All the Cats Join In from the Cartoon Make Mine Music (1944)

[SUA2015Roo]

Their eyes are creamy when they eat ice cream

[SUA2015Roo]

Hey look spearies

[theTVchannel1000]

you can totally see the 1950's coming into action here, even before the 1950's begin

[BeNashed]

I wish we had malt shops! Like bars but for kids!

[Atalanta01]

No one picked up the nerd at the bus stop...ah the memories....

[schreric]

an animated cartoon movie I grew up with and I was born 40 years later to be exact.

[zeldafan1942]

This isn't from 1944, this is from 1946.

[redheadrockchick]

@zeldafan1942 does it matter?

it's still wonderful.

[GTAfan9999]

For music 50 years before me, excellent.

[ChristyFisty]

Loving this.

Almost forgot all about it until the title sprang into my head for no particular reason.

[SizzleSuite]

@ Bombson benny Goodman was he mainstream king of swing but he was put there as the acceptable face of jazz for white american kids. his arranger was fletcher henderson, who along with arranging this tune also arranged his hit version of louis prima's 'sing,sing,sing' If you want to check the real deal you need to hear black jazzers. forget about the obvious ones and try fletcher, boots & his buddies, sidney bechet,stuff smith, buster bailey, tiny parham, clarence williams & fats waller....

[SizzleSuite]

@ Bombson benny Goodman was he mainstream king of swing but he was put there as the acceptable face of jazz for white american kids. his arranger was fletcher henderson, who along with arranging this tune also arranged his hit version of louis prima's 'sing,sing,sing' If you want to check the real deal you need to hear black jazzers. forget about the obvious ones and try fletcher, boots & his buddies, sidney bechet,stuff smith, buster bailey, tiny parham, clarence williams & fats waller

[TacoBot5000]

is this kim possible?

[1fornone]

@ Bombson. Benny Goodman was the "King of swing", you'd like Artie Shaw too. But there are a lot of modern artists playing swing and big band music. Big Bad VooDoo Daddy for instance

[Tyronor]

Crazy video!

[egogo816]

Hey the guy in red stripes used to be hot 30 years before their time...don't kick him out!!!

[TheBombson]

I'm 17 and if anyone with some knowledge in this kind of music sees this comment please writte at least few artists,songs or anything similar to this. Please :)

[noahdorsey]

one of those absolutely flawless pieces of animation. this is what made me love Fred Moore.

[53MaggieB]

LOVE THIS ONE, want to see more of these in today's world!!!

TiggerTune

[sandracfitzge]

I have an original animators drawing from this piece. It is the shot when the teen girl jumps out of her towel and into her clothes (abt 1:53). It is framed on my bedroom wall and constantly reminds me of my mother when she was a bobby soxer...

[Sweetiepiesourgrapes]

How interesting!

[loserbrett]

I laughed so hard at 2:12!

FINISH HER!

[genocidepv]

love it!!! :D:D:D

[VideoGamingGirl]

Oh gods. I remember watching this as a kid...Brings back so many memories. ^_^

[malu7676]

whats the music&

[TwistedGentleman]

Classic 50's americana

[MondoBeno]

This was a bit before the 50's. The part where she comes out of the shower would've been too risque for the Eisenhower era.

[malu7676]

thank you

[UrbanBongo]

Benny Goodman...All The Cats Join In.

[bluedahlia409]

while many things are definitely improved today (such as less racism and people getting called out on their hate crimes, and less sexism) there is ONE thing i think the '40s do better than we do... and that's music.

[powerpc127]

And 2D animation, of course.

[bluedahlia409]

haha, true that

[90sComputerGames]

4:03 , no fatties.

Oh, white folk and their pencil-asses.

[cooldude333]

Those kids look alright!!

Why dosen't the older generation dress like this?

I'm not being insulting or demeaning, I'm just saying.

What happened?

[CutieMikell]

you know us kids we want to try something new every year.

[cooldude333]

Still, those guys had a distict style and flavor. Our generation will cut and paste anything and add it to ourselves.

Is that supposed to make us unique? I think it just makes us copiers.

[ChiTown7721]

Bingo! That's why I mostly listen to older music. Too many people are cutting and pasting and then adding it to themselves. Originality and individuality are so lacking nowadays.

[CutieMikell]

......maybe is not like that...

