"You're an Education" is a nice Warner Bros. musical cartoon that deals with the adventures of traveling. The various characters on the covers of the numerous travel brochures suddenly come to life, singing, dancing, and playing instruments (after spending many hours undoubtedly in boredom from being absolutely still).
Here are my personal favorite "coming-to-life" gags and snatches of song from "You're an Education." The first brochure we see shows a distant castle in Alsace Lorraine, hence we hear a snippet of "Have You Got Any Castles, Baby?" The first six words of the popular song "Avalon" accompany a group of (literally) flying fish advertising Avalon Bay. A leprechaun suddenly sings and dances to the jazzy "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen." "Volga Boatman" accompanies a group of Russians who suddenly burst into a silly kick dance. A heavyset tuxedo-clad Cuban plays a song on the sousaphone titled "When Yuba Plays the Rumba on His Tuba" (and it so happens that I play the tuba as well), followed by a trio of portly African-American women singing not only "When Yuba Plays the Rumba" but also "Lady in Red."
"You're an Education" is one of a series of cartoons in which characters on books, magazines, brochures, etc., come to life. Frank Tashlin, who directed this film, directed a couple other cartoons of this genre, but perhaps the most famous of all the "coming-to-life" cartoons is the superlative "Book Revue" (1946), directed by Bob Clampett.
Here are my personal favorite "coming-to-life" gags and snatches of song from "You're an Education." The first brochure we see shows a distant castle in Alsace Lorraine, hence we hear a snippet of "Have You Got Any Castles, Baby?" The first six words of the popular song "Avalon" accompany a group of (literally) flying fish advertising Avalon Bay. A leprechaun suddenly sings and dances to the jazzy "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen." "Volga Boatman" accompanies a group of Russians who suddenly burst into a silly kick dance. A heavyset tuxedo-clad Cuban plays a song on the sousaphone titled "When Yuba Plays the Rumba on His Tuba" (and it so happens that I play the tuba as well), followed by a trio of portly African-American women singing not only "When Yuba Plays the Rumba" but also "Lady in Red."
"You're an Education" is one of a series of cartoons in which characters on books, magazines, brochures, etc., come to life. Frank Tashlin, who directed this film, directed a couple other cartoons of this genre, but perhaps the most famous of all the "coming-to-life" cartoons is the superlative "Book Revue" (1946), directed by Bob Clampett.