Hold It (1938)

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Ай бұрын

Hold It (U.S., 1938)
Director: Dave Fleischer.
Fleischer Studios had multiple “full color” projects under its belt (including a two-reel Popeye special) by the time work started on 1938’s Hold It, which presents a cozy bouquet of teal, lavender and caramel across its cool nighttime palette. The plot follows a scratchy-voiced feline crooner’s performance of the title song for an audience of neighborhood cats. The accompanying action includes a full order of Fleischer-style surrealism and anarchy: hyper-fluid kitty choreography gives way to a neighborhood dog chase, while the song’s refrain (“Hold it!”) generates a series of memorable, gravity-defying gags.-Russell Zych
Restoration funded by ASIFA-Hollywood. Restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive from the 35mm nitrate successive exposure negative and a 35mm variable density track negative. Laboratory services by Roundabout Entertainment, Inc., Audio Mechanics, Simon Daniel Sound.

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@Purplesubmariner Ай бұрын

I love how all the laws of physics freeze on the hold it, _except_ the TNT stick

@mayhair 18 күн бұрын

7:18

@imhafdhom 17 күн бұрын

@@mayhair Thanks MaiGai

@Anonymouthful Ай бұрын

At first I was thinking "Wow this opening shot is so well animated" then I realized its a miniature set piece being spun around.

@toonrog9957 Ай бұрын

that's what the Fleishers studios were famous for from aprox. 1935-1940ish of some titles .

@Anonymouthful Ай бұрын

@@toonrog9957 Im familiar with the technique, the colors just managed to fool me for a bit.

@toonrog9957 Ай бұрын

@@Anonymouthful thats tenicolor that improved from roughfly 1931-1937ish.....and then took and big leap in color improvement in 1967

@robotx9285 Ай бұрын

Thst shot is still amazing.

@Purplesubmariner Ай бұрын

Batman Beyond utilized that same technique in a section of the intro

@FilmmakeroftheFuture Ай бұрын

I like that the dog abided by the rules of the game too.

@themaxterz0169 Ай бұрын

and the violin, and the apples, and the water 😂

@forgottenhelm1299 Ай бұрын

All of creation must bow its knee

@blazingsonic Ай бұрын

The cat is the original stand of the world. XD

@gluttonousmaximus9048 Ай бұрын

What a night-and-date upgrade from the muddy and discolored TV print, like this doesn't even seem REAL!!!

@theretroshack7864 Ай бұрын

You could call this a Technicolor Dream!!!

@fromthesidelines Ай бұрын

The U.M.& M./NTA TV prints were duped in Eastmancolor- and still look *crummy* after almost 60 years.

@fredmorton4291 Ай бұрын

Technicolor was extremely expensive but boy did it put everyone else to shame!

@fromthesidelines Ай бұрын

That's why Max Fleischer continued to film the body of his cartoons in black and white until he was forced out of his own studio in January 1942. Famous Studios- Paramount's successor to Fleischer Studios- continued to film the Popeye series in monochrome until 1943, when they introduced an "all-Technicolor" production schedule.

@FallopianTubeJones Ай бұрын

Exactly! This cartoon looks like it was made TODAY.

@swistedfilms Ай бұрын

I'm not sure how they predicted in 1938 what my front yard would look like while feeding the neighborhood strays in 2024 but there it is!

@ZilviniukasSaladiukas 10 күн бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣😂👍🖐️

@U_N_Owen Ай бұрын

Wow! This is the best I’ve ever seen a Color Classics cartoon look! Really great job! I know a lot of people have been waiting to see these restored for a long time.

@fuccasound3897 Ай бұрын

i just love seeing cats tease dogs. Observing cats over many years, they really will go to this much trouble to annoy a dog! I admire the way the cartoonists capture this in an (slightly) exaggerated way.

@EWOODJ Ай бұрын

I love the other way around

@rockinyouallnight Ай бұрын

Comedian Freddy Lewis used to perform the "Hold It" song like that black cat during his tour of Waxahachie back in '82.

