Alfalfa singing "Barber of Seville"

[Henry]

OMG, that's it!  Thank you so much, David!  All I had to do was ask!  Huh! I
am not worthy... 

Now if I could only the full cartoon on DVD or download, I'd be beside
myself.

FWIW, Tubby the Tuba on YouTuba, uh, YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVdHrF9QrQU 


HENRY MUSIKAR
Information, Media, and Technology Consultant

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Henry asked:
> I have a 1950's stop-motion animation question: can anyone place some (or
> maybe it was just one) very well done short with armies made up of nuts
and
> bolts? I remember it as rather serious and a little frightening.

"Tulips Shall Grow" (1942) by George Pal?

>From http://www.awn.com/heaven_and_hell/PAL/GP7.htm  (which includes some
tiny clips):

"George Pal's Revenge on the Nazis: Pal and his wife Czoka fled Holland as
the Nazis were trashing Europe. He saw firsthand the horrors inflicted on
innocent, peaceful people by these fascists. When he started making films in
America, one of his first was this excellent anti-war piece in which an
innocent pair of Dutch lovers are terrorized by the invading Screwball army.
The faceless, inhuman, mechanical (literally, made of nuts and bolts),
"sieg-hiel"-ing screwballs are a dark parody of the same faceless inhumanity
that could mechanically exterminate innocent lives."

Also involved in this film was, I believe, Ray Harryhausen. (See the last QA
on this page: per
http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=Special+Features&article_no=1073&page=1 )

Check out this beautiful set of Harryhausen movie posters:
http://members.fortunecity.com/ymir1/harryflm.html 





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