Land of the Midnight Fun

Land of the Midnight Fun
Merrie Melodies series
Directed by Supervision:
Tex Avery (credited as "Fred Avery")
Produced by Leon Schlesinger
Assisted by:
Henry Binder (uncredited)
Story by Melvin Millar
Narrated by Robert C. Bruce (uncredited)
Voices by Mel Blanc
Sara Berner
Tex Avery
Music by Musical direction:
Carl Stalling (credited as "Carl W. Stalling")
Orchestration:
Milt Franklyn (uncredited)
Animation by Character animation:
Charles and Robert McKimson (listed and credited as "Charles McKimson" and listed as "Robert McKimson" and uncredited)
Virgil Ross (uncredited)
Effects animation:
A.C. Gamer (uncredited)
Distributed by Warner Bros.
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date(s) September 23, 1939
Color process In:
Technicolor
Language English

Land of the Midnight Fun is a 1939 Merrie Melodies cartoon supervised by Tex Avery (credited as "Fred Avery").

Plot

A cruise to Nome, Alaska, starts with various cruise ship jokes: the ship pulls out of the harbor like a car, raising anchor also raises the front of the boat, the ship follows the coast by curving around it. On arrival, we see some local scenes: A penguin eats two fish, then is eaten by the third; the dogs of a dog sled stop (behind an iceberg) at a telephone pole; a timber wolf goes around shouting "Timber!" (even the wolf admits, "Gee, this is silly!"); two Eskimos rub noses: in preparation, the woman applies lipstick to her nose. Finally, an Eskimo nightclub (after all, the nights are six months long) features a rotoscoped ice skater. The ship leaves, and gets caught in the fog near New York City; when the fog clears, we see the ship is perched atop the World's Fair Trylon.

Availability

Notes

  • This was the first Warner Bros. cartoon to feature the 1939–40 red, white, and blue target rings with a sky cloud background circle (similar to the cloud background in the modern Warner Bros. Pictures logo) in the Merrie Melodies opening titles.


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