Beauty and the Beast

Cinecolor==high quality look to it--mre blue and red than usual but cannot achieve yellow on banana and some other colors kid eating candy in badroom---fairytale character on wall comes to life and she is transported to dreamland.

IMDB has a nice explanation as to why the colors used in "Beauty and the Beast" are so unusual for a color cartoon. It seems that the new three-color process developed by Technicolor was licensed exclusively to Disney at this time, so other companies making cartoons would usually just make them in black & white. Occasionally (such as with the Fleischer Brothers' version of Cinderella as well as this cartoon), studios used the cheaper and inferior Cinecolor to make color-ish cartoons. Yes, they had colors but mostly variations on reddish-orange and blueish-green. Over time, these cartoons tend to degrade and the colors become very pink or orangy. Fortunately, the copies recently posted to HBOMax have been restored and look great for these sorts of primitive color films.

The story consists of a little girl going to bed and the Sandman comes off the wall and sprinkles fairy dust on her...and she falls asleep and ends up in a fairytale world. There, things are swell until a monster shows up and so it's up to the characters to come to the little girl's rescue.

Like so many Harmon-Ising directed cartoons of the era, the emphasis in this one is on being cute and singing...making it a bit insipid to watch today. Not terrible because the animation is so nice, but lacking the comedy of later Looney Tunes shorts.