Way Back When a Nag Was Only a Horse
About Way Back When a Nag Was Only a Horse
Henry's wife hears about a sale at a stone-age department store and drags him along. He ducks into the music department and asks to hear a new tune, while women at the bargain table tear into one another. A cobra at the soda fountain shakes up a drink called a Dinosaur Delight. The wife catches him dancing with the song demonstrator, so he hauls her off by the hair, and the narrator says she loves it.
Cast & crew
More about Way Back When a Nag Was Only a Horse
Second of the twelve Stone Age Cartoons, all black and white and made at Fleischer's Miami studio. Dave Fleischer directed. Myron Waldman and George Moreno Jr. animated. Joe Stultz wrote the story. Paramount released it on March 8, 1940.
Themes
Making
Fleischer had moved the plant from New York to Miami in 1938. Waldman, who animated this short, was one of the New York hands who made that move.
Music
Sammy Timberg wrote the music for the Stone Age series. Henry stops the shopping to hear a demonstration tune.
Preservation
The copy in circulation is an U.M. & M. television print, titles and all. NTA, which took that library, did not renew the copyright.
Notes
- The title uses nag in the old sense, a horse, and then shows a shopping trip instead.
- Pinto Colvig voices Henry. Margie Hines voices his wife and the pianist. Jack Mercer is a man in the pipes.
- This short uses a different theme tune from the Stone Age cartoons that follow it.
- Surviving copies carry U.M. & M. television titles.
Scenes
- Women dismantle each other at the bargain counter.
- A cobra shakes the soda for a Dinosaur Delight.
- Henry is caught dancing with the song plugger and exits dragging his wife by the hair.
Quotes
And she loves it!
