The Captain and the Kids(film series)
Appearance
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The Captain and the Kids | |
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Directed by | William Hanna Robert Allen Friz Freleng Burt Gillett |
Produced by | Fred Quimby |
Starring | Billy Bletcher Martha Wentworth Shirley Reid Jeanne Dunne Mel Blanc |
Music by | Scott Bradley |
Color process | Black-and-white Technicolor(The Captain's ChristmasandPetunia Natural Park) |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release date | February 19, 1938 – February 11, 1939 |
Running time | 7–9 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
In 1938, the comic stripThe Captain and the Kids(Rudolph Dirks' parallel version of his own stripThe Katzenjammer Kids) was adapted byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer,becoming the studio's first self-produced series of theatrical cartoon short subjects, directed byWilliam Hanna,Bob Allen, andFriz Freleng.The short-lived series was unsuccessful, ending after one year and a total of 15 cartoons.[1]Following that cancellation, Freleng returned toWarner Bros.,where he had earlier been an animation director. The Captain was voiced byBilly Bletcher,Mama was voiced byMartha Wentworth,the kids were voiced by Shirley Reid and Jeanne Dunne,[2]and John Silver was voiced byMel Blanc.[3]
Titles
[edit]# | Title | Directed by | Release date |
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1 | Cleaning House[4] | Robert Allen | February 19, 1938 |
2 | Blue Monday | William Hanna | April 2, 1938 |
3 | Poultry Pirates | Friz Freleng | April 16, 1938 |
4 | The Captain's Pup | Robert Allen | April 30, 1938 |
5 | A Day at the Beach | Friz Freleng | June 25, 1938 |
6 | What a Lion! | William Hanna | July 16, 1938 |
7 | The Pygmy Hunt | Friz Freleng | August 6, 1938 |
8 | Old Smokey | William Hanna | September 3, 1938 |
9 | Buried Treasure | Robert Allen | September 17, 1938 |
10 | The Winning Ticket | Burt Gillett | October 1, 1938 |
11 | The Honduras Hurricane | Friz Freleng | October 15, 1938 |
12 | The Captain's Christmas[a][5] | December 17, 1938 | |
13 | Petunia Natural Park[a] | January 14, 1939 | |
14 | Seal Skinners | January 28, 1939 | |
15 | Mama's New Hat | February 11, 1939 |
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^Lenburg, Jeff (1999).The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons.Checkmark Books. pp. 62–63.ISBN0-8160-3831-7.Retrieved6 June2020.
- ^Yowp (2021-10-09)."Tralfaz: MGM Odds and Ends, Part 1".Tralfaz.Archivedfrom the original on 2021-11-01.Retrieved2021-11-01.
- ^"Charles Thorson's" Captain and The Kids "model sheets".Cartoon Brew.2012-06-20.Archivedfrom the original on 2017-10-20.Retrieved2017-09-30.
- ^"Cleaning House".19 February 1938.Archivedfrom the original on 8 February 2017.Retrieved1 July2018– via www.imdb.com.
- ^Crump, William D. (2019).Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film.McFarland & Co. p. 40.ISBN9781476672939.
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- Film series introduced in 1938
- 1930s American animated films
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- American black-and-white films
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- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animated short films
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio film series
- The Katzenjammer Kids
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