Granite Hotel Explained

Granite Hotel is a 1940 American animated short film directed by Dave Fleischer.^[1] Released in April of that year, it was the fourth in the Stone Age Cartoons series.^{[2] [3]} The film is now in public domain.^[4]

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.^[5]

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

1. Book: Lenburg . Jeff . The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons . 1999 . Checkmark Books . 0-8160-3831-7 . 139.
2. Graham Webb. The animated film encyclopedia: a complete guide to American shorts, features and sequences 1900-1979, p198., . McFarland, 2000.
3. Book: Motion picture herald, Volume 139, Issues 1-6. 1940. Quigley Pub. Co..
4. Web site: staff. Fleischer. retrofilmvault. March 16, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20111208224325/http://retrofilmvault.com/publicdomaincartoons/index.html. December 8, 2011. dead.
5. José Luis Sanz. Starring T. rex!: Dinosaur Mythology and Popular Culture, p31., . Indiana University Press, 2002.