Crazytown
About Crazytown
Crazytown runs in reverse: cars take the sidewalk, people walk in the road, and a half-off sale means the furniture has been sawed in half. Monkeys feed the zoo visitors peanuts, medics haul away a crashed motorcycle and leave the pig, and a stork delivers a married couple to a waiting baby. At the track the horses ride the bettors, and at the fight club the boxers watch the crowd brawl. A dog finally gets a house up. It floods, and the fire department answers by spraying it with flame.
Cast & crew
More about Crazytown
I. Sparber directed this Noveltoon, with Al Eugster and William B. Pattengill animating and Robert Little painting the backgrounds. Izzy Klein wrote the story. Paramount opened it in Technicolor on February 26, 1954.
Themes
Making
William B. Pattengill is also listed as an animator on the Internet Animation Database. Winston Sharples wrote the score.
Music
Winston Sharples composed the score.
Preservation
A Harveytoons television print survives and has been restored for circulation. The Internet Animation Database clocks one copy at 6 minutes 5 seconds.
Notes
- Jackson Beck and Allen Swift voice the boxers. Jack Mercer voices the dog building the house. Mae Questel voices the baby and the mother.
- The Internet Animation Database times a print at 6 minutes 5 seconds and lists MPAA number 5503.
- That listing gives 35mm Technicolor, 1.37:1, and RCA mono.
- Clips from it were reused in the later Noveltoon Sportickles.
- It has been shown on The Harveytoons Show and on MeTV Toons. The circulating television print carries Harveytoons titles.
Scenes
- The furniture store's half-off sale is a pile of goods cut in two.
- A stork brings a husband and wife to an expecting baby.
- The finished doghouse floods, and the firefighters spray it with flame.
Influenced
- Sportickles, which reuses clips from this short
Also available
- DVD HarveyToons: The Complete Collection (Classic Media, 2006)
