![]() ![]() He creates a motorized vehicle for one kid by fastening a vacuum cleaner to the front of a high-chair on wheels! You’ve all seen it – but just in case, here’s the link. Next up, Christmas Comes But Once a Year (Fleischer, Paramount, Color Classic (Grampy), 12/4/36, Dave Fleischer, dir., Seymour Kneitel/William Henning, anim.) – In eccentric inventor Grampy’s only appearance in Technicolor, he creates a dazzling variety of Christmas toys for an orphanage – out of household items and miscellaneous junk. Well, no red-blooded fireman could resist a chance like this! Flip jumps into the nozzle – but signs of a fight develop inside the bag, leading to Flip being kicked out of the bag, landing in a battered heap atop the vacuum pole, while Kitty’s head and hand emerge from the nozzle, her finger raised in a scolding “Uh Uh” gesture, as we iris out. A second later, the nozzle develops the features of a human mouth – and coughs out Kitty’s panties. The vacuum nozzle turns around, and sucks Kitty into the bag. It miraculously develops the power of flight.įlip and Kitty soar away atop the device, giving each other a big smacking kiss – but this is a pre-code Flip, so its not just going to end there. (Amazing that none of these flames burns through the vacuum bag!) He revives Kitty (using a rolling pin to squeeze smoke rings out of her mouth), then, as we hear offscreen crackles of the flames apparently regrouping, turns the vacuum sideways and pushes it toward the window. The last flame struggles against the pull, but is held in place long enough for Flip to simply extinguish him by spitting. Flip grabs a stick and slashes at the flames – but only succeeds in dividing each flame into two with each swing – he reacts by resignedly shrugging his shoulders to the audience, as if to say, “What you gonna do.” He finally hits upon his masterstroke – grabbing up a vacuum cleaner, he proceeds to suck the flames in one-by-one. Inside a room, Flip finds four flames doing an Indian war dance around the unconscious Kitty. Pulling out a pistol, Flip shoots it in the belly, and it keels over and fades away. Inside the apartment house, Flip battles with the smoke, which takes on humanized form. Click to enlargeIn that film, Flip plays heroic fireman to the rescue, battling with the usual assortment of hoses that run dry (in one scene, he erroneously grabs the trunk of a lady elephant in place of the hose, and gets a water dousing for his troubles), ladders too short, and interfering victims who just want to be saved, while Flip has his eyes only on the sweet young cat on the top floor – so he unceremoniously dumps each lower-floor victim out the window on his way up – each to be near-missed by the team with the safety net below. ![]()
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