Stoopnocracy - Fleischer Screen Song 1933

A typically great Fleischer Screen Song featuring Stoopnagle & Budd. Quality is not great, but still watchable.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• cartoon
• animated
• cartoony
• fleischer
• screen
• song
• stoopnagle
• budd

[zootsmcgurn]

I traded someone a vhs tape full of 80's mighty mouse cartoons for a tape of really bad quality Fleischer cartoons years ago. This was on there.

[lakeviewviking]

@zootsmcgurn The title is obviously a reference to the Technocracy movement, which was at its peak in 1933.

[RayPointer]

@FrankLJ The joke is that Animators are a bit "unusual," and the repetitive nature of making animated cartoons is something of a "crazy business." It's not the obsession about drawing pictures that makes someone crazy. If that were so, then the old Masters such as Michealangelo daVinci should have been committed centuries ago.

[RayPointer]

@ginerzinwonderland That's the idea.  That is what you are supposed to be seeing.

[RayPointer]

@Cresantstar It's not the "soundtracks" taht can be heard. It's the music cues, which were performed each time a score was recorded for the cartoon. They did not reuse these tracks as a general rule because the technology did not produce as clean of a reproduction as the live recording at the time.

[RayPointer]

@ThePopeyeFan Yes.

[RayPointer]

@MyprettyBubble No, that wasn't "Baby Esther." A picture of her has recently surfaced after decades of searching. It was proven that Baby Esther originated the "baby talk" singing style popularized by Helen Kane, who later sued Paramount and Fleischer Studios, claiming she had originated this.

[MyprettyBubble]

@RayPointer

Wow, i'm glad i read the comments, i was thinking to myself is that a little girl? and why are they calling her Baby? and why is she scat singing, is it Baby Esther, i thought to myself, So it really was a little boy thx for the info raypointer.

[Ivanatis]

thanks

[RayPointer]

I believe at 7:13 that is Harold Nicholas at age 12 portraying the "Baby Cab Calloway."

[RayPointer]

The word is "Music Cues," not "soundtracks. You imply that the recording were reused, which is not the case.

Many of the musical themes would be reused and rearranged at a tempo fitting that cartoon. So they would make a whole new recording incorporating that cue.

The "soundtrack" is the physical photographic sound wave pattern printed on the film and the integrated sound for playback in theaters or television.