Doughnuts (film)
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| Directed by | Frank Sherman George Rufle |
|---|---|
| Produced by | Amadee J. Van Beuren |
| Music by | Gene Rodemich |
| Animation by | Jim Tyer (uncredited) |
| Distributed by | R-K-O Radio Pictures |
Release date | July 7, 1933 |
Running time | 7 min. |
| Language | English |
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Doughnuts is an American animated short film produced by Van Beuren Studios in New York, N.Y. and featuring the studio's characters Tom and Jerry. It was released July 7, 1933, though one source[1] only gives a copyright date of July 10. It is in the public domain in the United States.
Synopsis[edit]
A parade, saxophones and trumpets ablaze, proclaims a baker's convention: white horses draw a float from "Cupid's Bakery," a wedding cake; flyblown donkeys pull a baker and his giant pretzel; black horses sashaying on their hind legs pull a cream puff float flanked by two effeminate dandies in lace-trimmed aprons, representatives of Pansy Brand Cream Puffs; a draft horse dances in tune with his passengers, two stereotypical Jews flaunting their wares, matzos, atop a cart whose wheels appear also to be matzos.
We cut to the populous convention itself. Tom & Jerry light up at each passerby and stick their fresh doughnuts in each face, but they fail to attract any attention. A baby toddles by, and Tom presents him a doughnut which he buries in a rich profusion of powdered sugar; but the tot rebuffs him by blowing the sugar back in his face and storming off in the direction of the crowd. The gentlemen from Pansy Cream Puffs dance enticingly but are also ignored by the crowd. Likewise the Jewish bakers proclaim a fire sale, a clearance sale, and a bankruptcy sale, but are ignored. A large crowd, however, is thronged about "3.2 Pretzels" hoisting steins of beer aloft and chanting merrily. The cashier musically taps on his cash register as coins plunk down into its drawer, though he angrily confiscates a drink from a Scot in full kilt who has tried to get away with paying with a tinny counterfeit; reclaiming his bad coin, the Highlander stuffs it into a deep purse which he then locks! The cashier-bartender squirts out eight frosty mugs for a line of customers and shaves with a razor the rich foam that tops them; the customers drink heartily.
Our Jewish friends have added more signs to their stand: "Cheap," "Moving Out," "Can't Stay." "What a business!" one proclaims; they fetch a cart on which they pile a record player and their baked goods; they proceed to the judges' stand where they demonstrate the musical worth of their confections: the round matzos function as records! A Yiddish song flows from the horn. The judges, two identical skinny gentlemen in round eyeglasses and silk hats who flank a third, a matronly lady with a monocle, wave the bearded bakers away in a gesture of dismissal and tell us in song who they are and what they do.
At Ye Pie Shoppe, moustachioed little men put the top crust on a pie; one shapes the edge with a tiny bicycle. Their fellows press balls of dough into gingerbread men; a little machine gunner fires raisins into the shaped men such that they have faces and buttons. One man proves evasive and ends up with a face on his derriere! The judges rhythmically and in unison proceed to Tom & Jerry's stand. Our heroes show them a hopper of batter, which spits balls of dough onto a conveyor belt; Jerry mounts a little steamroller atop the belt and flattens the lumps as they are conveyed. Leaping off his roller, Jerry grabs a metal pole from the same and bounces upon it as if on a pogo stick and hops down onto a stack of the batter discs such that the pole impales them, forming doughnut shapes; Jerry hops on, suspending himself in mid-air as he kicks the rings, now in a stack, now individually, into a vat of grease.
Near the hopper, a peg-legged gentleman stumbles about, taking slugs from a jug of liquor; he spills some accidentally into the doughnut batter, then falls into the dough himself, liquor in tow. He passes through the hopper onto the belt, and his misguided peg gives the pastries their needful holes. The judges salivate as they take the cakes from the belt, the lady leaping into the air as she swallows an armful. The fickle crowd shifts from the pretzels & beer over to Tom & Jerry, their drunken doughnut stamper, and their alcoholic confection. The judges dance about; the lady separates from her peers and catches the tipsy fellow as he slides along the conveyor belt. As she whirls him around, his spinning form drills a hole in the earth; she retrieves him and dances with him, just as one of her colleagues dances with the other, just as a Jew with a dandy, just as Tom with Jerry. We end with another parade, Tom & Jerry marching in front with their gigantic first prize cup, from which the lady judge and the drunk emerge and kiss.
References[edit]
- ↑ Maltin, Leonard. Of Mice and Magic: a History of American Animated Cartoons. Von Hoffmann Press, Inc., 1980. p. 395.
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