Stoopnocracy (1933)
4/10
Stoopnocracy is peachy
8 November 2007
A poor but watchable version of this cartoon is currently available on YouTube. There is not much in this curiosity to recommend it- some bad gags, a couple of them rendered awkwardly racist by the passing of the decades, commingled with the comedy of the now-forgotten Col. Stoopnagle and Budd. This little loop offers few clues for any cultural anthropologist to understand why the Colonel and Budd were such stars in the 1930s. I am an Old Time Radio fan; sadly, almost none of their shows survived. But The Colonel (F. Chase Taylor) did leave a book or two, written in a typically breezy New Yorker style. I have been fascinated by seeing the Colonel and Budd in their best surviving bit in W.C. Fields' "International House," also released in 1933. I recommend that film for a clearer picture of the duo.
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