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Hey, is everybody else crazy about the 1930’s version of space travel, too? I just love the chubby little football shaped rocket ships depression-era audiences demanded in their comic strips, movie serials and, of course, animated cartoons.

In “Dancing on the Moon” (1935), a bunch of honeymooning animals take a midnight excursion on one such vehicle, and the thing sputters through the stratosphere to the strains of the catchy title tune (another triumph by those animated hit makers, Charlie Tobias and Murray Mencher.) Since this is a Max Fleischer Color Classic, there are plenty of great 3-D special effects — and and a little vinegar mixed into the oh-so-cute cartoon ambience. It seems to me the nominal hero and heroine, a he-cat and she-cat, might have considered a trip to couples counseling before any inter-steller planet hopping.

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