A scary snowman who means business menaces some cute cartoon characters with idol-worshiping tendencies in this apparently somewhat controversial 1932 ‘toon released by RKO, possibly somewhat influenced by James Whale’s “Frankenstein.”
This, on the other hand, actually is Frosty, and jazzy, too.
Just a few moments from Jon Favreau’s underrated “Elf.”
The voice of the Polar Bear was done by stop motion animation legend Ray Harryhausen.
“No Country for Red Suited Old Men.” A scene you won’t seen in a Coen brothers Western or semi-Western: Gene Autry sings and Jay Silverheels (Tonto of “The Lone Ranger”) appreciates his generosity and tunefulness in “The Cowboy and the Indians.”
You can call this paternalistic, and I don’t suppose you’d be wrong, but there’s also something kind of sweet about it, too.
Fun facts I just learned (or had forgotten): The Lone Ranger himself, Clayton Moore, actually has a small role in “The Cowboy and the Indians” but was, ironically, already costarring with Silverheels in the masked-hero western TV series by the time this movie was released in 1949, which makes a much older television show than I quite realized. I guess that makes it one of the very earliest filmed television series back when the vast majority of TV was live and television itself was a fairly newfangled item.
This one’s for all you lonely folks out there, though please drink plenty of water and have cab fair ready should you attempt the 1960 behavior seen below as C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmons) waits out some not entirely welcome guests and briefly makes a new friend.
Katie Fineran won a Tony on Broadway for playing the equivalent role in the musical adaptation of the Billy Wilder-I.A.L. Diamond screenplay for “The Apartment,” “Promises, Promises” and I understand through friends who’ve seen the show that it was well deserved. Even so, the evocatively named Hope Holiday does a pretty bang-up job here as well as Mrs. Margie MacDougal.
Just in time for all your Tronica festivities.
H/t Topless Robot.
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