Crazy House (1940 film)

Crazy House
Andy Panda series
Produced by Walter Lantz
Voices by Bernice Hansen
Dick Nelson (both uncredited)
Music by Frank Marsales (uncredited)
Animation by Alex Lovy
LaVerne Harding
Les Kline (all uncredited)
Studio Walter Lantz Productions
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date(s) September 23, 1940
Color process Technicolor
Running time 9 mins.
Country United States
Language English
Preceded by 100 Pygmies and Andy Panda
Followed by Knock Knock

Crazy House is the fourth Andy Panda cartoon produced by Walter Lantz and probably directed by Alex Lovy (as speculated by historians such as Michael Barrier) or by Lantz himself (as he claimed himself). The cartoon was released on September 23, 1940.

Plot

Andy and his father seek shelter from a flood in an abandoned building, which in reality is a fun house, filled with such things as hidden practical jokes, a noisy merry-go-round and a dancing floor.

Notes

  • The cartoon is recognized as Lantz's first fully independent film. The use of Technicolor produced some clashes between Lantz and the management at Universal Pictures, whom didn't like that their animation department was offering an apparently better output than their features, so they decided to cut in early 1940 Lantz's weekly advance, forcing the producer to shut down the studio for a while. Crazy House was produced during the closure.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Cooke, Jon, Komorowski, Thad, Shakarian, Pietro, and Tatay, Jack. "1940". The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia


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