The Sunshine Makers (1935 film)

The Sunshine Makers is a 1935 animated short film directed by Burt Gillett and Ted Eshbaugh, reissued and sponsored by the food and beverage producer Borden in 1940.[1][2] It was originally released as a part of the Rainbow Parade series, produced by Van Beuren Studios.[3]

The Sunshine Makers
Directed byBurt Gillett and Ted Eshbaugh (both credited on the original issue)
Produced byAmadee J. Van Beuren
Music byWinston Sharples
Animation byCharacter animation by
Pete Burness
Thomas Goodman
Isadore Klein
Bill Littlejohn
Hicks Lokey
Jack Zander
with character assistance from
Lou Appet and Bill Carney
(all uncredited)
Layouts byCharacter ink and paint by
Sadie Bodin and Phil Klein (both uncredited)
Backgrounds byBackground art by
Art Bartsch (uncredited)
Color processIn:
Cinecolor (two-strip, credited on the original issue)
Production
company
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Borden
Release date
January 11, 1935

Plot

Five red-dressed cheerful gnomes come out of their houses singing a song praising the Sun while marching up the hill. They go inside and bottle sunlight into a special milk. One of the gnomes rides a cart pulled by a cricket and sings a song and puts the bottles by the door and takes the scroll. A grumpy blue-dressed top-hat-wearing goblin shoots the hat off the gnome with a bow and arrow and the hat flies to a tree. Another arrow flies over the gnome's head, and the gnome throws a bottle at the goblin, who ends up having sunshine on his back and runs back home to the goblin swamp.

At the dark swamp, a small group of goblins sing a gloomy song "We're happy when we're sad. We're always feeling sad." An owl alerts the goblins of the incoming danger of sunlight and the goblins run into their houses. The afflicted goblin buries his shirt in the ground and bangs on a gong. The goblins get sprayers to erase the sunshine's power outside the swamp with toxins. One of the gnomes toots a horn and the rest of the gnomes use bottles to shoot them through a cannon at the goblins. The milk bottles fly everywhere, a vulture turns into a jay, and the goblins run to their houses. The gnomes on dragonflies drop bottles and make a fountain of water that brightens up the goblins' swamp. The gnomes struggle to get the goblins into the fountain, with one protesting "I don't wanna be happy. I wanna be sad." The goblins drinks its milk and the gnomes and now-happy goblins start singing together.[4]

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References
  1. BCDB
  2. Thunderbean Roundup: Van Beuren Studio Cartoons and Other Strange and Commercial Rarities – Animated Views
  3. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 127–128. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7.
  4. “Christmas Flickers” pre-order – and “The Sunshine Makers” in HD!|Cartoon Research


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