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The Sunshine Makers is a 1935 animated short film directed by Burt Gillett and Ted Eshbaugh, reissued and sponsored by the food and beverage producer Borden in 1940.[1][2] It was originally released as a part of the Rainbow Parade series, produced by Van Beuren Studios.[3]

The Sunshine Makers
Directed by	Burt Gillett Ted Eshbaugh (both credited on the original issue)
Produced by	Amadee J. Van Beuren
Starring	Gus Wickie
Music by	Winston Sharples
Animation by	Character animation: Pete Burness Thomas Goodman Isadore Klein Bill Littlejohn Hicks Lokey Jack Zander (all uncredited) Assistant character animation: Lou Appet Bill Carney (both uncredited)
Layouts by	Ink and paint: Sadie Bodin and Phil Klein (both uncredited)
Backgrounds by	Art Bartsch (uncredited)
Color process	In: Cinecolor (two-strip, credited on the original issue)
Production company	Van Beuren Studios
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures Borden
Release date	January 11, 1935

Plot

Five red-dressed cheerful gnomes come out of their houses singing a song praising the Sun while marching up the hill. They go inside and bottle sunlight into a special milk. One of the gnomes rides a cart pulled by a cricket and sings a song and puts the bottles by the door and takes the scroll. A grumpy blue-dressed top-hat-wearing goblin shoots the hat off the gnome with a bow and arrow and the hat flies to a tree. Another arrow flies over the gnome's head, and the gnome throws a bottle at the goblin, who ends up having sunshine on his back and runs back home to the goblin swamp.

At the dark swamp, a small group of goblins sing a gloomy song "We're happy when we're sad. We're always feeling bad." An owl alerts the goblins of the incoming danger of sunlight and the goblins run into their houses. The afflicted goblin buries his shirt in the ground and bangs on a gong. The goblins get sprayers to erase the sunshine's power outside the swamp with toxins. One of the gnomes toots a horn and the rest of the gnomes use bottles to shoot them through a cannon at the goblins. The milk bottles fly everywhere, a vulture turns into a jay, and the goblins run to their houses. The gnomes on dragonflies drop bottles and make a fountain of water that brightens up the goblins' swamp. The gnomes struggle to get the goblins into the fountain, with one protesting "I don't wanna be happy. I wanna be sad." The goblins drink its milk and the gnomes and now-happy goblins start singing together.[4]

References

External links

• The short film The Sunshine Makers is available for free download at the Internet Archive.
• The Sunshine Makers at IMDb
• The Sunshine Makers on Vimeo

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