Famous Studios Cartoon - The Mite Makes Right - 1948

The story of Tom Thumb as told by Famous Studios.

Unable to help his father around the farm, Tom Thumb decides to run away and join the circus.

Release October 15, 1948 (Per IMDB)

Directed by Bill Tytla

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• cartoon
• tom
• thumb
• mite
• makes
• right
• animation

[Eszra]

I love this cartoon! Tom Thumb and His mouse circus!

[BetaArchiveCommunity]

Half of the original titles! WHAAAAAAAAAAAA!

[katinaanimator]

The director, Bill Tytla, was one of Walt Disney's top animators (he animated Grumpy, Doc, Stromboli, and Dumbo) who left shortly after the strike, and never found work as satisfying as work at Disney again. He had worked for Paul Terry before coming to Disney, which is why he ended up back there directing this cartoon.

[ParamountCartoons]

@lno2k6

Actually, they didn't retain the original color process. They just forgot to remove the "Color by Technicolor" line.

[videodoe]

@RJRanke----Yes!!! I remember that cartoon too! Tom lived with his full-size, burly, and adoring lumberjack dad who had a beard. In the 'toon, Tom ran away (or something like that) and the dad thought he was dead. It was quite the dramatic tear-jerker, as I recall. I would LOVE to see that cartoon again. It made me very emotional as a kid... because Tom was sooo cute and the dad was so kind and loving.

[lno2k6]

The first time I've seen an NTA release retaning the original color type!

[fromthesidelines]

Naturally, NTA just covered up "Copyright 1948 by Paramount Pictures, Inc.", 'sygo'. If the notice had been one unbroken line, "All Rights Reserved" would have been eliminated as well. The narrator, incidentally, is radio announcer Charles Irving (he did a lot of ABC's New York shows at the time), who also narrated several "Screen Songs" as well.

[fromthesidelines]

Originally released by Paramount (you can barely see the studio logo before the "Noveltoon" title appears on screen at :16). Cecil{e} Roy, who was previously the voice of the studio's "Little Lulu", is "Tom's" voice here.

[RJRanke]

The Warner Brothers cartoon Tom Thumb in Trouble was one of Chuck Jones' concious attempts to emulate the Disney style of story-yet it maintained the Warner bros. identity.I think Tom's voice in that one was Sara Berner-or whoever voiced the mouse Sniffles.

[Awesome260]

Thank you.