Cross Country Detours (1940)

Directed by

Tex Avery

Genre

animation

Country

United States

Runtime

10 min

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

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 animated short spoofs travelogues and nature documentaries by showing different parts of the United States. It uses split screens and rotoscoping and includes scenes like a lizard's censored striptease and a frog's suicide.

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What happens

Cross Country Detours is a 1940 Merrie Melodies animated short film directed by Tex Avery (credited as Fred Avery). The film was written by Rich Hogan and animated by Paul Smith. A travelogue spoof or parody of nature documentary, it presents various settings in the United States and is particularly remembered for its use of a split screen and rotoscoping as well as for featuring a scene depicting the mock self-censored striptease of a lizard and one including the suicide of a frog. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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• More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.