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Jolly Little Elves

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Jolly Little Elves
Directed byManuel Moreno
Bill Nolan[1]
Produced byWalter Lantz
StarringBernice Hansen (uncredited)
Music byJames Dietrich (uncredited)
Walter Lantz
Victor McLeod
Animation byLaverne Harding
Lester Kline
Fred Kopietz
Bill Mason
Manuel Moreno
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • October 1, 1934 (1934-10-01)
Running time
8 min.
LanguageEnglish

Jolly Little Elves is a 1934 animated short film by Walter Lantz.[2] The cartoon was nominated at the 7th Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Film.[3] The short was part of Lantz's Cartune Classics series.[4]

Summary

Jolly Little Elves is a retelling of The Elves and the Shoemaker with the elves this time loving to eat donuts and drink coffee.[5]

References

  1. ^ FilmAffinity
  2. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. p. 154. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7.
  3. ^ "The 7th Academy Awards (1935) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved March 28, 2014.
  4. ^ Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. p. 156. ISBN 9781476672939.
  5. ^ Nitrate Shorts I-George Eastman Museum