The first few Merrie Melodies were not particularly original or inventive - the best years were yet to come - but this Harman/Ising production based around the Dubin/Warren tune from 'Gold Diggers of 1933' is OK.
The basic premise surrounds a group of toys who start to walk, talk, sing and play instruments when the shop owner has gone to bed. In a blatant plug for the song (which Warners owned), toys, hats, and the like join together in chorus.
The trouble is there were quite a few cartoons with the same plot, all using a song as a centre, and this is nothing new. As a historical document though, it has its interest.
We're in the Money
1933
Action / Animation / Comedy / Family / Musical
We're in the Money
1933
Action / Animation / Comedy / Family / Musical
Plot summary
After the last human has left the department store, the toys proceed to the music department where they start performing the Warren/Dubin song "We're in the money". The money soon joins for a chorus, as well as display dolls in the wardrobe department.
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Now is the time for EVERY Millennial to view . . .
. . . WE'RE IN THE MONEY, and listen to that haunting lyric, "We've never seen a headline about a breadline--Today." (To recap, that means we DID see a soup line yesterday, and expect to line up in the queue for drinking water tomorrow, but we found enough pennies in the sidewalk cracks to SKIP the breadline--and the breadline headlines--Today.) "What's a breadline?" those from totally sheltered backgrounds may be asking. It's America's Once and Future Fate. As Warner Bros.' live action feature HEROES FOR SALE documented the same decade that they released WE'RE IN THE MONEY, America's War Veterans got a tiny taste of breadlines--in which the Fat Cat One Per Centers scrape a few of the many crumbs off their plates for the starving American Majority when their Greed has made the whole nation as Bankrupt as Trump--in the 1930s. The Coming Deluge will make breadlines the norm, with Life as we Knew It ending. With the Fox "News" contingent of the U.S. Military set to cram Trump into the White House Win, Lose, or Withdraw, and the Presidential "Tie"-breaking American Supreme Court fiendishly sabotaged, the entire U.S. power\banking\water\sewage grid will collapse within a month of Trumpenstein Day. So you'd better memorize the lyrics to WE'RE IN THE MONEY now while you still have access to Electricity and Communication, and pray that the Trumpsters will have the Decency to revive Breadlines!
I liked this early Merrie Melodie cartoon, We're in the Money
This is one of three Merrie Melodies cartoons based on songs from Gold Diggers of 1933 that was included on that movie's DVD. This was a Harmon-Ising production and it has toys coming to life singing and playing the title song to amusing life though I laughed heartily when the carbon heads of Laurel & Hardy did some nonsense gibberish. The movements were pretty good especially when one of those human toys was playing on the xylophone with his feet. Oh, and the coins in the cash register with the presidential heads were also amusing when they were singing. Really, I was just charmed by the whole thing so on that note, We're in the Money is worth a look for anyone interested in these early talkie cartoons.