Land of the Midnight Fun
| Land of the Midnight Fun | |
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| Directed by | Tex Avery |
| Story by | Melvin Millar |
| Produced by | Leon Schlesinger |
| Starring | Mel Blanc Sara Berner Tex Avery |
| Music by | Carl Stalling |
| Animation by | Charles and Robert McKimson |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
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Running time | 8:02 |
| Language | English |
Land of the Midnight Fun is a 1939 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon supervised by Tex Avery (credited as "Fred Avery").[2] The short was released as early as September 14, 1939.[1]
Plot
A cruise to Nome, Alaska, starts with various cruise ship jokes: the ship pulls out of the harbor like a car, raising anchor also raises the front of the boat, the ship follows the coast by curving around it. On arrival, we see some local scenes: A penguin eats two fish, then is eaten by the third; the dogs of a dog sled stop (behind an iceberg) at a telephone pole; a timber wolf goes around shouting "Timber!" (even the wolf admits, "Gee, this is silly!"); two Eskimos rub noses: in preparation, the woman applies lipstick to her nose. Finally, an Eskimo nightclub (after all, the nights are six months long) features a rotoscoped ice skater. The ship leaves, and gets caught in the fog near New York City; when the fog clears, we see the ship is perched atop the World's Fair Trylon.
Home media
- LaserDisc – The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Volume 4, Side 7
- DVD – Allegheny Uprising (USA 1995 Turner print included as a bonus)
References
- ^ a b "Land of the Midnight Fun - Earliest Known Date". The Montclair Times. September 15, 1939. p. 5. Retrieved November 15, 2025.
- ^ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 93. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.