Sponsored Films

In My Merry Oldsmobile (1931)
Sponsor: Olds Motor Works. Production Co.: Fleischer Studios. Director: Dave Fleischer. Producer: Max Fleischer. Animation: Jimmie “Shamus” Culhane, Al Eugster, Rudy Zamora. Cast: Billy Murray, Gus Wickie. Transfer Note: Scanned from a 35mm print held by the Library of Congress. Running Time: 6 minutes.

Advertising cartoon filled with double entendres and suggestive imagery. Leonard Maltin called it “a delightful short, with a bouncing-ball chorus, that ranks alongside any contemporary Fleischer cartoon in terms of quality and content.”

Note: In My Merry Oldsmobile takes its title from the 1905 song by Gus Edwards and Vincent P. Bryan. The film was distributed theatrically.

Resources
Leonard Maltin, Of Mice and Magic (New York: New American Library and McGraw-Hill, 1980), 88, 96.