@Mizzouriboi02 Ай бұрын

It’s so clean I thought it was a modern cartoon

@Nikolaos0603 Ай бұрын

Although watching this in its original format would’ve been interesting, I’m glad we live in a time period where material that was made almost a century ago can be digitally remastered.

@00LoVeUAE00 Ай бұрын

I love watching classic cartoons, as they are more beautiful than modern ones

@parkfever Ай бұрын

Crazy how this video is only one year older than my grandpa

@ohyekrokites6539 5 күн бұрын

Hiw old id your grandpa

@yoshy6147 Ай бұрын

7:19 The cat must have explosive proof armor 😂😂

@joecab1 Ай бұрын

This is a stunning restoration -- and a hilarious Fleischer Bros cartoon I've never seen! Thank you

@user-lk9vz2dt5i Ай бұрын

How blessed are we to be able to watch those treasures in this quality! Thank you very much for sharing your restoration with us!

@d-manthecaptain1382 Ай бұрын

4:43 Ah, look at these nice thick outlines. It had been so long since the old days when all of Fleischer's cartoons had this wonderfully unique look

@michaelmcgilp7825 Ай бұрын

That looks absolutely mint! Please give this treatment to the other Color Classics and Talkartoons.

@FleischerToons Ай бұрын

Yes, stay tooned to our channel for more restored Fleischer cartoons ❤

@nelsonhughes9683 Ай бұрын

@@FleischerToonsLook forward to seeing more restorations from you guys.

@allanbob8579 Ай бұрын

@@FleischerToons Were you involved in this one? Your organization is not mentioned anywhere within the opening

@AnimationNation2004 Ай бұрын

@@allanbob8579I assume they weren’t.

@LucarioMasterX Ай бұрын

6:57 Predicted Catdog 😂

@christianpeligrinocagadas9781 29 күн бұрын

Since Paramount via Nickelodeon produced this show.

@bernd6471 Ай бұрын

This looks and sounds incredible

@LowbrowProds Ай бұрын

The first half of this short (right before the song) plays like an early Talkartoon with inanimate gags like the cellar doors that open and close every which way.

@malfattio2894 26 күн бұрын

Those who did the clean up work for the audio and visuals for this short should be very proud of themselves!

@DaveDunning-st1hh Ай бұрын

I have been watching, loving, and studying cartoons and toon history for 60 years. What a delight to find an old classic toon I've never seen before ! Great treat!

@garryferrington811 29 күн бұрын

I hate the term "toon." But, of course, that's not your concern.

@dave_goldcrest 25 күн бұрын

I still enjoy the old-fashioned, stop-frame cartoons much more than CGI.

@beejls Ай бұрын

Holy cow, Technicolor it is. Nicely done.

@eubiecat Ай бұрын

Spectacular. It's like seeing it for the first time. Thank you for sharing this beautiful restoration.

@nathanielvaughn6728 Ай бұрын

Some of us literally are seeing it for the first time.

@z3roo0 Ай бұрын

so this is what cats do at night

@hueyiroquois3839 Ай бұрын

I used to have the Betty Boop collection on VHS, but I never realized how detailed those rotating sets were.

@VixenSTRIKEfront Ай бұрын

I used to have a bunch of DVDs containing cartoon classics back in the mid 2000s

@kenttm42 Ай бұрын

The Fleischer brothers innovated that process and some great examples can be seen in the Popeye two-reelers "Sinbad the Sailor" and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves "

@toonrog9957 Ай бұрын

@@kenttm42 exactly!!

@fromthesidelines Ай бұрын

Originally released in April 1938. Jack "Popeye" Mercer provides several of the cats' voices.

@TheToddSandler Ай бұрын

Aw hell yeah. Thank you ASIFA-Hollywood & UCLA Film & Television Archive !

@epet513 Ай бұрын

This is so much better than the "Cats" movie 😹!

@kkittycityy Ай бұрын

We need more Fleischer restorations from you guys! You’re doing so well, keep it up!

@DebbieAnneP Ай бұрын

Very nice! I’m impressed with the restoration work on this cartoon.

@krazykat1977 Ай бұрын

It looks fantastic on my HD TV, but the crystal-clear freaky ending will probably give me nightmares tonight. 😂

@ChristopherSobieniak Ай бұрын

😈 Classic!

