| 词条 | Speaking of the Weather |
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| name = Speaking of the Weather | image = Speaking of the Weather title card.png | director = Frank Tashlin | story = Treg Brown{{citation needed|reason=can't find any sources to support this, www.bcdb.com lists story by Ben Harrison, but can't find any support for that either|date=June 2016}} | animator = Credited: Joe D'Igalo Volney White Uncredited: Nelson Demorest Art Loomer | starring = Both uncredited: Mel Blanc (Hugh Herbert, Conductor, Cholly Jam, Walter Snitchall and dog) Billy Bletcher (Public Enemy #1, and The Judge) | music = Carl W. Stalling | producer = Leon Schlesinger | distributor = Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation | released = September 4, 1937 | color_process = Technicolor | runtime = 7 minutes 24 seconds | language = English }} Speaking of the Weather is an animated cartoon short in the Merrie Melodies series produced by Leon Schlesinger for Warner Bros.. Released to theaters on September 4, 1937, it was directed by Frank Tashlin and animated by Joe D'Igalo and Volney White. It was reissued into the "Blue Ribbon Classics" series in January 1945. The film centers around literary figures coming to life — a basic theme that Tashlin would later use in the subsequent shorts Have You Got Any Castles? and You're an Education, both released in 1938. Collectively, the films are commonly referred to as the "Tashlin Three." PlotIn a closed drugstore at midnight, the characters from all of the books and magazines are coming to life. At the beginning of the film, "Bob Boins" (Bob Burns) introduces Ted Lewis (who according to Boins was once called "Uncle Fudd" back at Van Beuren) who is seen playing Plenty of Money and You, which segues into a caricature of orchestra conductor Leopold Stokowski leading the Storm movement from the William Tell Overture. After this, the title song is sung by a girl trio caricaturing the Boswell Sisters on the cover of Radioland magazine; all the while, Hugh Herbert is seen repeatedly smiling and adjusting his necktie. A bullish criminal on the cover of The Gang Magazine, distracted at the sound of the sisters' performance, sneaks about and decides to use a blowtorch from the cover of Popular Mechanics to break into a safe on the cover of The Magazine of Wall Street. He is discovered by detective "Cholly Jam" (Charlie Chan), and after explaining himself to the police on the cover of True Confessions, he is tried, and sentenced to Life. However, he decides to escape through the cover of Liberty; but his escape does not go unnoticed when he is reported by the columnist and radio personality Walter Winchell (here caricatured as "Walter Snitchall"), which then leads to a wide variety of characters, including police officers, Boy Scouts, Tarzan, wild animals, and native Zulu tribesmen, joining the chase. The Thin Man (a caricature of William Powell, who received an Academy Award nomination for playing the role) uses Asta from the cover of Dog World to detect the criminal on the cover of Better Babies, and the criminal gives chase on the carriage, only to be assailed by everyone from Navy battleships to Greta Garbo and even Saint Nicholas. He ultimately ends up imprisoned in the bars on the cover of Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing, and when Herbert laughs, the criminal uses a globe from the cover of a World Almanac to hit him in the head. At iris-out, it turns out he has stolen Herbert's laugh himself. Availability
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References1. ^https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029595/trivia "Speaking of the Weather: Did You Know?" at the Internet Movie Database 2. ^http://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-s.aspx External links
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