The Lone Ranger and Tonto take on cattle rustlers.The Lone Ranger and Tonto take on cattle rustlers.The Lone Ranger and Tonto take on cattle rustlers.
Photos
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe origins of this cartoon remain something of a mystery. It was a Pathegrams release on the 16mm home film market sometime in the 1930s, capitalizing on the popularity of the Lone Ranger character, who originated on radio in 1933.
Pathegrams was the home-film distribution label of the Pathé Exchange (later Pathé Film Corporation), operating from 1927 through the end of the 1930s. The label mainly issued abridged and rebranded footage from prior theatrical releases (comedy shorts, feature films, etc.), before Eugene W. Castle helped to revive the struggling brand in 1937 with a shift toward newsreels.
This animated Lone Ranger is likely the first film representation of the pop culture icon, predating the Republic Pictures serial The Lone Ranger (1938). Because of the cartoon's obscurity, speculation has arisen about the film's true origins, with some fans theorizing that the animation was repurposed from an earlier project unrelated to the character.
Featured review
Though released in 1936, the technical quality of this cartoon is like something from half-a-dozen or more years earlier. The drawing is very simple, and sequences of frames are repeated multiple times though the entire cartoon (including credits-and-all-that) is just two minutes and 39 seconds long. The Lone Ranger looks like a generic cartoon cowboy. What little dialogue this cartoon has is communicated with inter-titles; the soundtrack is just music, mostly the William Tell Overture. The catch phrase "heigh-o" is misspelled as "hiegh-o". Very little story is told, and details are elided even still.
Details
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- 1930s Lone Ranger Cartoon
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
- Runtime3 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content