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The Cobweb Hotel (1936)

The Cobweb Hotel poster
Directed by
Dave Fleischer
Genre
musical film
Country
United States
Runtime
8 min
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 17 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A spider runs a fake hotel in an office desk. A pair of flies check in but soon discover the spider's true intentions.

whimsicalmusicalplayfullightheartedquaintdatedcartoonish

What happens

The Cobweb Hotel is a 1936 American animated short film directed by Dave Fleischer, produced by Fleischer Studios, and is one of the short films that belongs to the Color Classics film series. Animated by David Tendlar and William Sturm, the setting is said to be one of the Fleischer's desks, which the spider used to open the hoax hotel. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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