Scrappy's Puppet Show

Scrappy's Puppet Theater (1936): A short animated/live-action promotional film for the Scrappy Puppet Theater giveaway, which must have been the best-promoted giveaway of its time. Scrappy, in creepily limited and exaggerated animation, introduces child star Edith Fellows

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Film & Animation

Tags:

• Scrappy
• animation
• Farina

[ChunkyStab]

Wow that's fantastic. They are deliciously politically incorrect but normal for the time I guess. Technically amazing. I wonder how long they took to make?

[143AC]

Dear Chunky Stab, This old "Scrappy"movie cartoon was shown on"Merrytoones

Circus"with Mr.Claude Kirchner and"Clownie"on WOR TV Ch.9 in NYC.Around 1962.

[ChunkyStab]

Hey 143ac, thanks for commenting. CS

[ktgauger]

Thank you, thank you! I have been looking for these Scrappy cartoons for years after watching them over and over in the 50's, wanting to see as an adult what they really were all aobut. I remember identifying with the littler guy and finding this particular episode to be a bit scary.

[ChunkyStab]

You're welcome. They are very bizarre and display a cruelty they'd never get away with these days. Having said that they are somehow charming at the same time. Thanks for commenting.

[ChunkyStab]

Hey 143AC, when was that? Thanks for commenting, ChunkyStab

[kirbykrisis18]

doesn't everyone miss that long-lost cartoon character so much?

[peterhuemer]

My Grandfather, Richard M. Huemer, did the Scrappy Cartoons. It's wonderful to see them posted here on YouTube. I was recently asked if there are plans to have them released to DVD. I don't know myself, but I'm passing on the question to Harry McCracken and to my father, Richard P.Huemer

[peterhuemer]

Thanks for posting this! My Grandfather was Dick Huemer (which he spelled Heumor), the creator of the Scrappy character. He later went to work for Walt Disney. It's great to see this stuff online!

[sclogse1]

I was kinda looking for Scrappy when he just walked down the street, all jaunty, and the world bounced with him...cars would be rolling along with those big patches on the tires....that's all I can remember of Scrappy...other than when somebody was calling his name over and over...in a very tiny voice...

[verbusen]

If Scrappy was around now on TV he would be shown only on late night TV, lol. Way to graphically violent for the young skulls full of mush today.

[143AC]

Dear Chunky Stab, You're Welcome! And Thanks for remembering

"Scrappy".

[Dachshund]

I meant Oopie.