Newman Laugh-O-Grams
About Newman Laugh-O-Grams
Walt Disney sits at a desk and draws. Four Kansas City items follow, in the form of a satirical newsreel: Cleaning Up!!?, Kansas City Girls Are Rolling Their Own Now, Did You Ever Take a Ride Over Kansas City Street in a Flivver, and Kansas City's Spring Clean-Up.
Cast & crew
More about Newman Laugh-O-Grams
Walt Disney drew and appears in this short, made for Frank Newman's Kansas City theater. A date of March 20, 1921, is on record. The four local cartoons are still drawings and simple animation. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Themes
Making
Disney filmed himself drawing, then cut the four Kansas City gags behind him.
Preservation
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The four titles are local jokes: street cleaning, women rolling their own, a flivver ride, and the spring clean-up.
- Disney is on camera at the desk, not only as a drawn figure.
- The short was made for Newman's Kansas City screen, before the later Laugh-O-gram fairy tales.
- A copy is on Wikimedia Commons under the title Newman Laugh-O-Gram.
Scenes
- Disney draws at the desk.
- The flivver ride over a Kansas City street.
