundation To Restore Its First-Ever Collection Of Animated Pics". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved November 3, 2025.
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