If you study animation history, the cartoons have come along way. This animated short is cute about animals and Christmas. Ginger Nutt's Christmas Circus is one of those cartoon shorts long forgotten by time. I found this short on my Scrooge DVD (1935 version). While it's entertaining, I don't have to think about what's going on. It reminds of the day when cartoons were light-hearted, fun, and innocent. The characters here are mostly animals. These animated shorts were probably shown before the main movie features in the cinemas at the time and place long before television entered homes. At the time, the cartoon shorts were innocent and maybe offensive by today's standards but still worth watching. They were not intended to offend but entertain it's audiences.
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Ginger Nutt's Christmas Circus is an amusing David Hand cartoon from Great Britain
tavm27 December 2007
Just discovered on the Cartoons, Model Sheets, and Stuff blog this David Hand production from England called Ginger Nutt's Christmas Circus. Mr. Nutt is the ringleader of this happening that involved various animals putting on a show in the big top. The main story involves a parrot trying to crash the place but gets thrown out. He then tricks a weasel into giving him his ticket so the weasel then tries to get even with parrot but gets thrown out since now HE'S crashing the place. Watch the cartoon if you want to know how it all ends up. It's on Daily Motion as linked on the blog I just mentioned. Pretty funny if not hilarious.
Gret for small children
Christmas-Reviewer30 March 2017
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A sold-out show for the Christmas Circus can't stop Boko, a purposeful (and cantankerous) parrot, from weaseling Willie Weasel's tickets away. Squirrel Ginger is the ringmaster for an animal circus. A parrot has gotten in by steeling the weasel's ticket; the weasel keeps trying to enter as well, but keeps getting thrown out. The parrot heckles, and is also thrown out. The weasel prepares to clobber the parrot, but a mole pops up with a "Peace on Earth" sign which the weasel smashes on the parrot.
this is an okay animated short. The younger you are the more you might like this
A sold-out show for the Christmas Circus can't stop Boko, a purposeful (and cantankerous) parrot, from weaseling Willie Weasel's tickets away. Squirrel Ginger is the ringmaster for an animal circus. A parrot has gotten in by steeling the weasel's ticket; the weasel keeps trying to enter as well, but keeps getting thrown out. The parrot heckles, and is also thrown out. The weasel prepares to clobber the parrot, but a mole pops up with a "Peace on Earth" sign which the weasel smashes on the parrot.
this is an okay animated short. The younger you are the more you might like this
Parrot tries to sneak into show, gets in using a weasel's ticket, causes a disaster
llltdesq7 January 2007
Warning: Spoilers
Rather cute and somewhat charming short featuring a continuing cast of animal characters, part of David Hand's Animaland series. Ginger Nutt is a squirrel with a girlfriend named Hazel. There will be spoilers below:
Ginger Nutt and the other animals are putting on a show for which they've sold tickets. A parrot tries to go in without a ticket and is promptly tossed out as a "gate-crasher". He then tricks a weasel into giving him his ticket and uses it to go into the show in his place. The parrot is rather obnoxious and proceeds to cause trouble throughout the show.
Meanwhile, the weasel keeps trying to get in the show to get at the parrot, only to wind up getting tossed out for trying to get in without a ticket. The short alternates between the parrot disrupting the show and the weasel getting thwarted in his attempts to get in. There are some nice visuals, but that's pretty much it as far as the plot goes. The weasel ultimately does get more or less even with the parrot.
The Animaland series has the surviving shorts available on DVD and the cartoons have a very nice curio quality to them. Recommended.
Ginger Nutt and the other animals are putting on a show for which they've sold tickets. A parrot tries to go in without a ticket and is promptly tossed out as a "gate-crasher". He then tricks a weasel into giving him his ticket and uses it to go into the show in his place. The parrot is rather obnoxious and proceeds to cause trouble throughout the show.
Meanwhile, the weasel keeps trying to get in the show to get at the parrot, only to wind up getting tossed out for trying to get in without a ticket. The short alternates between the parrot disrupting the show and the weasel getting thwarted in his attempts to get in. There are some nice visuals, but that's pretty much it as far as the plot goes. The weasel ultimately does get more or less even with the parrot.
The Animaland series has the surviving shorts available on DVD and the cartoons have a very nice curio quality to them. Recommended.
Well worth seeing....terrific stuff
nnwahler6 December 2007
If you're an animation aficionado & have yet to investigate the art of David Hand, look no further than the "Animaland" DVD. There were only a few shorts put out in this series when American-turned-Brit Hand's studio was forced to close down. Animation historian Charles Solomon writes these off as uninspired clones of the 40s Walter Lantz cartoons, but they deserve far greater plaudits....chief among the films THIS one, the cream of the crop. It gives non-British viewers a look at how England serves up light entertainment during the Yuletide, and is brimful of imaginative fireworks & rockets of dazzling animation. Hand was a Disney veteran, and this film's the ultimate fruition of his tutelage of the British animators he'd trained. My unqualified recommendation.
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