Cocktails For Two

Mark, David, Xeni and Cory have all gone home and they left me the keys to the house! Let's have a cartoon party this weekend! Whattaya say?

Update: Commenter, mneptok points us to a great appetizer to wet your whistle for tomorrow's cartoon show... See it after the jump.

This great cartoon was directed by Jack Kinney, who directed many of the Goofy and Donald Duck cartoons of the 1940s and 50s. It won an Academy Award for Disney in 1942 and ushered in a string of entertainment propaganda and training films for the war effort. The song was covered by Spike Jones and his City Slickers and became a huge hit. "Der Fuhrer's Face" (1942) is available on the Walt Disney Treasures: On The Front Lines DVD collection.

Click on the images below to read more about Disney's WWII cartoons at the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive...

• [geech]

  That fantastic Cocktails for Two is like watching a coupe of Basil Wolverton caricatures come to life!

• [pato pal ur]

  Wonderful… I’ve loved Spike Jones since learning about him from the Dr. Demento Show as a teen, but I’d never seen that fantastic video of Cocktails for Two (which incidentally was celebrating the end of Prohibition, in case it wasn’t obvious). Also I never knew that Disney originated Der Fuhrer’s Face. Thanks for this!

• [dole]

  LET THE CARTOON……. BEGIN!!!!

• [ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive]

  Go to the store and get lots of beer and hot dogs and be here tomorrow afternoon. I’m gonna pull out the old projector and share screen of the cartoon treasures from the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive. We’ll party till we drop. CARTOON FUN TIME!

• [shanespeal]

  Woo hoo!!! I’ll be here, hangin’ with Owl Jolsen, waiting for all your cartoon goodness. We love-a to singa!

• [Robbo]

  As a kid, I and my siblings used to endlessly play our Dad’s 78′s – Inkspots, Mills Brothers, Bing Crosby – but the favourite was always Spike Jones an this one especially. Little kids stumbling around the house dancing like insane drunks and singing along. Sweet mayhem. Thanks for bring ing that back to me.

  Cheers.

• [Rob Thornton]

  BEETLEBAUM!

  • [Zaren]

    NYERRRRRRROWWWW! A P-38, how’d that get in the race?!?

    There was a library where I used to live that had a Spike Jones greatest hits record, and I’d check that out every few months and listen to it over and over. If you have any more of their “videos”, I’ll be here.

• [lectroid]

  6 words:

  Saint James Infirmary

  Minnie the Moocher

• [Boba Fett Diop]

  Vhen der Fuhrer says ve ist der master race, ve Heil! *flibbrtz* Heil! *flibbrtz* right in der Fuhrer’s face…

• [mneptok]

  And for those that don’t get Boba’s reference, here you go.

• [CANTFIGHTTHEDITE]

  As a representative for a more recent generation, I hereby nominate Transformers and Voltron. And how about some Gobots goodness?

• [franko]

  that “cocktails for two” video may be the greatest thing i’ve ever see on Bb, ever.

• [klg19]

  Holy camoly, @mneptok: I don’t remember seeing THAT one on those Wonderful World of Disney anthology shows….

• [Boba Fett Diop]

  And pulling up the rear…is the Beetle Bomb.