skippercollecto
April 13th, 2006, 06:49 PM
In the late 60s/early 70s I remember seeing two cartoons on TV which I've never seen since. I am assuming they were Warner Brothers 15-minute shorts, although they weren't of the Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck variety.
One of them was, I believe, about a flea circus. There was violin music playing in the background. Something terrible happened to the fleas and they were trapped. At the end of the cartoon, the story switches over to "live action" (for want of a better term). It turns out that it was a bad dream of Jack Benny's and he woke up in his easy chair and was obviously frightened. The violin music was of him playing.
The second cartoon was about a stork that delivered two babies to the wrong houses. He delivered a giant's baby to a human family and the human baby to the giant family. I remember the giant toddler walking around destroying everything in the human house while the poor daddy giant struggled to put a diaper on the tiny baby.
I've looked at a few reference sites and books about Warner Brothers but can't find anything resembling these two stories. Do either of these sound familiar to any of you? These have been haunting me for almost 40 years!
Mary
One of them was, I believe, about a flea circus. There was violin music playing in the background. Something terrible happened to the fleas and they were trapped. At the end of the cartoon, the story switches over to "live action" (for want of a better term). It turns out that it was a bad dream of Jack Benny's and he woke up in his easy chair and was obviously frightened. The violin music was of him playing.
The second cartoon was about a stork that delivered two babies to the wrong houses. He delivered a giant's baby to a human family and the human baby to the giant family. I remember the giant toddler walking around destroying everything in the human house while the poor daddy giant struggled to put a diaper on the tiny baby.
I've looked at a few reference sites and books about Warner Brothers but can't find anything resembling these two stories. Do either of these sound familiar to any of you? These have been haunting me for almost 40 years!
Mary