A Car-Tune Portrait is a 1937 Color Classics cartoon directed by Dave Fleischer and David Tendlar.
Summary[]
A symphony composer lion is determined to show the audience that cartoon animal characters can be more than just silly and childish by having cartoons play a symphony orchestra. Things quickly fall apart as the true nature of cartoons comes out anyways.
Plot[]
A tale about the animator's hand that is drawing the pictures of some crazy animals playing music. Although the opening is in the mode of the Out Of The Inkwell films, the cartoon characters - especially the orchestra conductor, a lion - attempt to prove that they can perform on a higher level of dignity and culture until everything falls apart, resorting to their usual mode of behavior - satire and mayhem.
Orchestra characters[]
- Conductor Lion
- Horse
- Fly
- Dogs
- Cat
- Goat
- Elephant
- Hippo
- Monkeys
- Dachshund
- Seal
- Pig
- Bird
Trivia[]
- This is the last Color Classic to use the "parchment" credits design introduced in The Kids in the Shoe (1935).
- Most copies of this cartoon have an audio cut in the sequence where the animals orchestra is being drawn. The version shown on Cellulo restores the missing audio.
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| Color Classics | |
|---|---|
| 1934 | Poor Cinderella • Little Dutch Mill |
| 1935 | An Elephant Never Forgets • The Song of the Birds • The Kids in the Shoe • Dancing on the Moon • Time for Love • Musical Memories |
| 1936 | Somewhere in Dreamland • The Little Stranger • The Cobweb Hotel • Greedy Humpty Dumpty • Hawaiian Birds • Play Safe • Christmas Comes But Once a Year |
| 1937 | Bunny-Mooning • Chicken a La King • A Car-Tune Portrait • Peeping Penguins • Educated Fish • Little Lamby |
| 1938 | The Tears of an Onion • Hold It • Hunky and Spunky • All's Fair at the Fair • The Playful Polar Bears |
| 1939 | Always Kickin' • Small Fry • The Barnyard Brat • The Fresh Vegetable Mystery |
| 1940 | Little Lambkins • Ants in the Plants • A Kick in Time • Snubbed by a Snob • You Can't Shoe a Horse Fly |
| 1941 | Vitamin Hay |