Walter Lantz's Cartune Classics - Adventures of Tom Thumb Jr
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| Animated short film made by the studio of Lantz in the 40s, for Universal. | |
| Episode name | Adventures Of Tom Thumb Jr |
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| Featured giantess(es) | Mrs. "Giant" (para-giantess, unknown name) |
| Is it in English language? | ✅ Yes) |
One of the animated short films made by the Walter Lantz Productions studios, created to Universal, and at the same time, one of the first animations to show para-GTS thematic in the history, was produced in 1940.
This cartoon was originally produced for the cinemas (similar to the case of other cartoons of the golden age of animation), and corresponds to the series of shorts called "Walter Lantz Cartunes", which, like other animations of the time such as Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies, these short films focused on presenting one-shot, bone, independent stories by animated short, with characters that never come back to reappear in the studio.
As part of the "Cartunes" by Walter Lantz, it was broadcast as part of "The Woody Woodpecker Show", a series where apart from presenting short films of the most popular character of Universal Studios, they also showed other animations of the same studio, like Andy Panda, Chilly Willy, and others.
This short is a parody of Tom Thumb, although it has other references.
Synopsis
The cartoon begins by presenting on the screen an adventurer named Tom Thumb Jr, a minature man accompanied by a cricket, he appears in the middle of the sea sailing in a shoe Used as a ship, Tom is surprised to look at the horizon and says "Land in sight".
Tom and the cricket manage to reach the mainland, then go out to explore the new "unknown land" that they have just found (which is nothing more nor less than the garden of the old woman who inhabits the island), they see that everything its surroundings are "huge" (from the perspective of a tiny), Tom in defense, attacks a bee with an arrow thinking that it is a "dragon", the bee becomes enraged and pursues the protagonists, that then they run until approaching a barrel with water, the bee almost stings them, and ends up uncovering the barrel full of water when chopping the cork.
Then appears on the scene, the old woman who inhabits the island, taking care of your garden, Tom for while, leaves his clothes to dry after getting wet by the water of the barrel, his companion cricket alerts Tom of a "giant monster" that comes to attacking them, although Tom realizes that he is not more than a "lady" of great size, both proceed to hide among the flowers of the garden (with Tom being naked).
The old woman, while watering the flowers of her garden, discovers that there is a little person in one of the flowers, who is nothing more than Tom naked, given the "sweet" appearance of the smiling boy of the protagonist, the para-giantess confuses Tom, thinking he is a naked baby in the middle of a garden, she then proceeds to take Tom in her hands.
The para-giantess takes Tom to her house, where she proceeds to give him a bath and consent (by mistakenly assuming he is a baby), Tom protests about it, but the old woman ignores him, after some gags where Tom is forced to be considered a baby, the old woman takes him to a small bed so he can "sleep" at ease, this then leaves the room.
The cricket finally reaches the room, without first mocking Tom, he then tells the cricket to help him find food, so they both separate to explore the house of the para-giantess.
Several things happen, for example, the cricket fights with a sardine that does not want to be taken out of its package, Tom competes against a mouse for getting a piece of cheese from a mousetrap, all in a failed attempt to get food in the house of the para-giantss.
Everything gets more dangerous when Tom hits his head against a duckling in an attempt to eat an ear, the duckling calls his mother, and the mother duck (also relatively big to Tom) then chases Tom down the aisle, until almost eating it, Tom arrives later at a can of salmon, and tries to climb it to get food, but is chased by a "giant" cat.
Tom then runs away scared, telling his fellow cricket "Run, save your life, we are pursued by the giants", while all the animals of the house chase Tom.
The frightened protagonists, leave in their shoe-shaped boat to escape the island, the cartoon ends with Tom and his cricket fleeing the island, while the giant animals of each of the old woman look away as the boat shoe is loses on the horizon.
Trivia
- The short is not only a parody of Tom Thumb, it also refers to Gulliver's Travels when it reaches the land of giants, and the same name as the character in the short, refers to a famous character named Tom Thumb, who was a 19th-century artist who suffered from dwarfism.
- The cricket that accompanies Tom in the short, could make a reference to Jiminy Cricket, character of the Disney movie "Pinocchio".
- The fact that Tom and his cricket travel in a shoe, could perhaps mean that they have already had interaction with "giants" before (or possibly giantess).
- As it is again emphasized, this is one of the first animations with para-GTS theme in history, although presenting an old woman.
- It is quite remarkable that Walter Lantz and his team of animators are not part of the GTS community, and least of all for a time when sexual fetishes were a taboo subject, the word "giantess" is never mentioned in the short , instead, the cricket refers to the old woman as a giant monster.
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