Way Back When Women Had Their Weigh
About Way Back When Women Had Their Weigh
A cave woman sings that she wants a thin man. A heavy caveman puts himself through a prehistoric gym, with the usual racks and reducing machines, until he is slim. He steps out and finds her already keeping company with a 300-pound man. The reducing was for nothing.
Cast & crew
More about Way Back When Women Had Their Weigh
Last of the twelve Stone Age Cartoons. Dave Fleischer directed, Thomas Johnson and Harold Walker animated, and Tedd Pierce wrote it. The working title was Man About Ton. Paramount released it on September 26, 1940.
Themes
Background
The twelve Stone Age shorts, released between January 26 and September 26, 1940, did not get the audience Fleischer expected. The studio put its effort into the Gabby series instead.
Making
Pierce's story sends one man through a stone-age gym and then pairs the woman with someone heavier than the dieter started. The series stopped with this release.
Music
Sammy Timberg scored the series. The cave woman's "thin man" number sets the plot.
Preservation
Surviving copies carry NTA television titles. The copyright was not renewed.
Notes
- The title puns on "had their way.
- Pinto Colvig voices the caveman who slims down. Margie Hines is the cave woman. Jack Mercer plays another caveman and a snail.
- Working title: Man About Ton.
- Like the rest of the series, it is black and white. Fleischer was already making color Gabby and Hunky and Spunky shorts in 1940.
Scenes
- The caveman suffers through prehistoric reducing gear.
- Slim at last, he finds his girl with a 300-pound companion.
