And to Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street (1944)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Director:

George Pal

Writer:

Dr. Seuss (book)

Release Date:

28 July 1944 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Short

Plot Keywords:

Street In Title | Claymation | Puppetoons | Stop Motion | Place Name In Title

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar.

Cast

Gary Gray

...

The boy

Runtime:

10 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Movie Connections:

Edited into In Search of Dr. Seuss (1994) (TV)

Pal Deserves Better DVD Representation

Unfortunately, the only place this classic, Academy-Award-nominated short can be seen at all is that it is excerpted - in short snippets - in the "In Search of Dr. Seuss" video.

While Arnold Leibovit's excellent "The Puppetoon Movie" has many of Pal's greatest Puppetoon/"Madcap Models" shorts - and the extended version DVD has a dozen additional shorts(!) - the Dr. Seuss shorts are sadly lacking. I, and indeed many animation aficionados, would LOVE to eventually see "The Complete Puppetoons" in a DVD collection. (The auspices of a "complete" collection might be the only way to get many of the "Jasper" shorts out there as they tend to be controversial - though if Disney can present complete collections as part of their "Disney Treasures" and apologize for potentially offensive material with a little disclaimer from Leonard Maltin, I'm sure the same could be done on George Pal's behalf.)