Western Daze
George Pal's first Paramount Puppetoon features Jim Dandy time travelling across The Great Divide to the Old West where he's tricked by horse thieves Grabit and Hide, and smitten by Prunella, the rancher's daughter.
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"Jim Dandy winds up in the old west, hornswoggled into buying a stolen horse, and romancing Prunella, the rancher's daughter. It's the first Puppetoon George Pal did for Paramount. More formally, they were offered as 'Madcap Models.' In sum, they are stop-motion cartoons. Pal had been turning them out since 1934, often for advertising Phillips products. Here, we get a funny burlesque of westerns. Pal was the most cartoonish of the stop-motion guys; Willis O'Brien and later Ray Harryhausen strove to produce things that looked like they might exist, but Pal hired writer..."
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George Pal's first Paramount Puppetoon features Jim Dandy time travelling across The Great Divide to the Old West where he's tricked by horse thieves Grabit and Hide, and smitten by Prunella, the rancher's daughter.