Very few of the cartoons directed by Rudolf Ising -- or his partner, Hugh Harman -- for Merrie Melodies were very good. They were still far too busy trying to create Disney look-alikes (like Bosko, for Mickey Mouse), maintain their contracts and deal with their intermediary, Leon Schlesinger, whom they would shortly try to cut out of the equation and who would reply by raiding their shop and forming the nucleus of Termite Terrace. Nonetheless, they had a few good ideas and this one, in which a man leaves his library and characters emerge from books, would become a staple of cartoons for the next dozen years, leading to pictures set in drug stores, road signs, neon lights and book stores.
This cartoon, therefore, is not very good, but is important enough to warrant your looking at it.
This cartoon, therefore, is not very good, but is important enough to warrant your looking at it.