Animation ·Comedy · United States of America · 1937 · 7m

Speaking of the Weather

Speaking of the Weather poster
Director
Frank Tashlin
Cast
Mel Blanc as Conductor / Cholly Jam / Walter Snitchall Billy Bletcher as Public Enemy #1 / Judge
Crew
Treg Brown — Editor Carl W. Stalling — Original Music Composer Leon Schlesinger — Producer
Synopsis

It's midnight at the bookstore and all the book and magazine characters are coming to life. When a bulldog from an adventure book uses a Boswell Sisters-like performance by girls in a travel magazine as a distraction to rob a bank, he is chased, caught, and sentenced to, of course "Life" (the magazine). But there's also a conveniently placed "Escape" magazine....

Mood & Themes
cartoonmidnightbook storebook comes to lifeshort film
Key Collaborators
Frank Tashlin Director Treg Brown Editor Carl W. Stalling Original Music Composer Leon Schlesinger Producer
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