Cleaning House (1938)
- Directed by
- Robert Allen
- Genre
- animation, comedy
- Country
- United States of America
- Runtime
- 8 min
- Rating
- 6.0 of 10 from 4 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This is a 1938 cartoon short based on The Captain and the Kids comic strip. Mama tries to keep her mischievous boys in line while dealing with chaos.
whimsicalfast-pacedslapsticklightheartedanimatedplayfulnostalgic
What happens
In 1938, the comic strip The Captain and the Kids (Rudolph Dirks' parallel version of his own strip The Katzenjammer Kids) was adapted by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, becoming the studio's first self-produced series of theatrical cartoon short subjects, directed by William Hanna, Bob Allen, and Friz Freleng. The short-lived series was unsuccessful, ending after one year and a total of 15 cartoons. Following that cancellation, Freleng returned to Leon Schlesinger Productions, where he had earlier been an animation director. The Captain was voiced by Billy Bletcher, Mama was voiced by Martha Wentworth, the kids were voiced by Shirley Reed and Jeanne Dunne, and John Silver was voiced by Mel Blanc. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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