Casper The Friendly Ghost helps the ghost of Franz Schubert finish the Unfinished Symphony (#8, for those of you who care about such things).
I can't award this is a particularly high mark, because watching eighty-four Casper cartoons in which everyone is scared of him until he saves the day, whereupon they love him, have basically made me unable to appreciate a good one. It's what I call 'the useful idiot plot', and was popular in 1930s cartoons, and I despise it. Nonetheless, this one has some good points, like taking advantage of the late-cartoon short budgets to use simple, post-Bauhaus architectural design for the "Museum of Music" exterior.
Mostly, though, it's a treat for long-time Fleischer and Famous Studios composer Winston Sharples, who gets to drive the plot for a change.
I can't award this is a particularly high mark, because watching eighty-four Casper cartoons in which everyone is scared of him until he saves the day, whereupon they love him, have basically made me unable to appreciate a good one. It's what I call 'the useful idiot plot', and was popular in 1930s cartoons, and I despise it. Nonetheless, this one has some good points, like taking advantage of the late-cartoon short budgets to use simple, post-Bauhaus architectural design for the "Museum of Music" exterior.
Mostly, though, it's a treat for long-time Fleischer and Famous Studios composer Winston Sharples, who gets to drive the plot for a change.