After Tom & Jerry's The Night Before Christmas and Alan's festive Snoopy , I want to share this nugget of nostalgia with you - MGM's Bottles , released in 1936. It's not Christmassy in the slightest - indeed, Halloween would be more appropriate - but this Happy Harmonies cartoon looms very large in my memory and synchs somehow with Christmas Eve, and the idea that toys etc. have secret lives. Indeed, when Alan and I were recently discussing favourite, formative cartoons, this one came up as a shared touchstone - an emotive 'hot-key' to our respective childhoods. Do a bit of research around this animation, and you'll see Alan and I are not alone in our respect for it. Enjoy!
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