You're an Education

You're An Education
Title card for reissue version, circa 1946.
Directed by	Supervision: Frank Tashlin
Story by	Dave Monahan
Produced by	Leon Schlesinger
Music by	Carl W. Stalling
Animation by	Robert McKimson
Color process	Technicolor
Production company	Leon Schlesinger Productions
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date	November 5, 1938 (US)
Running time	6:58 (Blue Ribbon reissue)
Language	English

You're An Education is a 1938 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon supervised by Frank Tashlin.^[1] The short was released on November 5, 1938.^[2]

Plot[]

The literary characters spring to life in this "it's-midnight-and-everything-comes-to-life" cartoon, this time from brochures in a travel agency with first a bunch of tableaux, followed by a big song, then a crime story.

Following a spinning globe, the front of the agency store appears, where there are several displays of banners and posters of different countries and one poster/banner for each country and then a song is heard tied to the country or a pun on the name. For example, with a picture of Bombay harbor, exploding bombs are seen. There's a little tour of the world at first, with appropriate songs, which then stray into puns about food. "Food's an Education," which leads to references to Hungary, Turkey, the Sandwich Islands, Hamburg, Chile (chili), Oyster Bay, Twin Forks and Java. The Thief of Bagdad uses the Florida Keys to break into the Kimberly Diamond Mine, and then pawns them with the Pawnee Indians. He is chased by the soldiers and police of different nations, but gets away by forming an "unusual alliance" with the Lone Stranger: "Well, you're not alone now, Beeg Boy!"

References[]

External links[]

• You're an Education at IMDb
• You're an Education at The Big Cartoon DataBase

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