As a kid, I had a VHS tape with a few old cartoons on it that I would watch constantly. My favorite cartoon was Somewhere in Dreamland, a 1936 short produced by Max Fleischer.
A brother and sister walk through town collecting wood and return home to their mother who unfortunately can't afford to give them a nice dinner.
The children fall asleep that night and dream of a land filled with new clothes, candy, ice cream, popcorn, and toys.
They wake up in the morning to find a huge feast has been prepared for them by the merchants in town who had seen them collecting wood the day before.
I loved this cartoon so much when I was a kid that I used to construct my own miniature "candy dreamland" out of construction paper and milk cartons. I looked everywhere for that old VHS tape and couldn't find it so I was pretty excited when I found it on YouTube and I knew I just had to share this little gem with all of you. Enjoy!
I loved this as a kid too! Yay for YouTube allowing us to relieve childhood memories :)
ReplyDeleteI'm so happy to see that someone else remembers it!
DeleteI hadn't thought of this in ages!! I used to beg my mom to watch it.....so cute!
ReplyDeleteYay! Someone else who watched it! I thought I was the only one! :)
Deleteawww! i had completely forgotten about this cartoon. i had it on vhs too and used to watch it over and over again. such a great little cartoon and story. thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteAww, I remember this. I had a tape with this, and I think something about a chicken in the Middle East?
ReplyDeleteI love this one too! Do you remember, or have you seen, the water babies one? So many little nekked babies playing in the water, riding swans and sleeping in flowers???
ReplyDeleteI don't remember that one at all! I wonder if it was also on my VHS tape. Haha.
DeleteI remember this cartoon, I used to love it too!
ReplyDeleteDid this vhs come in an orange cardboard cover and have casper on it too? The one I had did and I am hoping someone knows the other cartoons on it. It was one of my favourites.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds very familiar! I remember the VHS tape had more than one cartoon on it and I believe one was Casper. Unfortunately, I can't remember any of the other cartoons though.
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