The Cobweb Hotel
The Cobweb Hotel is a 1936 American short film directed by Dave Fleischer and Max Fleischer and is one of the short films that belongs to the Color Classics film series.[1] The setting is said to be one of the Fleischer's desks, which the spider used to open the hoax hotel.[2]
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Directed by | Dave Fleischer |
Produced by | Max Fleischer |
Starring | Jack Mercer (uncredited) |
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Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 8 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Plot
The cartoon starts off with a devious spider (voiced by Jack Mercer) who holds many fly captives in the rooms of "The Cobweb Hotel" and sees a newly married couple of flies booking a room into the fake hotel. After they become separated, the male fly fights with the spider being a "flyweight champion". However, he still becomes stuck in a net during the match.
Meanwhile, his wife wriggles herself free from the web and gives freedom to all the captives, who torment the spider by flicking several sharp pen heads and firing many aspirin pills at the spider. After paying revenge to the spider, the couple attend another wedding ceremony, followed by the other captives of the hotel, until the ending scene rolls in.
References
- Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 66–67. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
- "The Cobweb Hotel (1936) - The Internet Animation Database". www.intanibase.com. Retrieved August 4, 2018.