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Wikipedia article




'Granite Hotel' is a 1940 American animated short film directed by Dave Fleischer. Released in April of that year, it was the fourth in the 'Stone Age Cartoons' series.Graham Webb. 'The animated film encyclopedia: a complete guide to American shorts, features and sequences 1900-1979', p198. , . McFarland, 2000. The film is now in public domain.

Plot summary



Set in a modern stone-age time, the viewer is presented to a gallery of characters like a telephone operator, the ventriloquist "Edgar Burgundy" and his doll "Charlie Bacardi" (a play on Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy) and a barber. A guest in need of a chess player calls the fire department who arrives riding a sauropod.Jos Luis Sanz. 'Starring T. rex!: Dinosaur Mythology and Popular Culture', p31. , . Indiana University Press, 2002.

Cast



*Jack Mercer

Characters

*Newsboy

*Hotel Clerk

*Charlie Bacardi

*Monkey's Uncle

*Bejeweled Guest

*Barbered Guest

*Cold Guest

*Checker Player

*Bathing Guest

*Telephone Operator

References






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