Their hopes of raising the mortgage money for Mother Widow Peep are dashed when their boss finds out they’ve made a mistake and instead of making 600 wooden soldiers at one foot tall, they’ve made 100 soldiers at six feet tall.Īlthough these soldiers don’t technically come to life, they do come to the rescue when the Bogeymen attack Toyland and Stannie and Ollie are redeemed. Its greatest draw is in the starring roles of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as Stannie Dum and Ollie Dee, employees of Santa’s workshop. It’s a version of Victor Herbert’s 1903 musical ( Babes In Toyland), well known to Americans, as it airs annually in almost every state either on Thanksgiving or during the Christmas holidays.
This is one of the oldest of our film examples.
They’re a popular theme, the tin type being the action figures of their era, and perhaps allowing their adventures to be a bit more daring than the average toy. This is only the first among four titles here that feature soldiers as the main animated childhood objects of attention.
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