This early Columbia Color cartoon was directed by Ben Harrison and Manny Gould, who spent most of their career in the 1920s and 1930s producing Krazy Kat cartoons, nominally based on the George Herriman strip. This one, however, is a one-ff in which children sail their toy boats around a pond and imagine getting into a sea battle with them.
Like many of the early color efforts from Charles Mintz' cartoon factory, it's far too sentimental for my taste. The color work is not particularly good. While the background art is nicely tinted in a watercolor style, the characters are painted in a very simple manner, with large, undifferented areas of a single color and density.
Like many a cartoon of this period, it has a "celebrity review" segment. The sailors aboard the toy boats are depicted as movie stars of the era. They include Charles Laughton, W.C. Fields, Jimmy Durante, Laurel & Hardy, the Marx brothers, Bing Crosby, George Arliss, and Joe E. Brown.
Like many of the early color efforts from Charles Mintz' cartoon factory, it's far too sentimental for my taste. The color work is not particularly good. While the background art is nicely tinted in a watercolor style, the characters are painted in a very simple manner, with large, undifferented areas of a single color and density.
Like many a cartoon of this period, it has a "celebrity review" segment. The sailors aboard the toy boats are depicted as movie stars of the era. They include Charles Laughton, W.C. Fields, Jimmy Durante, Laurel & Hardy, the Marx brothers, Bing Crosby, George Arliss, and Joe E. Brown.