Well, Bless My Soul....It's BOTTLES (1936)

Sorry for the nearly year long absence...I was sidetracked with many other on and off line projects.


Anyway.

Like any animation studio, The early, Harman-Ising (post-Warner Bros.) MGM cartoons experimented with Disney type happy/scary musical thingies come to life.

One such was in their second full release season (1935-1936), "Bottles" (named just that). It's the famous story of a pharmarcist who gets shrunked down by a skeleton (veteran radio/cartoon voice
Martha Wentworth)
right like the following year's "Snow White" (Disney)'s Wicked Witch (post-Queen) and the skeleton in her dungeon combined and then meeting happy bottles, then scary ones.

Apparnetly both produced and directed by Hugh Harman & Rudy Ising, this runs 10-1/2 minutes long and relies generally on a version of the old song "Little Brown Jug"
and an original piece called "Diapies" sung by three baby bottles (Bereneice Hansell in ALL roles). Graham Webb's only semi-reliable 2000 "Animated Film Encyclopedia"
(McFaarlne Press, Jefferson, N.C.) (in terms of some credits) identifies Frank Nelson (who would've been WAY pre-his famous "Yesss!"), Elmore Vincent (presumably as our hero) and some others.

Aforementioned Miss Wentworth (1889-1974) also recognizably plays Witch.....Hazel. (even then, that name used and it was originally a medicine!)

At the end it's all a dream with the shortest post-wake up come around ending.."Well..BLESS MY SOUL!"(our hero the druggist.)

These 3-color (full color) 30s Technicolor MGM cartoons soon competed with WB (who was going form B&W to CInecolor to 2coilor Tech to 3CTech, which Warners was doing with "I wanna play house" and slowly others following
Disney with "Band Concert" fully were doing..Columbia, and with Looney Tunes, Warner Brothers, ever the penny pincher - with all due respects :D -  continued in B&W, and Paramount./Fleischer was doing this for a while more.)

Scott Bradley put all those songs and music themes together...msuci for druggists to run from...

Hansel? HANSELL??

As the Prince would say in "Bewitched Bunny".

Sorry for the three month wait for a new post, but there will be more.

So you think that you know about the voice of Sniffles, the cherubic WB cartoon mouse, or maybe some MGM squirrells, rabbits, dolls,mice,etc. or
Disney or Lantz cartoon animals. You probaly now have heard of BERNICE HANSEN. You know what the name is...
And she was a nonentity.,.
AND she was a child actresss.. blah blah..

Well...you'd be both right [on the roles EXCEPT Sniffles!] and MOSTLY WRONG...for starters:
Berneice Edna HANSELL [fill in your "Bewitched Bunny"[WB,`1954] quote]
was bkorn 7/11/1897 in Los Angeles, California, died 4/3/1981.
She was a seamstress as as well, and got into more trobule than her cute little animal alter egos ever did.
So you think that you know about the voice of Sniffles, the cherbuic WB cartoon mouse, or maybe some MGM squirrells, rabbits, dolls,mice,etc. or
Disney or Lantz cartoon animals. You probaly now have heard of BERNICE HANSEN. You know what the name is...
And she was a nonentity.,.
AND she was a child actresss.. blah blah..

Well...you'd be both right and MOSTLY WRONG...for starters:
Bernice Edna HANSELL [fill in your "Bewitched Bunny"[WB,`1954] quote]
was bkorn 7/11/1897 in Los Angeles, California, died 4/3/1981.
She was a seamstress as as well, and got into more trobule than her cute little animal alter egos ever did.

<a href=http://tralfaz.blogspot.com">Yowp's second blog</a> has the story.

She was just one of many of theser thirties-mid forties voices [including Sniffles, who lasted till the end of "Porky in a Drum" ending, 1945's "Hush My Mouse"]..and, now, here is the BIG thing..remember at the TOP when I wrote "she was the voice of the cartoon mouse S NIFFLES".?
Well, for ten years it was been mentioned the lamented ANIMATO! that someone else was..in addition to the CORRECT name given and date.. It is that real name BERNICE NAHSELL I plan to use when in reference to her.
As for the  REAL Sniffles, it was revealed and publicised by Keith Scott, Hames Ware and Graham Webb in ANIMATO!`, the 1990s animatiun magazine, that Gay Seabrooke was the voice as I and others have already mentioned, and Sara Berner took over.
As also known, Bernice Hansell retired in 1940 but DID NOT die [see top and Tralfaz Blog by D.M.Yowp]


So who did the other cute child voices in the thirties [and for a while into the WW forties]?

I posted early in this blog's history.

Ironically, didn't work at, at least one L.A. studio..
She was just one of many of theser thirties-mid forties voices [including Sniffles, who lasted till the end of "Porky in a Drum" ending, 1945's "Hush My Mouse"]..and, now, here is the BIG thing..remember at the TOP when I wrote "she was the voice of the cartoon mouse SNIFFLES".?
Well, for ten years it was been mentioned the lamented ANIMATO! that someone else was..in addition to the CORRECT name given and date.. It is that real name BERNICE NAHSELL I plan to use when in reference to her.
As for the  REAL Sniffles, it was revealed and publicised by Keith Scott, Hames Ware and Graham Webb in ANIMATO!`, the 1990s animatiun magazine, that Gay Seabrooke was the voice as I and others  have already mentioned, and Sara Berner took over.

As also known, Berneice Hansell retired in 1940 but DID NOT die [see top and Tralfaz Blog by D.M.Yowp]
So who did the other cute child voices in the thirties [and for a while into the WW forties]?
I posted in the second post on this..