Miles Standish Hardship

'The Hardship of Miles Standish' released April 27, 1940. Bob Bruce is radio announcer (with NBC chimes) and old timer (doing Bill Thompson's old-timer from Fibber McGee and Molly). Sara Berner's the boy and "Priscilla" Mae Oliver. Blanc is "Hugh Herbert" Standish. "See your local newspaper" was something radio newscasts had to say in the 30s due to legal dispute with newspaper industry.

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[Harlan346]

It's definitely Bob Bruce doing the radio announcer. Very distinctive voice. Rather quick voice segue to do grandpa's voice. But then they edit pix and mix> So he could have done it in an edit and they buttoned it up in mix to pix.

I can absolutely verify that Bob can can do a grandpa voice. He did one in my voiceover studio for radio spots.

BTW does anyone know where I can get Bob's autobiography, "Life As A Third Banana." Dingdanged if I can find it on the web in a Google search.

[jgbennie]

@Harlan346 Bob Bruce wrote a book?!? I'd buy it. First I've heard of it.

I knew they edited the sound on film but I've never known the process. I'm used to grease pencils, razor blades and splicing tape, something confined to the barrel of obsolesence.

[OldsVistaCruiser]

Bugs said something far worse at the end of "Rhapsody Rabbit". If you'll "pardon my French", he mouthed "f***ing a**hole".

[Dietpepsivanilla]

They were too Indians! They were the CLEVELAND INDIANS!!!

[Kartoonkid95]

Bruce does a good other voice besides that "announcer" voice we're more familiar with.

[tchetta]

Wow! I never realized that I had memorized practically every word of this episode memorized. I haven't seen it in at least 10 years. See what drawing in front of the TV can do!

[Urilious]

The Hardship of Miles Standish and Confederate Honey seems like they could have worked as Egghead cartoons (if you think about the time period)

[WarehouseOfWarpage]

7:01 So! Laugh at my boner will they?! I'll show them how many boners the Joker can make!

5:46 Now I know who Gaston got his shooting lessons from.

[zatchfan202]

At first you don't succeed try try again say very good very good ho ho ho very good very good very good ho ho ho

[HaggisMcCrablice]

@SteveCarras --"Drink Only To Me With Thine Eyes", I believe.

@TeamRocket2010 --Though first given the name two years before, this character wouldn't consistently be referred to as "Elmer Fudd" for several years yet. @ricsanta1 -- Consider also the 1960 Walter Lantz short, "Billion-Dollar Boner". Somewhere some young lady is thinking, "I'd sure like to be the appraiser on that one."

Priscilla turned up years later in a TINY TOON ADVENTURES SHORT as one of the Acme Looniversity staff.

[wileyk209zback]

@musicom67 Yep, I almost seem to think he was intended to NOT say it out loud, but the music and lip movements hint he has to be saying that line silently, Typical classic WB innuendo!

[ShadowDragonFilms]

clevland indians LOL

[TeamRocket2010]

This is Elmer Fudd before he encountered with Bugs Bunny.

[gitanalolita]

As a fan of Fibber McGee & Molly radio show, it's interesting seeing its connection to this cartoon. Arthur Q. Bryan, voicing Elmer Fudd, also played Doc Gamble, a regular on Fibber McGee & Molly. Another regular, Bill Thompson, voiced several characters on show, including elderly Old Timer. Old Timer's catch-phrase was "That's not the way I heered it." It became so popular in 1940s, anyone watching grandfather saying it in this cartoon would have immediately thought of Old Timer.