Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Mediocre Monkey Mayhem...The Golfers (007)

Special thanks to PopKorn Kat for a copy of this rather hard-to-find cartoon.
SERIES: Meany, Miny, and Moe
SYNOPSIS: Meany, Miny, and Moe have lots of trouble trying to play golf.
ORIGINAL RELEASE: January 11th, 1937
SUPERVISION: Walter Lantz
STORY:  Walter Lantz and Victor McLeod
ANIMATION:  Laverne Harding, Ed Benedict, and Leo Salkin
MUSICAL DIRECTION:  James Dietrich
STUDIO: Walter Lantz Productions (producer), Universal Pictures (distributor)

Pre-Show Remarks

Before I had done the research for this blog, I had no idea who Meany, Miny, and Moe even were. 
For the sake of those that might not really be in the know either, here's what I know;

They were initially created as one-shot characters for an Oswald cartoon, but I'd assume they were so popular with audiences that they requested that they give those three monkeys their own cartoons.

Many prints of this cartoon have a gag involving an African-American caricature removed. For the sake of historical accuracy and educational reasons, a screenshot of the gag will be shown.

Screenshots


In My Opinion...

Eh
It's not very good, but it's not bad, either. It feels a little juvenile--the later Pluto cartoons come to mind. The bit where the golf ball smacks into the chickens and topples them over made me chuckle. The pacing could've been a little snappier, though.

Next week...We finally reach our first Fliescher cartoon in House Cleaning Blues.

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