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A Trip to the Moon
Based on the Happy Hooligan comic strip, by Frederick Burr Opper. Happy speaks with someone in the park and takes a trip to the moon on a rocket that looks like the front half of a current racing car, where he is made king of the moon. A ballerina does a shimmy and Our Hero winds up back in the park being accosted by a cop. The inference is that he has fallen asleep and dreamed the entire trip.
| Release : | 1917 |
| Rating : | 5 |
| Studio : | Peter Pan Film Corp., |
| Crew : | Graphic Novel Illustrator, Director, |
| Cast : | |
| Genre : | Animation Comedy Science Fiction |
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In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
The first must-see film of the year.
Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.
By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
Like the other reviewer pointed out, Walter Lantz is identified as the animator on this particular cartoon on YouTube. Happy Hooligan is on a park bench with another person when he gets offered a trip to the moon. Sounds absurd right now, right? Anyway, since this was way before the 1969 trip of those astronauts, Happy goes on a rocket that's shaped like the car convertible of the time and therefore has no worries of not getting any air when he gets there especially since the planet's inhabited in this version! When on this planet, he becomes king (unbelievable, right!) and falls for a ballerina before...Let me just say that if you didn't think this was possible before, you're right! Anyway, it's because of that ending that I sorta liked this cartoon despite not having much in the way of gags. So on that note, I say give this A Trip to the Moon a chance if you're an animation buff like I am.
This early example of animation in the Happy Hooligan series doesn't come with much information attached, although the source of the Youtube copy I saw attributes it to Walter Lantz.It's not much of a cartoon by modern standards: Happy speaks with someone in the park and takes a trip to the moon on a rocket that looks like the front half of a current racing car, where he is made king of the moon. A ballerina does a shimmy and Our Hero winds up back in the park being accosted by a cop. The inference is that he has fallen asleep and dreamed the entire trip.Visually there are some glosses on the famous 1902 Melies film and the animation is spiffy for the year this was made. However, this effect to the modern eye is .... well, it seems pretty pointless. It's of some interest for its position in animation history, but that's about it.
