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Blue Monday (1938)

Blue Monday poster
Directed by
William Hanna
Genre
animation
Country
United States
Runtime
9 min
Rating
7.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A cartoon short based on the comic strip The Captain and the Kids. It shows the mischief of the kids and their interactions with the Captain and Mama.

playfullightheartedclassicfast-pacedwhimsicalcartoonishnostalgic

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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