Retromercial: Breakfast Pals (1939)

Aint that swell?

OMG, that was so cute!

*sigh* Cartoons used to be so delightfully violent. Now days they're quite dull.

Well, 1RichardHunt, I believe the studio that made this short was Cartoon Films, Limited. In addition to this cartoon from 1939, they also made four cartoons from 1937: "A Squirt in Time", "Cops and Robbers", "The Brookfield Belles Present a Date with Kate" and "The Oilympic Games Endurance Relay".

I like to think that kid in red is a young Hugh Hefner, I mean look at that robe!

What studio made this short? Was it the Fleischer studio, Walt Disney's studio or Walter Lantz's? The animation timing is teriffic.

As for television: Theoretically, there was one "regular broadcast" TV station in the US from 30 April 1939, WNBT in NYC, broadcasting to litterally a few dozen sets (well behind the UK, where a few thousand Londoners were watching BBC TS, until 1 September shutdown.
TV was the talk of the US in 1948, but not really mass market until about 1951. Color in US (officially 1953) was hampered by a "chicken and egg" problem until fall 1965 TV season.

Thanks for all your knowledge, 1L6E6VHF ! Your research is impressive!

Movie theater short cartoons started going color in a big way about 1935, 3 years after the first 3-color "Flowers And Trees". It made economic sense to make them in color, since with only 8 minutes (about 720') of film, the expense was not nearly as great as feature film.
The music, title graphics, and animation style are all consistent with those of 1939, when the iconic color feature films "Gone With The Wind" and "The Wizard Of Oz" hit the screen.