My Green Fedora

When you see "My Green Fedora" you are bound to notice that it is in color but not full color. This is because in 1935, Disney had an exclusive agreement with Technicolor to use its new Three-Color process...which would give a true color appearance to the films. Instead, if other studios wanted color, they needed to use a cheaper Two-Color process...such as Cinecolor. While cheaper to use, the Cinecolor films clearly have a limited spectrum--and they mostly look blue-greenish and ornagy-red. Now I must say the copy on HBO Max is an awfully good one, as with some of these films the colors all degrade to a pinkish or orangy hue.

The cartoon is another Peter Rabbit cartoon from Looney Tunes. Peter wants to go out to play but his mother insists he stay home and take care of his little brother, Elmer. As for Elmer, he likes to cry a lot...so when Peter runs off the play and leaves Elmer home alone, he's about to be eaten by the evil weasel....something I looked forward to seeing. Sadly, Peter is the hero here and he rushes off to save Elmer.

A major plus of this cartoon is that unlike most Harmon-Ising cartoons for Looney Tunes, there is none of the usual sacchariney singing. While not particularly funny (a problem typical in their products), it is not so cutesy...and so it holds up better than most of the early Looney Tunes shorts. Overall, not great BUT compared to many of the cartoons of the day by most rival studios, it's awfully good...particularly the animation and backgrounds. For 1935, quite good.