085 Summertime

 

Title: Summertime
Studio: Iwerks
Date: 06/15/35
Credits:
Produced by
UB IWERKS
Musical Score by
Carl Stalling
Series: ComiColor
Running time (of viewed version): 1:05:20-1:13:18: 7:58
Commercial DVD Availability: CTTFUICv1, B

Synopsis: Summer and Winter fight it out for supremacy. I suspect Winter's time will come again.

Comments: Blue winter demon. And a snow covered sun. Sun is hulking out. Snow man with a death march, revealing a demon faun. This is similar in many ways to the Lantz "Springtime Serenade" that came out about three weeks earlier. Sexy tree women silhouettes; dryads, I suppose. Centaur polo. A possible specific caricature on one of the centaurs; famous polo player? Ground hog reference, but no shadow issue. Wrongly named; the telegraph says it's springtime. There's the shadow reference. The Can Can plays. DId the fireflies actually go kamikaze? Actually a decent cartoon, if not spectacular. In some ways, it feels like a more effective (and less affected) Fantasia. I kind of wonder if C.S. Lewis based the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe on this cartoon...