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Speaking of the Weather
''Speaking of the Weather'' is an animated cartoon short in the ''Merrie Melodies'' series produced by Leon Schlesinger for Warner Bros.. Released to theaters on September 4, 1937, it was directed by Frank Tashlin and animated by Joe D'Igalo and Volney White. It was reissued into the "Blue Ribbon Classics" series in January 1945.
The film centers around literary figures coming to life — a basic theme that Tashlin would later use in the subsequent shorts ''Have You Got Any Castles?'' and ''You're an Education'', both released in 1938. Collectively, the films are commonly referred to by WB cartoon fans as the "Tashlin Three."
== Plot ==
In a closed drugstore at midnight, the characters from all of the books and magazines are coming to life.
At the beginning of the film, "Bob Boins" (Bob Burns) introduces Ted Lewis who is seen playing ''Plenty of Money and You'', which segues into a caricature of orchestra conductor Leopold Stokowski leading the ''Storm'' movement from the ''William Tell Overture''. After this, the title song is sung by a girl trio caricaturing the Boswell Sisters on the cover of ''Radioland'' magazine; all the while, Hugh Herbert is seen repeatedly smiling and adjusting his necktie. A bullish criminal on the cover of ''The Gang Magazine'', distracted at the sound of the sisters' performance, sneaks about and decides to use a blowtorch from the cover of ''Popular Mechanics'' to break into a safe on the cover of ''The Magazine of Wall Street''. He is discovered by detective "Cholly Jam" (Charlie Chan), and after explaining himself to the police on the cover of ''True Confessions'', he is tried, and sentenced to ''Life''. However, he decides to escape through the cover of ''Liberty''; but his escape does not go unnoticed when he is reported by the famous columnist and radio reporter Walter Winchell (here caricatured as "Walter Snitchall"), which then leads to a wide variety of characters, including police officers, Boy Scouts, wild animals, and native Zulu tribesmen, joining the chase. ''The Thin Man'' (a caricature of William Powell, who got an Academy Award nomination for playing the role) uses Asta from the cover of ''Dog World'' to detect the criminal on the cover of ''Better Babies'', and the criminal gives chase on the carriage, only to be assailed by everyone from Navy battleships to Greta Garbo and even Saint Nicholas. He ultimately ends up imprisoned in the bars on the cover of ''Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing'', and when Herbert laughs, the criminal uses a globe from the cover of a ''World Almanac'' to hit him in the head. At iris-out, it turns out he has stolen Herbert's laugh himself.
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