@mikeyboo5603 Ай бұрын

Excellent restoration. MORE.

@russellzip 22 күн бұрын

This is exactly what my cat sounds like! Thank you UCLA for all the amazing restoration and programming work you do!

@reneelagrandeur7220 14 күн бұрын

As someone who grew up watching this on a scratchy vhs thank thank you from the bottoms of my heart 😭 this is truly the best quality I have ever seen ❤️

@elizabethreber8345 Ай бұрын

Before Cats the Musical became an international sensation…

@andrewtodaro2874 12 күн бұрын

Just one year before Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot was published. The source material Cats was based on! 😻

@emilysantoyo918 Ай бұрын

This is so cute and very well remastered.🎶🐱

@safiremorningstar Ай бұрын

It's being beautifully either remastered or preserved in some way it is just crystal clear thank you for putting this up.

@GaylordCohen Ай бұрын

🎶But when I say "hold it!", everybody HOLD!🎶

@JamesChatting Ай бұрын

*hold*

@EmperorOfTheScrubs Ай бұрын

I like the implication that the cats somehow have the power to control the laws of time, space and physics

@robertagregory7177 Ай бұрын

This is amazing! I remember seeing this on TV as a kid back in the early 1960s in LA… in black and white of course on our little TV with a yellowish tint and bad sound. This is a fantastic job. Thank you.

@takitogr Ай бұрын

amazing. never before seen it. beautiful colours. thanks!

@Thewolfguys.cartoons2000 Ай бұрын

I never seen an old cartoon that looks insanely good for 1938

@mrs.g.9816 Ай бұрын

I remember seeing this cartoon several times when I was a little kid. I'm grateful to ASIFA-Hollywood for the restoration. I think of all the cartoon studios, I liked (and still like!) Max Fleischer and Warner Bros. the best.

@mralart007 Ай бұрын

Who let the Cat's out!!

@raymondgallardo576 Ай бұрын

What clear the picture is and how crisp the sound is! Great job! I applaud you 👏 !

@gedaloomhiaka8488 Ай бұрын

The screen is way brighter than I remember. Last time I saw it was during the 90’s 📺

@MrCjosue24 Ай бұрын

I have two cats and they enjoy being outside all the time. They stay outside my room when it rains

@heckzotica Ай бұрын

Amazing restoration!

@richardhumphreys8662 Ай бұрын

The stereoptical process is used also in a couple of Popeye cartoons on KZfaq; Popeye Meets Ali Baba and Popeye Meets Sinbad the Sailor.

@Dell2YT Ай бұрын

Heck yeah Fleischer!!

@RakieemF Ай бұрын

I love this classic animation my pops showed me this ❤

@rjmcallister1888 Ай бұрын

A very good restoration, complete with opening and closing credits. The Fleischer Studio rivaled Disney for their quality of animation. What happened to them later is a shame.

@garryferrington811 29 күн бұрын

Great pioneers, not very good businessmen.

@Jesusdelagarza Ай бұрын

Large Dog (Abnormal Strength) Vs Cats (Superhuman Strength) 💪👑🖤🧡💜💗🟧🟪🈳️🟠🟣♀️👹😈🇺🇲🇯🇵

@thelastNokiauser Ай бұрын

Well when the cat started talking I couldn't handle much more

@megareavermickeybot7985 Ай бұрын

HOLD IT!

@Pixel1962 Ай бұрын

The restoration is off the planet!!

@di4352 Ай бұрын

This a horror film now that I think about it.

@gerrymcgrory1221 Ай бұрын

Wow! This restoration is incredible! The sound quality is amazing and even the picture and color stay very true to the original animation cels. Great job to the restoration team behind this one! And even the cartoon itself, I must say, it's surprisingly very good! Probably one of the funniest 30s cartoons I've seen in a long time, with a strong sense of comedic timing and creative usage of gravity. I can imagine the Looney Tunes creators like Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng took a lot of inspiration from cartoons like this.

