The Captain and the Kids is a series of animated shorts based off the renowned comic strip of the same name. It was the first series of cartoons produced at the MGM cartoon studio. The first short, Cleaning House, was released on February 19, 1938.
Fred Quimby offered Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies director Friz Freleng "almost double" the pay he was receiving at Leon Schlesinger's studio. Freleng took the offer and was assigned to helm the Captain and the Kids series, which he "balked at" the idea of working on. Freleng later recounted to Mark Mayerson that "MGM was dedicated to making good cartoons, and they thought that this was being printed in so many papers would make it a popular cartoon. I was forced to prove them wrong."[1]
Shorts[]
1938[]
- Blue Monday (February 5)[2]
- Cleaning House (February 19)
- Poultry Pirates (April 16)
- Sinkin in the Rain (May 20)
- The Captain's Pup (April 30)
- A Day at the Beach (June 25)
- What a Lion! (July 16)
- The Pygmy Hunt (August 6)
- Old Smokey (September 3)
- Buried Treasure (September 17)
- The Winning Ticket (October 1)
- Hounduras Hurricane (October 15)
- The Captain's Christmas (December 17) (Technicolor)
1939[]
- Petunia Natural Park (January 14) (Technicolor)
- Seal Skinners (January 28)
- Mama's New Hat (February 11)
Gallery[]
Promotional material[]
The characters featured on a movies section in The Star Press of Muncie Indiana on April 24, 1938. The showing is their first cartoon, Cleaning House.
The Captain and the Kids on a movies section in the Sand Springs Leader of Tulsa, Oklahoma on April 28, 1938.
TV press photo
Behind the scenes[]
References[]
- ↑ Maltin, Leonard. Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons: Revised and Updated Edition
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/motionpictureher130unse/page/96/mode/1up