A Coach for Cinderella
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A Coach for Cinderella is a 1936 Technicolor cartoon Ephemeral film based on the Cinderella fairy tale. It's actually an advertisement for Chevrolet. It starts off with Cinderella wishing to have a better life, away from her evil stepsisters. A bunch of dwarfs decide to help Cinderella by making her a car that she can travel in. They use various things around the forest. They then put though the "modernizer" and it comes out as a new chevrolet. Cinderella then goes out to the ball in the new chevrolet, with the rest of the story told by the sequel A Ride for Cinderella. The cartoon was made by the Jam Handy Organization. It is in the Public Domain.
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- Chevrolet
- Jam Handy
- Fairy tales
- A Ride for Cinderella
- Advertising
- Ephemeral film
- Peg-Leg Pedro
- The Princess and the Pauper
- Down the Gasoline Trail