Underplayed Gems

Those Were Wonderful Days (1934)

Those Were Wonderful Days poster
Directed by
Bernard B. Brown
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
7 min
Rating
5.2 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This is a short animated comedy from the Merrie Melodies series. It features a series of gags and jokes set to music. The film was lost for many years before being rediscovered and restored.

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What happens

Those Were Wonderful Days is a 1934 American animated comedy short film directed by Bernard B. Brown. It was originally released on April 26, 1934. It is the 33rd film in the Merrie Melodies series. The original "So Long Folks" sequence was thought to have been lost due to a splice between an airing of Honeymoon Hotel which features that short's closing sequence. The original short, except for the titles, was found on a Nickelodeon Looney Tunes airing from 1990. However, a restored print with the correct closing sequence was first featured in a 2021 episode of MeTV's classic animation series Toon In with Me. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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