
Having worked with Geisel successfully on the “Private Snafu” series for WWII soldiers, the author and the artists knew each other – and Bob Clampett directed this now classic adaptation in 1942.

cartoon studio made it a natural fit for the staff to create one of their only cartoons based on a copyrighted, outside property. Theodor Seuss Geisel’s long association with the Warner Bros. LP Reissues: MGM Children’s Series CH- MGM Leo The Lion CH-1013 (Side Two: Lionel Barrymore Narrates Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves) MGM Records L4-A (10” 78 RPM / 2 Discs / Mono) The best-selling book about the egg-sitting pachyderm is still in print, and so is one of two vintage recorded adaptations-both of which features the same distinguished narrator.
