Goopy Geer (film)

Goopy Geer
Goopy Geer
	Goopy Geer playing the piano.
Directed by	Rudolf Ising
Produced by	Hugh Harman; Rudolf Ising; Leon Schlesinger
Starring	Johnny Murray; Rudolf Ising; The King's Men
Music by	Frank Marsales
Animation by	Isadore Freleng; Rollin Hamilton; Uncredited:; Bob Clampett; Paul J. Smith; Larry Martin; Norman Blackburn; Carman Maxwell
Layouts by	Isadore Freleng (uncredited)
Backgrounds by	Art Loomer (uncredited)
Color process	Black-and-white
Production; company	Harman-Ising Productions
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures; The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	April 16, 1932;
Running time	7 minutes
Language	English

Goopy Geer is a 1932 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon short directed by Rudolf Ising, featuring the first appearance of the title character.^[1] The short was released on April 16, 1932, alongside the feature film The Crowd Roars.^[2]

Synopsis

The short from 1932, restored.

The customers in a nightclub clamor for Goopy Geer, who then comes out on the stage and entertains them by playing the piano, first with his fingers and his ears, later with his animated gloves. He's soon accompanied by a girl who tells a joke and sings a song.

Meanwhile, the customers eat and carry on in slapstick ways, and two coat racks dance together.

Toward the end, a drunken horse spits fire and destroys the piano, but Goopy keeps right on playing.

Notes

Two scenes—one involving a waiter, the other the drunken horse—are reused from the earlier Foxy short Lady, Play Your Mandolin! Also, one of the customers, a fat lady hippo, had also appeared in a Foxy short, Smile, Darn Ya, Smile!
Goopy bears some resemblance to Disney's (unnamed at the time) Goofy who first came along 39 days later.

References

^ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 10. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 104–106. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.

External links

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[Beck-1] Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 10. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.

[2] Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 104–106. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.

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