[mightydagon]

What haapened? First the 50's with its staright jacket conformity which chaffed quite a few people. This led to the 60's which gave us all the heavy sex and sleazy women and people being different sometimes for the mere sake of it. This of course got put onto the big screen and television which got put into our heads and, well, you know the rest. Peeps dont take the time to enjoy what they have and are quick to toss it away if favor of something new.

[GINARRY4LIFE]

I'm aspiring to be a baker and i would LOVE to make a cake based on this. With the juke box and a few of the couple and then the girl's little sister pouting in the corner

[bertwilkinson]

oh i remember this!

[pynte]

I love it

[bernardberkhout]

The music was recorded by the Goodman band on the 6th of december 1944. Without the 'singing' by the way.

[systemoperator]

This is from 1946!

[LuciusTheFair]

Ahh the good ol' days when the only enemies we faced were Commies and Fascists.

[KriztofferSwank]

I've only watched Make Mine Music once, but this is the only segment that really amazed me. Really good short. Hip, fun, well-animated, visually appealing. Excellent stuff.

[lynnkitt]

mann, them cool cats really know how to live in the 50s...what i'd give to be a teen in that era and dance in malt shops.

[MommaDee2006]

I've thought that so many times too :) After seeing the 50s portrayed like this and the movie Grease (one of my favs!) along with others like La Bamba and so forth, I would love to go back to those days, when it seemed like things were much more simple and clean cut.

[cooldude333]

Amen, no heavy sex, no sleazy women, at least not shoved in your face all the time, domestic tranquility,

It was good times in America.

[Loveydvy99]

Ehhh, personally I'm glad we live in an age where hate crimes receive the punishment they deserve. Things were necessarily better back then, we were just better at keeping it under the rug.

[cooldude333]

That's true, racism was a big thing back then.

I'm glad we are more diverse in race and culture today.

You got to take the good with the bad I guess.

[hollywoodartchick]

Hard to tell what the populace at large was doing, but the media standards were less shock-oriented. This is pure quality - very strong craftsmanship, not the kind of sausage that has to be ground in today's work environment that just wants the cheapest, most outrageous filler possible. I would say it reflects a time when craftsmen & commitment to a trade were valued as equals with beancounters instead of disposable inferiors.

[Marbles471]

hollywoodartchick:

"I would say it reflects a time when craftsmen & commitment to a trade were valued as equals with beancounters instead of disposable inferiors"

I wouldn't say that. I think it's more that back then, the beancounters simply didn't KNOW yet that the public would settle for less. Today, they do know.

Just imagine--back then, Terrytoons cartoons were considered low budget cheap stuff! But today, it's usually considered too expensive to make flowing animation, period.

[hollywoodartchick]

Come to think of it, you are 100% right. If they could get away with holding a raisin box up to the camera for 21 minutes, none of us would have jobs. Every so often, someone makes something wildly popular that does require more labor, and magically, the budget is found for that. But then the money people rush back in, and the cycle starts over again. I like Terrytoons! I also like those 1930s cartoons that are fully animated - really rich stuff.

[NihilistSlacker]

@cooldude333 Yeah, threats of a nuclear war, greasers beating the living crap out of 'dorks', segregation, communist expansionism threatening America, and the live and well Klu Klux Klan. Good times. Yessiree.

Don't judge an era by its sitcoms.

[cooldude333]

@NihilistSlacker OK, so every time has its difficulties, but compare that to now and see a HUGE difference?

[NihilistSlacker]

@cooldude333 Personally, I'd rather live in a world with personal computers and without the Soviet Union but to each their own.

I've always preferred the music and movies of the 50's compared to post 9/11 movies and music but I wouldn't want to go through the horrors of the decade just for that.

[cooldude333]

@NihilistSlacker I can see your point, but if you do look past the horrors, there is a bit of magic to that decade huh?

[jyun1226]

braless =D

[langstropicalfish]

Great Video!!!

[tossywozzy]

Another great cartoon inspired by the great Mary Blair :D

[rayharryhausen6]

So THIS is what life was like in the 40s and 50s! Golly!

[PunkyBear36]

Thats Fred Moore, alright.

[FilmTraum]

Love this cartoon!Fantastic!

[jjcresswell]

However It would have been more classy if it was about zoot suit cats instead of booby sox cats.

You Dig?

