| Land of the Midnight Fun | |
| Story: | Melvin Millar |
| Animator: | Charles and Robert McKimson |
| Starring: | Mel Blanc Sara Berner Tex Avery |
| Music: | Carl Stalling |
| Producer: | Leon Schlesinger |
| Distributor: | Warner Bros. The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Color Process: | Technicolor |
| Language: | English |
Land of the Midnight Fun is a 1939 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon supervised by Tex Avery (credited as "Fred Avery").[1] The short was released on September 23, 1939.[2]
A cruise to Nome, Alaska, starts with various cruise ship jokes: the ship pulls out of the harbor like a car, raising anchor also raises the front of the boat, the ship follows the coast by curving around it. On arrival, we see some local scenes: A penguin eats two fish, then is eaten by the third; the dogs of a dog sled stop (behind an iceberg) at a telephone pole; a timber wolf goes around shouting "Timber!" (even the wolf admits, "Gee, this is silly!"); two Eskimos rub noses: in preparation, the woman applies lipstick to her nose. Finally, an Eskimo nightclub (after all, the nights are six months long) features a rotoscoped ice skater. The ship leaves, and gets caught in the fog near New York City; when the fog clears, we see the ship is perched atop the World's Fair Trylon.