The Cobweb Hotel
| The Cobweb Hotel | |
|---|---|
 Title card | |
| Directed by | Dave Fleischer |
| Story by | William Turner (uncredited)[1] |
| Produced by | Max Fleischer |
| Starring | Jack Mercer (uncredited) |
| Music by | Sammy Timberg Bob Rothberg |
| Animation by | David Tendlar William Sturm Nicholas Tafuri (unc.) Eli Brucker (unc.) Joe Oriolo (unc.) Graham Place (unc.)[1] |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 8 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Cobweb Hotel is a 1936 American short film directed by Dave Fleischer and Max Fleischer and is one of the short films that belongs to the Color Classics film series. Animated by David Tendlar and William Sturm,[2] the setting is said to be one of the Fleischer's desks, which the spider used to open the hoax hotel.[3]
Plot
[edit]The cartoon starts off with a devious spider (voiced by Jack Mercer) who holds many fly captives in the rooms of "The Cobweb Hotel" and sees a newly married couple of flies booking a room into the fake hotel. After they discover the trap, the female fly gets ensnared in one of the spider's webs, and the male fly fights with the spider being a "flyweight champion", but he too becomes stuck in a web during the match.
Meanwhile, his wife wriggles herself free from the web and gives freedom to all the captives, who torment the spider by flicking several sharp pen heads and firing many aspirin pills at the spider. After paying revenge to the spider, the couple hold another wedding ceremony, followed by the other captives of the hotel, until the ending scene rolls in.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Fleischer's Animated News. May 1936.
- ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 66–67. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
- ^ "The Cobweb Hotel (1936) - The Internet Animation Database". www.intanibase.com. Retrieved August 4, 2018.
- 1936 films
- 1930s English-language films
- 1930s American animated films
- 1930s color films
- Paramount Pictures short films
- Fleischer Studios short films
- Color Classics cartoons
- Films set in hotels
- American comedy short films
- American animated short films
- Short films directed by Dave Fleischer
- Films about spiders
- Animated films about flies
- English-language short films
- 1936 animated short films