Raggedy Ann in, "The Enchanted Square" (1947)

In this Paramount / Noveltoon production a police officer gives a little blind girl a doll, and she is told she can see it if she uses her imagination; she does so and the slum neighborhood is transformed into an enchanted fairyland, alive with beautiful colors and music.

At first one thinks that this cartoon was strictly for little girls, but not so: the message and the way it's presented is rather profound for people of any age and gender.

Director:Seymour Kneitel
Writers:Orestes Calpini, Shane Miller
Release Date:9 May 1947
Genre:Animation / Short
Plot Keywords:Noveltoon / Raggedy Ann
Runtime:10 min
Country:USA
Language:English
Color:Color (Technicolor)
Sound Mix:Mono
Company:Famous Studios

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• public
• domain
• video

[TheLuminica]

How beautiful were these cartoons. Now at days children got Family Guy, with a main character that is dumb and lazy and a baby who wants to kill his mother. : / How sad the world became.

[10Itoruna]

I may have just turned 15, but I am one of the few people my age who appreciates masterpieces like Raggedy Ann, and not Jersey Shore like my classmates. This made me not tear, but literally SOB. The singing, the girl, her mother, Raggedy Ann, and imagination, which many people today seem to lack. It's just... so beautiful.

[bubblinbrownsugar616]

@TheLuminica Well Family Guy isn't necessarily a show for children though I understand where you're coming from. All the unReality shows.....just complete and utter trash.

[dudetta91]

that was lovely :)

[JediKnightTahl]

@digigirl986 My mother still has that tape. It works just as well as the day we bought it!

[shaketilubreak]

Also Raggedy Anne's voice changes so drastically when she started singing HAHAHA!

[shaketilubreak]

I haven't seen this one in years.

[doctorfeelucky]

the music at the end must've came from that one cartoon of the looney tunes where Elmer Fudd was conducting an orchestra while Porky Pig was hunting wabbit

[digigirl986]

@honeyxghurl I had one of those tapes it was in a pink case and it was simply called Cartoon Classics. It was the best tape to watch with over six hours of cartoon on it. I don't think it works anymore though its so old.

[digigirl986]

Another favorite! My sister often wondered as to how she knew the colors of things if she was blind.

[lannydragonlover]

@evenyscrewd LOL

[lannydragonlover]

Oh. I remember this. How I loved this so much ! In a way I felt like this, but I wasn't blind.