Land of the Midnight Fun


Land of the Midnight Fun is a 1939 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon supervised by Tex Avery. The short was released as early as September 14, 1939.

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 at a telephone pole; a timber wolf goes around shouting "Timber!" ; two Eskimos rub noses: in preparation, the woman applies lipstick to her nose. Finally, an Eskimo nightclub 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 1939 [New York World's Fair|World's Fair] Trylon.

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