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Holiday Land
Holiday Land is a 1934 American animated short film that was nominated at the 1934 Academy Awards for Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film but lost to "The Tortoise and the Hare". It was made by Screen Gems.
Summary.
Scrappy, a young boy, wakened by his alarm clock, does not want to get up and go to school. Tossing in his bed, he wishes that "today was a holiday." The wind blows pages off his wall calendar, which produce "
Studio became known as the Mintz Studio after he took over in 1929. In 1939, a few months before his death, Screen Gems after Columbia Pictures took over from him. Walt Disney mentioned in an interview that Mintz cultivated his standards for high-quality cartoon movies, and he kept emphasizing them even after their contract ended.
Mintz was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Short Subject. His first nomination was in 1935 for "Holiday Land", and he was nominated again in 1938 for "The Little Match