Anyone who looks at this 1935 black-and-white Terrytoon is going to compare it to RED HOT RIDING HOOD and sneer at this movie for not being Tex Avery's masterpiece. They would be wrong. Paul Terry was not Avery, nor did he have access to color.
What you do have is a fine, off-kilter handling of the matter from the viewpoint of a modern wolf being played by a couple of dames; Red is a jazz-age baby who takes the wolf's flowers and candy and locks the door. If the overt sexuality is absent, if Red here suggests Shirley Temple and not some Film Noir chanteuse, the intended audience for this cartoon was a kiddy matinée.
I'm not a great fan of Terrytoons, but this one is fine. Character design and animation is livelier than it had ever been and within five years, with color added, would be the standard for the studio.
What you do have is a fine, off-kilter handling of the matter from the viewpoint of a modern wolf being played by a couple of dames; Red is a jazz-age baby who takes the wolf's flowers and candy and locks the door. If the overt sexuality is absent, if Red here suggests Shirley Temple and not some Film Noir chanteuse, the intended audience for this cartoon was a kiddy matinée.
I'm not a great fan of Terrytoons, but this one is fine. Character design and animation is livelier than it had ever been and within five years, with color added, would be the standard for the studio.