Granite Hotel

Granite Hotel is a 1940 American animated short film directed by Dave Fleischer.[1] Released in April of that year, it was the fourth in the Stone Age Cartoons series.[2][3] The film is now in public domain.[4]

Granite Hotel
Directed byDave Fleischer
Produced byMax Fleischer
Adolph Zukor
Story byGeorge Manuell
StarringJack Mercer
Music bySammy Timberg
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Studios
Release date
  • April 26, 1940 (1940-04-26) (U.S.)
Running time
6 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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.[5]

Cast

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

References
  1. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. p. 139. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7.
  2. Graham Webb. The animated film encyclopedia: a complete guide to American shorts, features and sequences 1900-1979, p198. ISBN 078640728X, ISBN 9780786407286. McFarland, 2000.
  3. Motion picture herald, Volume 139, Issues 1-6. Quigley Pub. Co. 1940.
  4. staff. "Fleischer". retrofilmvault. Archived from the original on December 8, 2011. Retrieved March 16, 2012.
  5. José Luis Sanz. Starring T. rex!: Dinosaur Mythology and Popular Culture, p31. ISBN 0253341531, ISBN 9780253341532. Indiana University Press, 2002.


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