Granite Hotel

Granite Hotel
Directed by Dave Fleischer
Produced by Max Fleischer
Adolph Zukor
Story by George Manuell
Voices by Jack Mercer
Studio Fleischer Studios
Distributed by Paramount Studios
Release date(s)
  • April 26, 1940 (1940-04-26) (U.S.)
Running time 6 minutes
Country United States
Language English

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

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.[4]

Cast

Characters

  • Newsboy
  • Hotel Clerk
  • Charlie Bacardi
  • Monkey's Uncle
  • Bejeweled Guest
  • Barbered Guest
  • Cold Guest
  • Checker Player
  • Bathing Guest
  • Telephone Operator

References

  1. ↑ Graham Webb. The animated film encyclopedia: a complete guide to American shorts, features and sequences 1900-1979, p198. ISBN 078640728X, ISBN 9780786407286. McFarland, 2000.
  2. ↑ Motion picture herald, Volume 139, Issues 1-6. igley Pub. Co. 1940.
  3. ↑ staff. "Fleischer". retrofilmvault. Retrieved March 16, 2012.
  4. ↑ José Luis Sanz. Starring T. rex!: Dinosaur Mythology and Popular Culture, p31. ISBN 0253341531, ISBN 9780253341532. Indiana University Press, 2002.
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