The careful attention to design detail is wonderful here, even the pesky fly's antics are accurately depicted. The candy train is just a delight, and has all the correct working parts. Confections were hugely popular then (and still are). Adults and kids alike would have marveled at the sweets portrayed.
Cupcakes were a novel new dessert treat at the time. They experienced a gourmet resurgence decades later, thanks, in part, to the TV series Sex and the City.
The was the first three-strip Technicolor cartoon to be released by Columbia Pictures.
Very likely at least part of the inspiration for the popular board game "Candy Land," which came out in 1948.
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