Studio: The Charles Mintz Studio
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Produced by: Charles Mintz
Short Synopsis
It is winter, and Krazy Kat drives a horse-drawn sleigh through the snow to his girlfriend's house to take her skating. She calls from the window that she can't come out: her door is buried under a drift. Krazy and his horse dig her out, and the two ride off to a frozen lake. They lace up their skates and glide around the ice, smoothly and gracefully, until Krazy collides with a wooden barrel, loses control, overshoots the edge of the lake and goes careering down a snowy slope. He gathers snow as he tumbles until he is buried in a growing mound, and the rest of the outing becomes a run of winter gags on the slopes, whose final punchline is not described in sources this book could check.
Why It Matters
- The skating scene is the high point: Krazy and his girlfriend glide in neat, rhythmic figures across the ice before the barrel collision sends everything tumbling. It is a good example of the smooth, musical pantomime the Mintz studio gave Krazy in the early sound years.
- The film shows how far Columbia's Krazy Kat had travelled from George Herriman's comic strip. Krazy is now a conventional cartoon boyfriend with a girlfriend of his own, a world away from the strip's lovelorn, brick-dodging oddity, a change that tells the story of how studio cartoons absorbed and flattened newspaper characters in the 1930s.
Notes and Trivia
- The film was reissued under the title Alaska Daze.
- It is included in the Columbia Cartoon Collection, volumes 3 and 12.
- See also: Krazy Kat Goes A-Wooing (1916).