The Fresh Vegetable Mystery

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The Fresh Vegetable Mystery
Directed byDirection:
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
Running time
6 minutes
LanguageEnglish

The Fresh Vegetable Mystery is a 1939 Color Classics cartoon. [1] [2] It was released on September 29, 1939. [3]

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.

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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 6 June 2020.