Granite Hotel

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| name = Granite Hotel

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| director = Dave Fleischer

| producer = Max Fleischer
Adolph Zukor

| story = George Manuell

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| starring = Jack Mercer

| music = Sammy Timberg

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| studio = Fleischer Studios

| distributor = Paramount Pictures

| released = {{Film date|1940|04|26|U.S.}}

| runtime = 6 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

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Granite Hotel is a 1940 American animated short film directed by Dave Fleischer.{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |page=139}} Released in April of that year, it was the fourth in the Stone Age Cartoons series.Graham Webb. The animated film encyclopedia: a complete guide to American shorts, features and sequences 1900-1979, p198. {{ISBN|078640728X}}, {{ISBN|9780786407286}}. McFarland, 2000.{{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}} The film is now in public domain.{{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}}

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.José Luis Sanz. Starring T. rex!: Dinosaur Mythology and Popular Culture, p31. {{ISBN|0253341531}}, {{ISBN|9780253341532}}. Indiana University Press, 2002.