The Museum (1930) [N/A]
Written by:
Arthur Davis
Dick Huemer
Sid Marcus
Directed by:
Arthur Davis, Dick Huemer, Sid Marcus
Release Date:
August 19, 1930
Original Title:
The Museum
Alternate Titles:
Toby the Pup at The Museum
Genres:
Animation
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 7
Toby the Pup, The Museum is only one of twelve cartoons produced and only seven still survive today. Created by animators Sid Marcus, Dick Huemer, and Art Davis. This cartoon is basically about a little dog who is a rather bad and cheeky museum cleaner. Not surprisingly, his boss is very impatient with him and urges him to keep cleaning. As the cleaner cleans, some of the things in the museum come to life.
Toby is the night janitor at a museum, and he polishes and cleans all the statues. The latter come to life, of course, and the results can be humorous. I mean, seeing a dinosaur gargle with mouthwash, Rodin's "The Thinker" doing a Russian dance, etc., is pretty wild.Toby has fun brushing a statues' teeth, or clipping the toenails on another, etc. His mop then turns into a harp and he plays music for them. It's typical early '30 imaginative animation with sights you don't often see.The print is so-so but I am just grateful we are still able to see some of these early animated short. Hey, this one is 77 years old, and was made just around the time sound was introduced to movies.
