A Cartoonist's Nightmare

A Cartoonist's Nightmare
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Production company	Leon Schlesinger Productions
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	September 14, 1935
Run time	8 minutes
Starring	Tommy Bond Billy Bletcher
Producer(s)	Leon Schlesinger
Music composed by	Bernard Brown Norman Spencer
Animation	Don Williams Paul Smith
Director(s)	Jack King
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A Cartoonist's Nightmare is the sixty-second short in the Looney Tunes theatrical series. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on September 14, 1935. It was produced by Leon Schlesinger and directed by Jack King.

An animator is sucked into a dungeon by a goblin that he created. Beans, who is also captured by the goblin, aids the animator in his escape.

Detailed summary

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Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Animator	Unavailable
Beans	Tommy Bond
Goblin	Billy Bletcher
Spike the Spider	Billy Bletcher
Dirty Dan	Billy Bletcher
Battling Barney	N/A
One Punch Otto	Billy Bletcher
Mad Doctor	Billy Bletcher
Evil cat	Unavailable
Little Kitty	N/A

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Animated Cartoon Studio
      • Animator's desk
        • Goblin's dungeon

Music

The score was composed by Bernard Brown and Norman Spencer.

The song by that the villains perform in front of the animator is in tune to the 1907 song "The Teddy Bears' Picnic," by John Walter Bratton.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: November 2, 1935 in theatres

Behind the scenes

• This is the first short to feature a solo appearance of Beans, and his first appearance in the Looney Tunes series.
• Beans is portrayed much differently in that he was cast in a heroic role than his previous appearance in I Haven't Got a Hat, where he was portrayed as a mischievous brat.
• The goblin uses the same design as the beast from Beauty and the Beast.
• One Punch Otto first appeared in Mr. and Mrs. Is the Name.
• The Mad Doctor originates from Buddy the Detective.

Errors

• None(?)

Connections

• This short has the earliest instance to have an interaction between an animator and a sentient cartoon character in a Warner Bros. cartoon, a metafictional element that would later be played out in shorts such as Duck Amuck (1953), and in other media within the Looney Tunes franchise.

Home availability

• October 21, 2006: Warner Home Video releases Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6 on DVD.
• October 21, 2006: Warner Home Video releases Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 6 on DVD.