Return with us now to 1931…
4 to 5 million Americans are unemployed.
The Empire State Building opens.
Thomas Edison applies for his final patent…and dies.
The Scottsboro Boys are arrested.
In Nevada, gambling is legalized.
Frankenstein hits theaters.
…and the first Scrappy cartoon appears.
How would you describe scrappy?
In my Gandmother’s things I found a spool flim roll entitled
“Scrappy” in “Some Fight”. Can you tell me anything about it?
Hi, Susan. “Some Fight” is a home movie version of a 1934 Scrappy cartoon called “Scrappy’s Television.” Like many movies sold for home viewing, it is dramatically cut down, to less than half the original length, and whoever did the cutting chose to focus on the boxing scene from the original. Both the theatrical version and “Some Fight” are available for viewing on YouTube.
—Harry