Happy sunshine-bottling gnomes battle gloomy swamp-dwellers.Happy sunshine-bottling gnomes battle gloomy swamp-dwellers.Happy sunshine-bottling gnomes battle gloomy swamp-dwellers.
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- TriviaThis cartoon was re-issued as an advertisement film for Borden's in the early 1940s.
- Crazy creditsThis Entertainment brought to you by Borden's
- Alternate versionsOriginally released in two-color Technicolor as an entry in Van Beuren's "Rainbow Parade Cartoon" series. Re-issued in the 1940s in Cinecolor as an advertisement for the Borden Company.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Get Crazy (1983)
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The Sunshine Makers is one '30s cartoon that was ahead of its time
Having read about this cartoon short from the Van Beuren Studios for several years, I finally got to see this when I randomly picked animated shorts on YouTube. What a wonderfully strange and musically humorous cartoon this was! Seeing all those happy little elves singing of glad times while making milk in contrast to all those sad ones warbling of how they're "happy when they're sad" and then turn into the opposite due to the milk being forced into their mouths with the sunshine brightening their bodies is nothing short of psychedelic three decades before that became fashionable! This, along with Disney's Fantasia, might have been a "hit" with the hippie crowd during the late '60s! And dig the fact that it's sponsored by Borden! I'm surprised someone didn't try to add Borden's mascot Elsie the Cow! So on that note, I highly recommend The Sunshine Makers.
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- tavm
- Sep 26, 2008
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- Runtime7 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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