Mr. Scarecrow is impressed with Jasper's snow-globe, which prompts a tall-tale rags-to-riches-to-rags story: Poor starving Mammy dumps Baby Scarecrow with a greedy miser. Later, he whistles for his supper with a fruit seller. As an adult, our hero makes a "killing" on Wall Street, but lets his company "go to the dogs".
The story is a bit disjointed, but the production values ape anything Walt Disney was doing in 1945 (had he produced "stop-motion" instead of 2D animation). Not surprisingly, the Pal Puppetoons would price themselves out of existence within two years. Available on the excellent DVD "The Puppetoon Movie", the Jasper shorts are rarely screened today due to their dated views of "black culture".
The story is a bit disjointed, but the production values ape anything Walt Disney was doing in 1945 (had he produced "stop-motion" instead of 2D animation). Not surprisingly, the Pal Puppetoons would price themselves out of existence within two years. Available on the excellent DVD "The Puppetoon Movie", the Jasper shorts are rarely screened today due to their dated views of "black culture".