I Wanna Be a Sailor (1937)

[freethoughtmusic]

Kids' a chip off the old block. Know a few real-life guys just like him. All his Mothers' care and he still has the wanderlust in him. :D

[avalanchesuperstar]

@ProxyStarkillaYTA but these werent made for 5 year olds. They showed these before feature films. These were meant for adults too.

[Sparkels98]

does any1 remember a old cartoon bee i wanna say it was either warner bros or disney it was skinny and had big eyes.......

[hotplaye999]

i hate crackers too!

[yohannbiimu]

A great animation director wasn't made overnight. Tex Avery had to go through stuff like this before he could arrive at comic gold.

[ProxyStarkillaYTA]

The cartoons for 5 year-olds in 1937 had as much alcoholism as 2011's adult sitcoms... Damn, I was born in the wrong time.

[uknownada]

@ProxyStarkillaYTA Back then there wasn't very much over-reaction and controversy. Today, if they show as much as a nose bleed, it needs to be censored.

[ehill1536]

Love these cartoons. This never seems to get old.

[maxkuznetsov123456]

Today i am a man!!!

[ClassicTVMan1981X]

Released: September 25, 1937

Re-released: April 30, 1949

Supervision: Fred (Tex) Avery

Animation: Charles Jones, Virgil Ross

Musical Direction: Carl W. Stalling

[godkingzulu]

@ClassicTVMan1981X

and an uncredited, pre [I]Tom and Jerry[/I] Irven Spence, too!!

[khaled0509354055]

loooooool help help hlp help hhhh

good days

[CaptainGoofysstash]

"But he NEVER DID, the NEEDLEBRAIN!!"

ROTFL! I thought this was hysterical as a child. :D

[amyroch2006]

Seriously cant believe i've found these videos again!

I'm 17 and i used to watch these when i was younger.

So happy i've found them! :)

[ehill1536]

The best cartoons ever made. Maybe Im still young at heart.

[Emubirdproductions1]

@ 6:29

Mother Toucan: Now you don't want to be a sailor, do you?

Peter The Toucan: YEAH!

Mother Toucan: WHAT!

Mother Toucan: Now what would you do with a child like that.

[WTFGUY956]

Childhood memories...

[Ryansings]

What great memories watching this old cartoon and the old Felix the cat cartoon not to mention The Lady In The Shoe and Loral and Hardy with my daughter we would watch them all the time. If only I could turn back time to do it all again

[fromthesidelines]

"CALLING ALL CARS" also happened to be a popular syndicated radio series in the mid-'30s (primarily on the West Coast, which Tex and his fellow animators enjoyed listening to), utilizing a police dispatcher spelling out the title {"Calling all cars, calling all cars..."}.

[MoRo1333]

hahah...the climbing is EPIC! :D

[bossmandadon4life]

hes sayin fuckin aire lol funny as hell

[AnadoxX]

Polly wants crack!

[sm9847]

Because....because....because.­....because....I am a man!

[Burromovie]

@sm9847 oh boy oh boy oh boy i wanna be a sailor to oh boy

the duck is sooo cool

[ClassicTVMan81]

This cartoon was released September 25, 1937 (is first cartoon of the 1937-1938 release season); and was reissued on April 30, 1949.

[leperck989]

Now what would I do with a child like that ?

[leperck989]

What would I do with a child like that ?

[isisap123]

lol kurt must loved it

[DrumBeast05]

but he never did, the needle brain lol

[DrumBeast05]

ya big sissy lol. I remember watching this cartoon on tape every day

[26NaeNae26]

Now you don't wanna be a sailor do ya? Yeeeeeeeeees. WHAT! LMB0! That part cracked me up so bad when I was little. I still have the tape. L0L. Oh yeah and the Ya big sissy part too. L0L

[01milkchocolate]

OK, does anyone know what the mother is saying on 6:00?

[testodude]

She's singing a line from "Old Black Joe".

" I'm coming, I'm coming, for my head is bending low"

It's an old Stephen Foster song. Paul Robeson, the great African American bass (the "Old Man River" dude from Show Boat), released a pretty popular version of it in 1936, not long before this cartoon came out. Meaningless to the plot of the cartoon, but even back then, writers snuck in pop culture references and topical humor.

[testodude]

BTW-- the song is also called "Poor Old Joe"

[Hotshotter3000]

@testodude a lot of cartoons of the time were parodies or references to other movies.

[testodude]

@Hotshotter3000 Sure. You are dead on. Old cartoons were full of gags with topical, cultural, and even historical references. They expected a little more from their audiences than modern stuff.

[Hotshotter3000]

@testodude That's true, too. But remember, there was no TV at the time (actually there was, but it was in its infancy and still highly experimental with no movies or dedicated programs for it), so all cartoons where shown at cinemas, and most people who go there would have been adults with young children only being there with their parents.

[01milkchocolate]

Does anyone what the kid saying on 5:54?

[babygiraffe123]

He says, "Calling all cars, calling all cars!"

[DETFRANCIS]

i think he says " callin all cars callin all cars" as if its a police call

[JPaxton1616]

Oh my goodness! I had this on vhs when I young. I watched so many times I could almost quote line for line. My tape broke, but GOD bless the internet!

[krystalericalewis]

yuh big sissy rofl

[Steamer15hp]

Polly wants crack  R-O-F-L-M-A-O

[Rockercaa]

like this:D polly wants a cracker.;D

like nirvana's song;D

[babygiraffe123]

I swear, at 3:32, it sounds like he's saying, "Fuckin' ear." But I know he's actually saying "Buccaneer." LOL

[Hotshotter3000]

@babygiraffe123 I think the original animators knew that, too, so they kept it in knowing that the audience would laugh at their audacity.

[93pip]

That song is 'I'm the captain's kid'. It was sung by Sybil Jason in her film 'The captain's kid' in 1936.

[WNM52]

See?!

[SIMPFANN]

According to my count, he says that nine times. See?!

[kalamityspongecake]

Ain't I the talkingest little guy?

[Skullworld]

yay! my favorite classic cartoon!

[fromthesidelines]

This was first released in September 1937 (this is the 1950 reissue}, and directed by Fred "Tex" Avery, featuring several of his trademark gags (including the finish)...

[PF9ThePikachuLover]

do you know of any other BR reissues that have the 49-50 rings at the end?

[ClassicTVMan81]

"He was Her Man" (rel. January 2, 1937)

"Bedtime for Sniffles" (rel. November 23, 1940)