@TheAnchorArmsChad Ай бұрын

If only we can get this Crisp of a Restore for Popeye

@unigonfilms99 Ай бұрын

Absolutely stunning restoration!🐱

@itaiko5498 Ай бұрын

Warrior cats the musical

@andrewtodaro2874 7 күн бұрын

😂

@zikadraws79 Ай бұрын

Well folks, there you have it. Cartoon kitties control the flow of time. The more you know 😸👍

@toonrog9957 Ай бұрын

this is how cartoons were supposed to look inna theaters, when first released, but the lesser vhs tape over companies inna 80s-thru say the early 2000's copied from lousy drive in or tv lesser standard 16mm or 35 mm film stock that was from home bought and not from the archive studio prints is the diff.

@garryferrington811 29 күн бұрын

It's a question how many negatives survive, or what sort of shape they're in.

@robcat2075 Ай бұрын

It seems unreal to be seeing an old film that doesn't weave back and forth in the frame.

@digimaks Ай бұрын

Veawing back and forth in the frame - that was old KZfaq setting that by default had video stabilization ON. It was intended for handheld videos being uploaded. When people uploaded the films and cartoons, the stabilization wasnt turned off - resulting in ruined videos.

@morganchein326 Ай бұрын

Moral of this cartoon: Only one MEOW can stop all.

@Ryoko9691 Ай бұрын

7:35. My cats on catnip😆.

@crazyivan030983 Ай бұрын

Beautiful quality.

@thatundergroundflavorrareo3194 Ай бұрын

This restoration looks amazing.

@elbuenpolloLoquendero Ай бұрын

Vaya que genial y Classico de lo mejor de la animación Paramount de los años 30 pero bueno ademas mucha gente lo recuerdan aún mas hasta ahora

@aleksandarvuksa4491 Ай бұрын

I know these classic cartoons short films will never public domain at some point.

@user-od5fh3gn4d Ай бұрын

Lol, I used to love watching these on TNT.

@SocialistIntrovert 22 күн бұрын

6:24 6:33 7:22 dog screaming. Had the dog got that new update he'd be on par with Tom.

@connermcqueen4598 Ай бұрын

Requested: The Little Strangers (1936) Restored

@LOL-cringe 11 күн бұрын

- I like that the dog abided by the rules of the game too.

@nelsonhughes9683 Ай бұрын

UCLA, could you post the newly restored Terrytoons cartoon FRENCH FRIED ('30)?

@Sasi-ex5yn Ай бұрын

I love those Disney/Warner/Fleischer classic toons because they are full of unrealistic gags. This should be the sense of cartoons even today. This is when I think to cartoons, not Marvel, anime, Disney princesses or the Simpsons

@pizzathefox8809 Ай бұрын

Oooh! This is a lovely short! Cat vs dog cartoons are always my favorite!

@fredyrodriguez8881 Ай бұрын

Cat: everybody hold! Me: No!

@jinaaaaa8080 Ай бұрын

Sincerely wonder if any doggie has been traumatized by watching it

@AuntBibby Ай бұрын

this is good but i feel bad 4 the dog lol

@ThePsyberGiantess 14 күн бұрын

Glorious. Best thing I've seen all day.

@Tony-bt7zu 26 күн бұрын

Gorgeous! Thank you for the restoration!!

@kaibutnor 11 күн бұрын

Christ the quality is amazing

@hoopoe3093 Ай бұрын

This animation was made a year before the classical movie, "Gone With The Wind." (1939) 😊

@toonrog9957 Ай бұрын

don't mean to be rude, but what is your point, ??..because frankly my dear, we don't give a.....[ heh, parafrasing, he said]

@KelanM Ай бұрын

Amazing restoration! If I may ask, do you have Irish Stew (Paul Terry, 1930) in your archives? I saw the cartoon in a filmography and it's been driving me crazy since. Thanks, and keep up the good work!

@yolodolosolopolo Ай бұрын

UCLA Film & TV Archive's online catalog shows that they have a 35mm nitrate fine grain master positive of Irish Stew in their collection, but I can't tell if they have an access copy available for on-site viewing. If you are a researcher you could contact them directly and they may be able to scan it for you to view on-site in Los Angeles.