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Rating: 7 stars

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cartoon short film chevrolet

All movies seen on 04/27/2025

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The Princess and the Pauper (1939)

Directed by Max Fleischer

Animation | Ephemeral | Short

Overview

Slobbish magician Ali Kazam tries to win the princess’ hand in marriage by producing a large quantity of jewels, but is challenged by a youth (our Hero) who only has a yo-yo, a sling shot, a few marbles, and a small pocket knife. Our hero is helped by Nicky Nome.

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Sunday morning cartoon: a Jam Handy production for General Motors in which these cartoons were created for dealership showrooms to entertain children while their parents purchased a new car. This one is promoting a Chevrolet.

The animation is great and has nothing to do with the car until one shows up at the end. This is exactly the sort of cartoon I was hoping these old DVDs would have, an ephemeral piece of history that no longer is a thing today.

It’s unfortunate there’s no credits listed on IMDb bc the voice acting is good and the direction is great.

Looks like Max Fleischer directed this since he directed the others in this series. From Wikipedia: Between 1936 and 1938, the Jam Handy Organization made a series of six animated fantasy sales films for Chevrolet featuring a gnome named Nicky Nome, which showed new Chevrolet automobiles saving the day from villains, often in retellings of classic tales such as Cinderella, the subject of two of those films, A Coach for Cinderella and A Ride for Cinderella. The other films were Nicky Rides Again, Peg-Leg Pedro, The Princess and the Pauper, and One Bad Knight.

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