Granite Hotel

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Granite Hotel is a 1940 American animated short film directed by Dave Fleischer.[1] Released in April of that year, it was the fourth in the Stone Age Cartoons series.[2][3] The film is now in public domain.[4]

Plot summary

Set in a modern stone-age time, the viewer is presented to a gallery of characters like a telephone operator, the ventriloquist "Edgar Burgundy" and his doll "Charlie Bacardi" (a play on Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy) and a barber. A guest in need of a chess player calls the fire department who arrives riding a sauropod.[5]

Cast

Characters

  • Newsboy
  • Hotel Clerk
  • Charlie Bacardi
  • Monkey's Uncle
  • Bejeweled Guest
  • Barbered Guest
  • Cold Guest
  • Checker Player
  • Bathing Guest
  • Telephone Operator

References

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  2. Graham Webb. The animated film encyclopedia: a complete guide to American shorts, features and sequences 1900-1979, p198. Template:ISBN, Template:ISBN. McFarland, 2000.
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  5. José Luis Sanz. Starring T. rex!: Dinosaur Mythology and Popular Culture, p31. Template:ISBN, Template:ISBN. Indiana University Press, 2002.

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