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Further color snipes, such as ones using a clock and featuring singing and dancing hot dogs, popcorn boxes, candy bars, etc. took cue from this trailer, and directed [[drive-in theater]] patrons to the snack bar. Such shorts are still used for this purpose. |
Further color snipes, such as ones using a clock and featuring singing and dancing hot dogs, popcorn boxes, candy bars, etc. took cue from this trailer, and directed [[drive-in theater]] patrons to the snack bar. Such shorts are still used for this purpose. |
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The film is parodied in ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "[[Burns' Heir]]" in which [[Mr. Burns]] sings and dances with the snacks. A more indirect parody occurs in ''[[Kung Pow: Enter the Fist]]'', during a sudden and brief "intermission" (in the style of ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]''), when various characters from that film appear on a Chinese-styled background describing their favorite snacks. |
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It is also parodied in [[The Animation Show]] by [[Mike Judge]] and [[Don Hertzfeldt]]. Before the intermission, a puffball figure that was previously deformed to have elongated legs and an arm disproportionally larger than the other catches on fire, and is seen walking on and off the screen as the snacks dance to the tune. |
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Revision as of 16:04, 2 February 2007
Let's All Go to the Lobby is a 1953 musical animated snipe played as an advertisement before the beginning of the main film. It featured talking concession stand products singing as a family of four (Dad, Mom & 2 kids) headed to the snackbar as they sang their refrain, "Let's all go to the lobby to get ourselves a treat" to the tune of "We Won't be Home Until Morning".
The trailer was animated by Dave Fleischer (of Popeye fame) and produced by Filmack Studios of Chicago Il., a company that specialized in snipes. It was part of a series of Technicolor trailers aimed at alerting audiences about a theater's newly installed concession stand.
In 2000 the United States Library of Congress deemed the short "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.
Further color snipes, such as ones using a clock and featuring singing and dancing hot dogs, popcorn boxes, candy bars, etc. took cue from this trailer, and directed drive-in theater patrons to the snack bar. Such shorts are still used for this purpose.
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