{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = Granite Hotel | image = | alt = | caption = | director = Dave Fleischer | producer = Max Fleischer<br />Adolph Zukor | story = George Manuell | screenplay = | based_on = <!-- {{based on|title of the original work|writer of the original work}} --> | narrator = | starring = Jack Mercer | music = Sammy Timberg | cinematography = | editing = | studio = Fleischer Studios | distributor = Paramount Pictures | released = {{Film date|1940|04|26|U.S.}} | runtime = 6 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = | gross = }}
'''''Granite Hotel''''' is a 1940 American animated short film directed by Dave Fleischer.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |page=139}}</ref> Released in April of that year, it was the fourth in the ''Stone Age Cartoons'' series.<ref>Graham Webb. ''The animated film encyclopedia: a complete guide to American shorts, features and sequences 1900-1979'', p198. {{ISBN|078640728X}}, {{ISBN|9780786407286}}. McFarland, 2000.</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Motion picture herald, Volume 139, Issues 1-6|year=1940|publisher=Quigley Pub. Co.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AaIcAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Granite+Hotel%22,+Fleischer}}</ref> The film is now in public domain.<ref>{{cite web|last=staff|title=Fleischer|url=http://retrofilmvault.com/publicdomaincartoons/index.html|publisher=retrofilmvault|access-date=March 16, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111208224325/http://retrofilmvault.com/publicdomaincartoons/index.html|archive-date=December 8, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Plot summary== Set in a modern Stone Age time, the viewer is presented to a gallery of characters like a telephone operator, the ventriloquist "Edgar Burgundy" and his doll "Charlie Bacardi" (a play on Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy) and a barber. A guest in need of a chess player calls the fire department who arrives riding a sauropod.<ref>José Luis Sanz. ''Starring T. rex!: Dinosaur Mythology and Popular Culture'', p31. {{ISBN|0253341531}}, {{ISBN|9780253341532}}. Indiana University Press, 2002.</ref>
==Cast== * Jack Mercer
===Characters=== * Newsboy * Hotel Clerk * Charlie Bacardi * Monkey's Uncle * Bejeweled Guest * Barbered Guest * Cold Guest * Checker Player * Bathing Guest * Telephone Operator
==See also== * List of films featuring dinosaurs
==References== <references/>
==External links== * {{IMDb title|id=0032549|title=Granite Hotel}}
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