Studio: Famous Studios
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Produced by: Sam Buchwald
Short Synopsis
A tiny boy, no bigger than a thumb, is the smallest member of a household where size is everything, mocked by the children and underfoot to the adults. When the household is threatened, in the manner of the fairy tales the Noveltoons liked to borrow, the mite is the one who saves it, using his size to go where the big people cannot and his wits to make up for his lack of strength, and the film ends with the smallest person proved the most useful, as the title's pun on "might makes right" promises. Documentation of the film beyond the series filmography is thin, and the account above is a summary of its premise as the cartoon presents it rather than a scene-by-scene synopsis.
Why It Matters
- It is one of the Bill Tytla Noveltoons, and Tytla's interest in small, vulnerable characters, which he had shown in Dumbo, suits a thumb-sized hero; Isadore Klein, who wrote it, was a veteran gag man whose fairy-tale scripts for the studio were its most literate.
- The film is in the public domain in the United States, its copyright among the pre-1950 Noveltoons that National Telefilm Associates let lapse, and it was reissued theatrically in September 1955. It is a minor film, but a Tytla film, which is reason enough for the attention it has had from historians.
Notes and Trivia
- Isadore Klein also wrote Popeye's Greek Mirthology and several Screen Songs.
- Tytla left Famous Studios in the 1950s to direct commercials.
- See also: The Bored Cuckoo (1948), The Wee Men (1947), Tom Thumb (1936).