You're an Education

You're an Education

Directed By:		Frank Tashlin
Produced By:		Leon Schlesinger
Released:		November 5, 1938
Series:		Merrie Melodies
Story:		Dave Monahan
Animation:		A.C. Gamer Robert McKimson
Layouts:
Backgrounds:
Film Editor:		Treg Brown
Voiced By:		Mel Blanc Billy Bletcher Dave Weber
Music:		Carl W. Stalling
Starring:		Travel Brochures Flying Fish Swimmers Hungary Boys Cook Island Thief of Bagdad Pawnee Indians Baby Central America Bobbies Mounties Scotland Yard Dude Ranch Hand Lone Stranger Lone Stranger's Horse Sherlock Holmes Singing Tibetan
Preceded By:		Porky in Egypt
Succeeded By:		The Night Watchman

You're an Education is a 1938 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Frank Tashlin.

Plot

The brochures in a travel agency spring to life in this "it's-midnight-and-everything-comes-to-life" cartoon.

This was Frank Tashlin's last cartoon with Warner Bros. for five years; he left the studio to become a gag writer with Disney, then moved to Screen Gems to direct. He would return in 1943.
According to the book Frank Tashlin by Roger Garcia, "several shots (including a caricature of Hugh Herbert) totaling 67 feet (approx. 45 seconds) were removed for this film's 'Blue Ribbon Special' reissue in 1946." The bulk of these cuts appear to take place primarily towards the beginning of the cartoon, specifically during the montage sequence featuring brochures of various world destinations accompanied by a song germane to that place. Some of the brochures are bridged with dissolves, others with fade-outs. Some of the fade-outs, however, appear to allude to obvious edits. Later in the cartoon, another apparent edit occurs. This takes place during the "Yuba Plays the Tuba" sequence in which a shot of a Native American fish (representing the "Indian" Ocean) abruptly fades to black and quickly fades into Lawrence Tibbett in Tibet.
This is the third and final entry in Tashlin's Books-Come-to-Life trilogy released in 1937-1938.
Final cartoon to use the 1937-38 Orange-Yellow Color Rings with black background.
First cartoon to use the newer Merrie Melodies outro until April 1941.