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Alan Rik
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posted June 06, 2006 04:05 AM

Ok. I have been racking my brain for over a decade trying to find the title of this cartoon hoping it is out on Super 8. Here is basically what I remember. Its a mouse and he is trying to stay awake till Xmas eve. I remember a scene where he is trying to keep awake with coffee/hot chocolate but his eyes can keep open. In the end he missed St. Nick.
The cartoon's animation style is the old style with very warm reds and browns. I always thought it was a fleischmann cartoon but now Im not so sure.
Any ideas?

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Douglas Meltzer
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posted June 06, 2006 10:45 AM

Alan,

I think you're referring to Chuck Jones' "Bedtime for Sniffles" (1940).

Doug

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Alan Rik
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posted June 06, 2006 11:40 AM

Wow! That is the one. I am impressed. Now..was it ever offered in Super 8? This one may be a little harder..

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Douglas Meltzer
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posted June 06, 2006 01:09 PM

It doesn't appear to be in Derann's current catalog. I've only seen 16mm prints on eBay.

Doug

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Alan Rik
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posted June 06, 2006 03:21 PM

Yeah.. I see I just missed one. Course I dont have a 16mm projector so...

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Michael De Angelis
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posted June 06, 2006 05:14 PM

Rik,

It's times as these, when a print comes on
eBay to grab a print, and to have a
16mm projector on hand to run
stuff to fill in the gaps that are
not available in 8mm.

Bedtime for Sniffles
is a huge crowd pleaser in our place.
My wife requests it every year.

The ebayer that had that up for grabs is
worth checking out: filmman324
because I have won several auctions from
him in the past.

That print of Bedtime for Sniffles closed at
$66.00 dollars, which is half
of what I paid for my print five years ago,
and it's worth every penny.

Michael

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Jan Bister
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posted June 06, 2006 08:12 PM

Alan,

"Fleischmann?" [Cool]

I'm sure you meant Fleischer (Max & Dave), but that just caught my eye because I remember a company named Fleischmann selling transformers for use with electric trains, particularly the famous German L-G-B (large gauge), short for Lehmann Gross-Bahn. Incidentally I used to shoot super-8 trick scenes using the LGB trains... funny how things come full circle. [Smile]

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Alan Rik
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posted June 07, 2006 11:35 AM

He he.. Fleischman.. I must have been thinking of "Northern Exposure"!
Ok.. Jan.. so now you have to also keep an eye out for "Bedtime for Sniffles" for me as well! [Smile]

You are officially on the Ebay watch program.

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Michael De Angelis
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posted June 07, 2006 05:14 PM

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Incidentally I used to shoot super-8 trick scenes using the LGB trains... funny how things come full circle.

Jan,

I'd like to hear about those special
trick scenes using LGB Trains. I have a
small collection of LGB. [Smile]

Perhaps you can share this on another new
posting?

Michael

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Steve Klare
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posted June 07, 2006 08:33 PM

Excellent! The "Mamod Thread" never got off the ground, but I have LGB trains and even have mounted a camera in them!

Maybe "Fleischman" is actually the margarine!

Man!, can we ever warp a thread!

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Jan Bister
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posted June 08, 2006 06:06 AM

LOL! So true!

As for the LGB film I shot way back then... I'll have to view it again, barely remember it now... but it really wasn't so much "trick" scenes (as in animation or the like) but just toying around, like putting the camera right in front of a curve and letting the train go full-speed so it looks like it's about to smash through the screen, only to turn away and out of the picture at the last second. [Big Grin]

And in another scene I had the camera sitting on top of one of the wagons and used a cable release to lock it into continuous shooting...and filmed the train go 'round and 'round. Ahhh, those were the days, man. [Cool]

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Michael De Angelis
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posted June 08, 2006 11:31 PM

Jan,

It sounds great!
Akin to 'This is Cinerama'
in an 8mm format. [Smile]

Michael

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