The story of Tom Thumb as told by Famous Studios. Unable to help his father around the farm, Tom Thumb decides to run away and join the circus. Release October 15, 1948 (Per IMDB) Directed by Bill Tytla
That’s the one. I just found my copy of it and was looking up the cartoons from it. What a special throwback that DVD is; I watched it all the time as a kid in the 2000s!
@RJRanke----Yes!!! I remember that cartoon too! Tom lived with his full-size, burly, and adoring lumberjack dad who had a beard. In the 'toon, Tom ran away (or something like that) and the dad thought he was dead. It was quite the dramatic tear-jerker, as I recall. I would LOVE to see that cartoon again. It made me very emotional as a kid... because Tom was sooo cute and the dad was so kind and loving.
Originally released by Paramount (you can barely see the studio logo before the "Noveltoon" title appears on screen at :16). Cecil{e} Roy, who was previously the voice of the studio's "Little Lulu", is "Tom's" voice here.
Naturally, NTA just covered up "Copyright 1948 by Paramount Pictures, Inc.", 'sygo'. If the notice had been one unbroken line, "All Rights Reserved" would have been eliminated as well. The narrator, incidentally, is radio announcer Charles Irving (he did a lot of ABC's New York shows at the time), who also narrated several "Screen Songs" as well.
