Molly Moo-Cow and Rip Van Winkle
About Molly Moo-Cow and Rip Van Winkle
Molly Moo-Cow's conscience tells her not to drink the brew that put Rip Van Winkle to sleep for twenty years. She drinks it. She meets the little men, throws a keg party, and bowls against a ghostly double of herself. She wakes Rip just as the iris closes.
Cast & crew
More about Molly Moo-Cow and Rip Van Winkle
Burt Gillett and Tom Palmer directed it. Winston Sharples wrote the music. Van Beuren made it as a Rainbow Parade cartoon. RKO released it on 27 December 1935. A listing gives 8 minutes. The character of Rip is Washington Irving's.
Themes
Making
Gillett and Palmer drop Molly into Irving's story and give her the drink instead of the hunter.
Music
Winston Sharples wrote the music.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- The conscience is a speaking warning she ignores.
- The bowling partner is her own ghostly double.
- The keg party is hers, after the brew.
- The iris-out comes as Rip wakes.
Scenes
- Molly drinks the brew against her conscience.
- She bowls against a ghost of herself.
- Rip wakes as the iris closes.
Influenced by
- Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Burt Gillett and Tom Palmer - Rainbow Parade - Molly Moo-Cow and Rip Van Winkle (1935).webm)
