Swing, Monkey, Swing!
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Swing, Monkey, Swing! |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1937 |
| length | 7:43 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ben Harrison |
| script | Ben Harrison |
| production | Charles Mintz |
| music | Joe de Nat |
| occupation | |
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Swing Monkey, Swing! was a cartoon from Columbia Pictures released in 1937.
background
Producer of the approximately seven-minute color film Swing Monkey, Swing! in the Technicolor process was Charles Mintz ; the script was by Ben Harrison , the animation by Manny Gould, and the score by Joe de Nat (probably a pseudonym ). The animated and musical presentation (which shows singing and dancing monkeys) caricatures jazz greats of the time such as Cab Calloway , Ted Lewis and Bessie Smith . For the film music with the singing of the Basin Street Boys was u. a. the St. Louis Blues used by toilet cell phones ; the music also makes reference to Louis Armstrong's version of the classic " St. James Infirmary ".
Web links
- Swing, Monkey, Swing! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Entry (Library of Congress)
Individual evidence
- ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [C] Group 3. Dramatic Composition . 1937
- ^ Clifford McCarty: Film Composers in America: A Filmography, 1911-1970 . Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, p. 508
- ↑ Swing, Monkey, Swing! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ Guido Michelone, Giuseppe Valenzise : Bibidi bobidi bu: la musica nei cartoni animati da Betty Boop a Peter Gabriel . Castelvecchi, 1998, p. 45