A Coach for Cinderella

1936 Animation 9 minutes Directed by Norman B. Terry

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About A Coach for Cinderella

Cinderella wants out of the house where her stepsisters make her work. A gnome who has been watching her waits until she sleeps, takes her measurements, and tells the other gnomes in the woods that she once helped them. They sew her a dress and build a carriage out of things in the forest. They run the carriage through a machine called the modernizer. What comes out is a new Chevrolet. She drives it to the ball. The rest of the night is in the sequel, A Ride for Cinderella.

Cast & crew

More about A Coach for Cinderella

Max Fleischer directed this Technicolor advertisement for Chevrolet. Jamison Handy produced it. The Jam Handy Organization distributed it. Sammy Timberg wrote the music. Release date 24 September 1936. The catalog line that the car is a 1946 Chevrolet does not match the 1936 Chevrolet short.

Themes

Background

A 1936 Chevrolet advertisement told as a Cinderella cartoon and shown through Jam Handy.

Making

Fleischer's studio made the cartoon as a sponsored film for Jam Handy, with the product saved for the last transformation.

Technique

Filmed in Technicolor.

Music

Sammy Timberg wrote the music.

Preservation

The short is in the public domain. Copies are on the Internet Archive and Wikimedia Commons.

Notes

  • A circulating copy runs 9 minutes and 21 seconds.
  • The film is in the public domain.
  • A Ride for Cinderella continues the night at the ball.
  • Wikidata also lists 1937 among the publication dates.

Scenes

  • The gnome measures Cinderella while she sleeps.
  • The forest carriage goes into the modernizer and comes out a Chevrolet.

Influenced by

  • The Cinderella tale

Influenced

  • A Ride for Cinderella

Also available

  • Internet Archive (Coachfor1936)
  • Wikimedia Commons (A Coach for Cinderella (1936) by Max Fleischer.webm)