Somewhere in Dreamland (1936)

Directed by

Dave Fleischer

Genre

musical film

Country

United States

Runtime

9 min

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 29 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

During the Great Depression, two poor children fall asleep and dream of a magical place filled with candy and ice cream. The cartoon shows their brief escape from hardship into a sweet fantasy world.

whimsicalhopefuldreamlikegentlevisually vibrantnostalgicsentimentallighthearted

What happens

Somewhere in Dreamland is a 1936 animated short in Max Fleischer's Color Classics series. The film was produced by Max Fleischer, directed by Dave Fleischer, and was animated by Fleischer veterans Seymour Kneitel and Roland Crandall. The cartoon, set during the contemporary Great Depression, follows two impoverished children who dream that they are in Dreamland where there is an area full of candy and ice cream. The cartoon is Fleischer's first in three-strip Technicolor. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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