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You're an Education is a 1938 Merrie Melodies short directed by Frank Tashlin.

Plot[]

The brochures in a travel agency spring to life.

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  • According to the book Frank Tashlin by Roger Garcia, "several shots (including a caricature of Hugh Herbert) totaling 67 feet (approx. 45 seconds) were removed for this film's 'Blue Ribbon Special' reissue in 1946." The bulk of these cuts appears to take place during the montage sequence featuring brochures of various world destinations accompanied by a song germane to that place. Some of the brochures are bridged with dissolves, others with fade-outs. Some of the fade-outs, however, appear to allude to evident edits. Another apparent edit occurs during the "Yuba Plays the Tuba" sequence in which a shot of a Native American fish abruptly fades to black and quickly fades into Lawrence Tibbett in Tibet.[2] The original 1938 version of the short is reported to exist in the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
  • This short rarely airs on American television due to racial and ethnic stereotypes. The cartoon aired on an episode of ToonHeads called "Midnight at the Bookstore", which centered on cartoons where objects come to life. In reruns, it was replaced with an unofficial redrawn colorized version of "I Like Mountain Music".

Notes[]

  • This was Frank Tashlin's last short film with Warner Bros. during his first stint at the studio until 1938 (and thus his last directed short in his previous unit that would later be taken over by Chuck Jones); he left the studio to become a gag writer with Disney, then moved to Screen Gems to direct. He would return to the studio in 1942.
  • This is the final cartoon in the Merrie Melodies series which Frank Tashlin received onscreen credit. Seven years later, he would be credited one last time in "The Unruly Hare".
  • This is the third and final entry in Tashlin's Books-Come-to-Life trilogy, released in 1937–1938.
  • This was the first short to use the newer Merrie Melodies outro until April 1941.
  • Although the short did avoid any mentions of Germany at the time, an early gag during the opening montage does mention Vienna; which by the time of the short had been released was under German control due to the Anschluss unifying Germany and Austria.

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  1. ↑ Catalog of Copyright Entries
  2. ↑ https://www.patreon.com/posts/56317664



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