Crazy House (1940 film)

Crazy House
Crazy House
Directed by	Walter Lantz (uncredited)
Story by	Victor McLeod (uncredited)
Produced by	Walter Lantz
Starring	Sara Berner; Arthur Q. Bryan; Danny Webb; Walter Lantz (all uncredited)
Music by	Frank Marsales (uncredited)
Animation by	Alex Lovy; Laverne Harding; Les Kline; George Dane; Ray Fahringer; Frank Tipper (all uncredited)
Backgrounds by	Ed Kiechle (uncredited)
Color process	Technicolor
Production; company	Walter Lantz Productions
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	September 23, 1940;
Running time	9 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Crazy House is the fourth Andy Panda cartoon produced by Walter Lantz and probably directed by Alex Lovy (as speculated by historians such as Michael Barrier) or by Lantz himself (as he claimed himself). The cartoon was released on September 23, 1940.

Plot[]

Andy and his father seek shelter from a flood in an abandoned building, which in reality is a fun house, filled with such things as hidden practical jokes, a noisy merry-go-round and a dancing floor.

Notes[]

The cartoon is recognized as Lantz's first fully independent film. In early 1940, Universal Pictures, which was facing severe financial problems, decided to cut Lantz's weekly advance, forcing the producer to shut down the studio for a while. Crazy House was produced during the closure, as Lantz managed to gain full rights to the studio's characters in case Universal had been unable to keep distributing the cartoons.^[1]

References[]

^ Cooke, Jon, Komorowski, Thad, Shakarian, Pietro, and Tatay, Jack. "1940 Archived 2008-07-23 at the Wayback Machine". The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia

External links[]

Crazy House at IMDb

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[1] Cooke, Jon, Komorowski, Thad, Shakarian, Pietro, and Tatay, Jack. "1940 Archived 2008-07-23 at the Wayback Machine". The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia

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