Web Site Logo

This website is made possible, in part, by displaying a few online advertisements to our visitors.
Please consider supporting us by disabling your ad blocker for this site.
[ <- Back to Film & TV Tributes ]

 
Click to view full image
 

HOUSE OF MAGIC

Air Date/Released Monday, February 8, 1937
Station/Studio Universal / Walter Lantz Prods
Host/Star Meany, Miny and Moe

Per The Three Stooges Scrapbook, animation producer Walter Lantz once said he took inspiration for his mute chimpanzee characters from The Three Stooges. These three characters are not directly modeled or imitative of the Stooges, but the toons’ scenarios of three not-too-bright chimps creating havoc and confusion in their surroundings do exhibit Lantz’s “inspiration.” In HOUSE OF MAGIC, the trio take refuge from a rainstorm in a magic shop and raise havoc with the store’s stock of gadgets and illusions.


13 Meany, Miny and Moe cartoons were produced for Universal, 1936 – 1937. Most are unavailable, but HOUSE OF MAGIC is contained on various public domain video collections. The other 12 cartoons are:
TURKEY DINNER (11-30-1936)
KNIGHTS FOR A DAY (1936-12-25)
THE GOLFERS (1937-01-11)
THE BIG RACE (1937-03-03)
THE LUMBER CAMP (1937-03-15)
THE STEEL WORKERS (1937-04-26)
THE STEVEDORES (1937-05-24)
THE COUNTRY STORE (1937-07-05)
FIREMEN’S PICNIC (1937-08-16)
REST RESORT (1937-08-23)
OSTRICH FEATHERS (1937-09-06)
AIR EXPRESS (1937-09-20)

Crew: Walter Lantz (Producer, Director), Walter Lantz, Victor McLeod (Story), Manuel Moreno, George Dane, Louis Zukor (Animators), James Dietrich (Music)
[ <- Back to Film & TV Tributes ]




FAIR USE NOTICE: This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We make such material available in an effort to advance awareness and understanding of the issues involved. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information please visit: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission directly from the copyright owner.