π Overview:
In Happy-Go-Luckies a pair of ukulele-strumming railroad hoboes fake their way into a dog show and make off with the prize loot. βTwo heads are better than oneβ is the moral. To modern eyes, our trickster duo may look like two dogsβin the show they pretend to be one long dogβbut audiences of the β20s would have recognized a dog-and-cat team. The black body, white face, and sharp ears would have been most familiar from the greatest jazz-era trickster cat, Felix. Dogs and catsβmuch easier to animate than humansβwere everywhere in silent cartoons. Terry, like most early film animators, had begun as a newspaper cartoonist, and his first strip, working with his brother as a teenager for the San Francisco Call, was about the adventures of a dog named Alonzo.
π Languages Available:
English
π Date Released:
1923-11-23
β Running Time:
7 mins
β Vote Average:
5.0