Granite Hotel

Granite Hotel
Directed by Dave Fleischer
Produced by Max Fleischer
Adolph Zukor
Studio Fleischer Studios
Distributed by Paramount Studios
Release date(s)
  • April 26, 1940 (1940-04-26) (U.S.)
Running time 6 minutes 17 seconds
Country United States
Language English

Granite Hotel is a 1940 American short film directed by Dave Fleischer. Released in April of that year, it was the fourth in the Stone Age Cartoons series.[1][2] The film is now in public domain.[3]

Plot summary

Set in a modern stone-age time, the viewer is presented to a gallery of characters like a telephone operator, the ventriloquist "Edgar Burgundy" and his doll "Charlie Bacardi" (a play on Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy) and a barber. A guest in need of a chess player calls the fire department who arrives riding a sauropod.[4]

Cast

Characters

References

  1. Graham Webb. The animated film encyclopedia: a complete guide to American shorts, features and sequences 1900-1979, p198. ISBN 078640728X, ISBN 9780786407286. McFarland, 2000.
  2. Motion picture herald, Volume 139, Issues 1-6. igley Pub. Co. 1940.
  3. staff. "Fleischer". retrofilmvault. Retrieved March 16, 2012.
  4. José Luis Sanz. Starring T. rex!: Dinosaur Mythology and Popular Culture, p31. ISBN 0253341531, ISBN 9780253341532. Indiana University Press, 2002.

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