The Sunshine Makers

Name: The Sunshine Makers
Director: Ted Eshbaugh
Genre: Family, Animation
Released: 1935
Duration: 7 min

1935 Family Animation 7 minutes Directed by Ted Eshbaugh

About The Sunshine Makers

Gnomes bottle sunshine. Gloomy creatures come out of the swamp. The two sides fight, and the bottles are the weapons.

Cast & crew

Ted Eshbaugh Director

More about The Sunshine Makers

Burt Gillett and Ted Eshbaugh directed it for Van Beuren as part of the Rainbow Parade series. Amadee J. Van Beuren produced. Winston Sharples wrote the music. RKO distributed it. It runs 7 minutes. Borden sponsored a 1940 reissue. Copies are on the Internet Archive and on Wikimedia Commons.

Themes

Bottled sunshine
Swamp gloom
A fight with the bottles
gnomes
sunshine
swamp
Rainbow Parade
Van Beuren
Borden

Music

Winston Sharples composed the music.

Preservation

Copies are on the Internet Archive and on Wikimedia Commons.

Notes

The 1940 Borden reissue is a later sponsorship, not the first release.
The swamp figures are the gloom. The gnomes are the bottlers.
The Internet Archive identifier is The_Sunshine_Makers_1935.

Scenes

The gnomes turn the sunshine bottles on the figures from the swamp.

Also available

Internet Archive (The_Sunshine_Makers_1935)