MOVIE: Mother Goose Stories (1946) Harryhausen

Some retro fun from Ray Harryhausen

Mother Goose steps out of the nursery rhyme book and brings to life some of the favorite characters of Mother Goose Land, including Little Miss Muffet, Old Mother Hubbard, Queen of Hearts, and Humpty Dumpty. Animated puppets are used throughout.
After World War Two, Ray Harryhausen acquired millions of feet of unused Army film stock and made, among other things, this Mother Goose story puppetoon. He then went on to fame and fortune in Hollywood using these techniques in special effects on "The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad", "Jason and the Argonauts", "One Million Years BC" and many other films.

For the time (1946), "Mother Goose Stories" is innovative and high quality. He manages to capture life-like motion that other animators couldn't. Every film buff/historian should see this. It has a music track without dialog, displaying the Mother Goose rhymes on title cards like an old silent film.
Director: Harryhausen (Ray)
Producer: Harryhausen (Ray)
Production Company: Harryhausen (Ray)
Audio/Visual: sound, color

This is available at the Archive (public domain) - dvd quality available

9minutes 30 sec

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