Fire Cheese
About Fire Cheese
Gabby, in a helpful mood, walks into the local firehouse and talks at the crew. An alarm sends them out. He chases the engine and takes over once the chief is stuck with Gabby's hat jammed down over his head. Gabby's command of the fire makes it worse.
Cast & crew
More about Fire Cheese
Dave Fleischer directed. Jack Ward wrote the story. Steve Muffati and Joe Oriolo animated. Max Fleischer produced, and Sammy Timberg arranged the music. Paramount released the Technicolor short in the United States on June 20, 1941. It is a Fleischer Gabby cartoon. Warner Bros. did not make it.
Themes
Background
Paramount released the short on June 20, 1941. The credits used by the Internet Animation Database are still Fleischer's: Dave Fleischer, Max Fleischer, and Paramount as distributor.
Music
Sammy Timberg arranged the music.
Preservation
A print survives and is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The Internet Animation Database times the print at 6 minutes 49 seconds and lists MPAA number 2929.
- In the Gabby order used by that database, Swing Cleaning comes just before this short and Gabby Goes Fishing just after.
- A plot write-up sets the firehouse in Lilliput, the same kingdom as Gulliver's Travels, where Gabby began.
Scenes
- The chief gets Gabby's hat stuck over his face, and Gabby takes the fire.
- Gabby runs after the engine and only catches the tailboard as it stops.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Gabby Fire Cheese (1941) by Dave and Max Fleischer.webm)