[gagbonkers2]

You got a point there....The song completely states "All the cats Join in"

[MondoBeno]

I can just imagine what her parents will do to her when they find out she's been dancing around with boys without her mom's permission. Her dad will probably take her home, spank her, throw her in a girl's reformatory, etc.

[2xlife]

i love this animation

idk y but its soooo good. (obviously)

[mvidmaster]

That is a remake of a popular swing song, the original version by Benny Goodman had no vocals or car noises.

[JosephNScott]

This isn't a remake -- the instrumental backing track heard from 00:29 on was recorded by Goodman on June 12, 1944, and it wasn't released without the overdubbed vocals and sound effects on a record until the '50s. The music of the song was written by Eddie Sauter, who wrote some of Goodman's best instrumentals. The song was popular in '46 when the movie was released, and in '46 Goodman made a different recording of it, with completely different personnel except for himself, for release on 78.

[Pisark]

I don't know what made me think about this cartoon today, but I'm so glad I found it! Except I remember there being a more modern song, maybe a remake of a popular swing song (I used to watch this on a 1980s Disney video!) Does anyone know about this version I'm thinking of?

[ryaners]

yea! i totally know what you mean.

i've seen this with the song "At the Hop" !

[am9224]

Was it called DTV?

[DeltaKilo3]

He he, a malt shop! Yeah, this is from 1944!

[salaciouslaundry]

this one's so cute!!

[gagbonkers]

can someone post on the other song benny goodman did in this?

[JillHill7]

This is the BEST number out of all of them in Make Mine Music! ^_^

[Herbert7J]

What a treasure. The era of the 1940s in animation. This was never shown on television when I was a child! Thanks for showing it here.

[gagbonkers]

the first time i saw this was on disney channel i was lucky to catch this on the tv before disney turned into junk

[drmartinhair]

you said it!

[gagbonkers]

i know . Who the !@#$ came up with jetix and make it air junk like pucca, and some other shit? they should get rid of that and air classic disney cartoons like these and bring back old tv shows like bonkers, darkwing duck, chip and dale rescure rangers, tailspin, ducktales, old disney cartoons from the 30's, old disney movies like song of the south, AND maybe air stuff like tiny toons , pinky and the brain, freakazoid, anaimacas, and other good stuff.

[medeaves]

Thank you so much for posting this. I remember watching this on a 'Disney Time' easter special as a child and have always been desperate to see it again. It is just so cool!

Thank you again x

[fromthesidelines]

The music was recorded in 1944, but the film wasn't released until late 1946. It took two years for the Disney studio to finish all the "elements" in the entrie film. Friz Freleng used a similar gag when the Wolf dressed like "Joe College of the Roaring Twenties" to crash the Pigs' jazz joint in "The Three Little Bops" (1957).

[MondoBeno]

I guess in 1945 they weren't as obsessive about the morals as they were int he 1950's. Something tells me that 10 years later, this film short would have been restricted.

The 1950's were a more conservative (and dull) era.

[sweetaliena]

Do you have the 'Fascinating Rythm' clip?

[gagbonkers]

Jazz cartoons were always great anyone got Kit kat kollage? that's a warner bros. cartoon with swing jazz.

[rufus43110]

THAT WAS THE BEST!

[JonasClark]

Wow... just..wow. Talk about your classic, cool animation. That rocks as much now as it did the day I first saw it. Gotta love the cameo from the 20s Collegiate type with the ukelele - he's outta style by about two decades! Poor guy. Thanks for posting this!

[MondoBeno]

This cartoon is great even by today's standards.

I'm just wonderinf, how did htis cartoon get passed the Production Code censors in 1944? You'd think the shower scene (and about every female in the cartoon) would have pissed off all the moralists on the panel.

[robcat2075]

Yes it was passed and approved and widely released. Fully clothed white women and nudity in silhouette were all possible back then. Even if they were dancing.

The Hays office wasn't so much moralists as it was an arm of the movie industry determined not to give the real moralists anything to complain about.

[OorvakanSar]

Hey, hey I like a little junk in the trunk, ASSHOLES!!!!

[JillHill7]

I know! i was kinda mad at that but i laughed. cuz girls with junk in trunk have to have STRONG-ASS men who can swing dance well and be able to lift them with grace and style. these guys in the cartoon are STICK figures and they complement their Stick figure ladies.

[gagbonkers]

sadding that u don't find jazz like this anymore