Swing Cleaning
About Swing Cleaning
Spring cleaning starts at King Little's palace. Gabby, a servant there, takes over the housework. He wrecks the rooms and gets in the staff's way. The short ends with the king and the household throwing things at him.
Cast & crew
More about Swing Cleaning
Dave Fleischer directed the Gabby short. Paramount distributed it. A listing dated April 11, 1941 is the U.S. release used by program guides. Pinto Colvig and Jack Mercer are the voices named in the catalog credits. The picture is a Fleischer cartoon, not a Warner Bros. release.
Themes
Background
Paramount distributed this Gabby short in April 1941. The production credit used for it is Fleischer Studios.
Preservation
A print survives and is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Wikidata gives 7 minutes. A circulating WebM of this short runs 6 minutes 33 seconds.
- Gabby had already been the town crier in Fleischer's feature Gulliver's Travels (1939). This short puts him on the palace staff.
- The Internet Animation Database places Fire Cheese immediately after Swing Cleaning in the Gabby series.
Scenes
- Gabby supervises the palace cleaning and leaves the rooms worse.
- King Little and the staff throw whatever is at hand at him.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Gabby - Swing Cleaning (1941) by Dave and Max Fleischer.webm)
