All's Fair at the Fair explained

All's Fair at the Fair
Director:Dave Fleischer
Producer:Max Fleischer
Starring:Jack Mercer (uncredited)
Margie Hines (uncredited)
Music:Edward Heyman
Sammy Timberg
Studio:Fleischer Studios
Distributor:Paramount Pictures
Country:United States
Language:English

All's Fair at the Fair is a seven-minute cartoon released in 1938. A Color Classic produced by Max Fleischer, it was distributed by Paramount as a promotion for the 1939 New York World's Fair.[1] [2]

Reception

The Film Daily called the short a "novelty cartoon" and gave the following review:[3]

A couple of sticks visit the fair grounds where the World's Fair is being held, and find themselves participating in a series of adventures with the ultra-modern mechanism operated by robots. Finally, they reach the dance pavilion, and the wife and husband each are taken in hand by robots and whirled around the floor. Other mechanical gags give them a marvelous meal, beauty and barber treatments, and clinical attention to restore their youth. Very clever and novel. A Max Fleischer cartoon in Technicolor.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Lenburg . Jeff . The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons . 1999 . Checkmark Books . 0-8160-3831-7 . 6 June 2020 . 66–67.
  2. Book: Meet Me at the Fair: A World's Fair Reader . . 2014 . 978-1-3121-15-873 . Hollengreen . Laura Holden . 464 . 891325193 . Pearce . Celia . Schweizer . Bobby.
  3. "Reviews of the New Films". The Film Daily. September 2, 1938. Vol. 74, no. 54. p. 8.