Stoopnocracy - Fleischer Screen Song 1933

[Ivanatis]

thanks

[RayPointer]

I believe at 7:13 that is Harold Nicholas at age 12 portraying the "Baby Cab Calloway."

[MyprettyBubble]

@RayPointer

Wow, i'm glad i read the comments, i was thinking to myself is that a little girl? and why are they calling her Baby? and why is she scat singing, is it Baby Esther, i thought to myself, So it really was a little boy thx for the info raypointer.

[RayPointer]

@MyprettyBubble No, that wasn't "Baby Esther." A picture of her has recently surfaced after decades of searching. It was proven that Baby Esther originated the "baby talk" singing style popularized by Helen Kane, who later sued Paramount and Fleischer Studios, claiming she had originated this.

[sunspott]

STOOPNOCRACY IS PEACHY!

[ThePopeyeFan]

Didn't anyone notice that this has original titles without the Paramount logo?!

[Cresantstar]

@ThePopeyeFan

not to mention all the soundtracks that appear in this short can be heard in many betty boop cartoons

also at 01:43 betty boops theme can be heard and the lion is drawing many sketches of betty boop, my first time seeing this

[RayPointer]

The word is "Music Cues," not "soundtracks. You imply that the recording were reused, which is not the case.

Many of the musical themes would be reused and rearranged at a tempo fitting that cartoon. So they would make a whole new recording incorporating that cue.

The "soundtrack" is the physical photographic sound wave pattern printed on the film and the integrated sound for playback in theaters or television.

[RayPointer]

@Cresantstar It's not the "soundtracks" taht can be heard. It's the music cues, which were performed each time a score was recorded for the cartoon. They did not reuse these tracks as a general rule because the technology did not produce as clean of a reproduction as the live recording at the time.

[RayPointer]

@ThePopeyeFan Yes.

[karellison]

They mention this cartoon at the end of their skit the movie INTERNATIONAL HOUSE. I thought Stoopnocracy was just a silly synthetic word until I saw this on Youtube!

[Julian9ehp]

The word parallels (& parodies) Technocracy, a "scientific" social movement of the 1930s.

[fromthesidelines]

Frederick Chase Taylor {aka "Colonel Lemuel Q. Stoopnagle"} and Budd Hulick appeared regularly on radio at the time with their off-center brand of humor- and one of their rare movie appearances was this "Screen Song"...

[RatPfink66]

Col. Stoop was so concerned with "not" doing things that he actually appeared as Santa Claus on television, then a very private experiment, to allow all the children of America to NOT see him.

[GOTHMIDNIGHTMERMAID]

I'm not sure if my last message went through or not Betty Boop music on 01:43, a cartoon drawing a cartoon kind of like the Jungle Jinks cartoon I think it was a cartoon making a cartoon. Was the lion drawing Betty Boop? The lyrics where kind of hard to read & was that dynamyte on 09:40? a 1933 Flieser cartoon? that's a pretty early & entertaining cartoon..

[ginerzinwonderland]

i think he was drawing betty boop, since it did play her theme song in the background during that part..

[FrankLJ]

Yes the animators were making fun of themselves - since they are claiming other people are crazy, well, how about someone who keeps obsessively drawing pictures (g).That is definitely Betty Boop.

[RayPointer]

@FrankLJ The joke is that Animators are a bit "unusual," and the repetitive nature of making animated cartoons is something of a "crazy business." It's not the obsession about drawing pictures that makes someone crazy. If that were so, then the old Masters such as Michealangelo daVinci should have been committed centuries ago.

[RayPointer]

@ginerzinwonderland That's the idea. That is what you are supposed to be seeing.

[GOTHMIDNIGHTMERMAID]

Betty Boop music 01:37 & it was kind of hard reading some of the lyrics on: 06:03. Was that dynamyte on 09:44? This was made in 1933? that's a pretty early Flieser bros. cartoon.

[zootsmcgurn]

I traded someone a vhs tape full of 80's mighty mouse cartoons for a tape of really bad quality Fleischer cartoons years ago. This was on there.

[nedsparks]

"Mighty Mouse?" He must have been off his nut! I'd rather be stranded with a dogfish on the Barnegat Shoals. In Stoopnocrazy you get to see and hear Harold Nicholas doing his impersonation of Cab Calloway! Would Mighty Mouse ever allow that?

[lakeviewviking]

@zootsmcgurn The title is obviously a reference to the Technocracy movement, which was at its peak in 1933.

[SIMPFANN]

Love the early Fleischer cartoons- where the hell did you find this?