Ding Dog Daddy (1942)

[summer_jackel]

Oh, how neat. I just found a Merrie Melodies short that was one of my very favorite childhood cartoons. I probably haven't seen this since I was ten.

More info about the short is here.

Fun fact: metal dog garden statues were very fashionable in the late Victorian-early Edwardian era, but many of them were melted down for artillery in the wars, as is shown in this cartoon. Terhune mentions them in 'Grey Dawn.' Surviving examples are rare and valuable, and I would very much love to have a replica some day.

Comments

[stoda.livejournal.com]

Hah! Yeah, I remember that one well... it's probably on one of our laserdisk collections too.

The scene with pulling the 'key' out under the gate still cracks me up.

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Pretty funny. That bulldog is more bluster than bite, though.

[the-twf.livejournal.com]

Ah, the days before the kiddification of animation... when Donald was a Nazi and Casper's pet fox got shotgunned and you could have someone's love interest melted down to make weaponry.

[archteryx.livejournal.com]

Well, at least the pet fox got a happy afterlife, even after being gunned down. (Also consider that Casper's own backstory is that of a murdered child, so him teaming up with spirit!Ferdie fit right in).

Still, quite a shock to someone used to the Animation Age Ghetto.

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Neat! I've seen more of the WB stuff than anything else, because those were shown a lot when I was a kid. Do you have links to Nazi Donald and/or the gunned-down fox one?

I'm fond of the old wartime cartoons. Fascinating.

[archteryx.livejournal.com]

Here's the Casper short:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrUbXxDEfIU

(It's called There's Good Boos To-night, and it was released shortly after WWII, back when theatrical cartoons were still mostly aimed at adults. The title ALONE gives that away).

Donald Duck as a Nazi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2I7rlmefA8. Title was, of course, Der Fuehrer's Face, and it's a pretty piece of wartime propaganda. Rather ironic, too, considering that old Walt himself was something of a Nazi sympathizer.