MR. ELEPHANT GOES TO TOWN-Color Rhapsody (Screen Gems/Columbia-1940)

From 1940, here's "Mr. Elephant Goes To Town," part of Columbia Pictures' Color Rhapsody series, in which a circus elephant gets drunk on "cold elixir" before he befriends a pink elephant.  Our hero is in no shape when the ringmaster finds him.



With animation by Sid Marcus and music by Joe De Nat, this cartoon, made by the Screen Gems cartoon studio in Hollywood and shown with the original main titles, was directed by Art Davis.

SLAY IT WITH FLOWERS-Color Rhapsody (w/ Fox and Crow) (Screen Gems/Colum...

From 1943, here are the Fox and Crow starring in a Columbia Pictures-released Screen Gems Color Rhapsody Technicolor cartoon "Slay It With Flowers."  In this one, the Fox is trying to plant a Victory Garden, but the Crow wants that corn.  With original opening and closing titles, plus  story by Leo Salkin, animation by Phil Duncan, and music by Eddie Kilfeather (and not to mention uncredited voice characterizations by Frank Graham), this cartoon was produced by Dave Fleischer and directed by Bob Wickersham.