What if StudioCanal is founded in 1937?/The Halloween Tales

The Halloween Tales is a 1950 American animated anthology film produced by Stanley Carls Productions for Republic Pictures. It features five stories that relates to Halloween. It also live action scenes before introducing to each animated segments.

It stars Mel Blanc in the role of a widowed father of two children.

Plot
On the night of Halloween, an widowed father tells five different Halloween stories to his children before putting them to bed before the arrival of Jack-O-Lantern.

Stories
The two love rivals are invited to the van Tassel Halloween party where Brom tries to swap a plump woman for Katrina who is dancing with Ichabod, as well as trying to make Ichabod fall through a trapdoor but both attempts backfire. While both men dine, Brom catches Ichabod accidentally knocking the salt shaker over and nervously tossing salt over his shoulder. Discovering Ichabod's weakness, he decides to sing the tale of the legendary Headless Horseman who was apparently killed by a cannonball in a recent conflict and travels one night each year while searching for a head to replace the one he had lost and that the only way to escape the ghost is to cross an old covered bridge over a brook. Everyone else, including Katrina, finds this amusing while Ichabod, on the other hand, starts to fear for his life.
 * The Flying Witch - TBD.
 * Halloween Pie - The segment focuses about TBF.
 * Halloween in Summer - TBD.
 * The Little Pumpkin Patch - a story about a pumpkin patch who comes to life and explorers the world around and then being brought over to a young boy for Halloween.
 * The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - a comical retelling of Washington Irving's classic story about a lanky, superstitious yet charming dandy arrives in Sleepy Hollow, a small village north of Clark summit that is renowned for its ghostly hauntings, to be the town's new schoolmaster. Despite his odd behavior, appearance, and effeminate mannerisms, Ichabod soon wins the hearts of the village's women and forms good friendships with his students. Brom Bones, the roguish town hero, does his best to bully Ichabod. However, he is very good at ignoring these taunts and continues to interact with the townspeople. Ichabod then falls in love with Katrina van Tassel, the beautiful daughter and only child of Baltus van Tassel, who is the richest man in the village (unlike in most films, Katrina does not have spoken dialogue in this segment). Despite the fact that he is falling in love with her, Ichabod mainly desires to take her family's money for himself. Brom, who is also in love with her, proceeds to compete with the schoolmaster. Ichabod wins Katrina over at every opportunity, although, unbeknownst to him, Katrina, who thinks Brom is too sure of himself, is only using Ichabod to make Brom jealous and force him to try harder for her affections.

On his way home from the party, Ichabod, on his horse, old Gunpowder, becomes paranoid by every animal noise he hears while riding through the dark woods, increasing his fear of the possibility of encountering the Horseman. While traveling through the old cemetery, Ichabod believes he hears the sound of a horse galloping toward him, but discovers the sound is being made by nearby cattails bumping on a log. Relieved, Ichabod begins to laugh with his horse, Gunpowder. However, their laughter is cut short by the appearance of the Headless Horseman, wielding a sword and riding a black horse (that is, suspiciously, identical to Brom's horse). After the being chased through the dark forest, Ichabod, remembering Brom's advice, rides across the covered bridge to stop the ghost's pursuit. However when he turns around, the horseman throws his flaming head, revealed to be a jack-o'-lantern, right at Ichabod's face presumably knocking him out.

The next morning, Ichabod's hat is found at the bridge next to the shattered jack-o-lantern, but Ichabod himself is nowhere to be found. Sometime later, Brom takes Katrina as his bride and they marry. Rumors begin to spread that Ichabod is still alive, married to a wealthy widow in a distant county with children who all look like him. However, the people of Sleepy Hollow insist that he has been "spirited away" by the Headless Horseman. The following additional stories were included in the 1977 release:
 * Halloween is Grinch Night (originally the famous DePatie-Freleng television featurette produced in 1977; the narration is redubbed by Hans Conried, while Hans Conried and Gary Shapiro remain their voices of The Grinch and Euchariah)
 * TBD

Credits

 * A Republic Release
 * Stanley Carls Presents
 * "The Halloween Tales"
 * Color by Technicolor
 * Copyright MCML Stanley Carls Productions, Inc. · All Rights Reserved
 * Based on the story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by: Washington Irving
 * Starring the Talents of (in alphabetical order): Mel Blanc, Bing Crosby, Jimmy Durante, Basil Rathbone, James Whitmore with Tallulah Bankhead, Don Barclay, Bea Benaderet, Pinto Colvig, Hans Conried, Bobby Driscoll, June Foray, Paul Frees, Virginia Gilmore, Richard Haydn, Sterling Holloway, Hattie Jacques, Glynis Johns, Boris Karloff, John McQuade, The Mello Men, Nelson Olmsted, Cyril Ritchard, Terry-Thomas, Les Tremayne, Robert Webber, Ed Wynn
 * Screenplay: Stanley Carls
 * Story: Stanley Carls, Ralph Wright, Lance Nolley, Bob Wickersham, Korney Chukovsky, Erdman Penner, Joe Rinaldi, Winston Hibler
 * Musical Adaptation: Miklos Rozsa
 * Musical Supervisor: Scott Bradley
 * Musical Direction: Oliver Wallace, William Lava, Carl W. Stalling
 * Orchestrations: Milt Franklyn, Joseph Dubin, Leigh Harline
 * Choral Arrangements: Jud Conlon
 * Songs by: Bob Hillard, Sammy Fain, Sammy Cahn, Don Raye, Gene De Paul, Mack David, Jerry Livingston, Al Hoffman, Warren Foster
 * Atmospheric Music Created and Conducted by: Dimitri Tiomkin
 * Character Design: Stanley Carls, Don Towsley, Ted Bonnicksen, Al Coe
 * Layout: Charles Philippi, Hugh Hennesy, McLaren Stewart, Ernest Nordli, A. Kendall O'Connor, Tom Codrick, Nino Carbe, Robert Givens, Al Zinnen, Thor Putnam, Lance Nolley, Don Griffith
 * Color and Styling: Tyrus Wong, Jules Engel, Herbert Klynn, Bob McIntosh, Dick Kelsey
 * Backgrounds: Thelma Witmer, Art Riley, Edward Levitt, Curt Perkins, Brice Mack, Ralph Hulett, Ray Huffine
 * Directing Animators: Graham Place, Stan Quackenbush, Grim Natwick, Myron Waldman, Dave Tendlar, Fred Moore, Art Babbitt, Shamus Culhane, Thomas Johnson, Norman Ferguson
 * Animators: Don Towsley, LaVerne Harding, Paul J. Smith, Edwin Aardal, Murray McClennan, Cliff Nordberg, Hal Ambro, Harvey Toombs, Emery Hawkins, Edward Love, Judge Whitaker, George Nicholas, Otto Feuer, Jerry Hathcock, Bob Carlson, Hugh Fraser, Don Lusk, Marvin Woodward, Tony Pabian, Carl Urbano, Hal King, Retta Scott, Grant Simmons, Ray Patterson
 * Assistant Animators: Barney Posner, Retta Davidson, Ben Solomon, Stod Herbert, Owen Fitzgerald, Tom Ray, Iwao Takamoto
 * Inbetweeners: Bill Weber, John Boersema, Frank Gonzales, Jack Carr
 * Effects Animators: George Rowley, Dan MacManus, Blaine Gibson, Joshua Meador
 * Checking: Irene Wyman, Sherman Glas
 * Inking and Painting: Cecile Miles, Anna Lois Ray, Buf Nerbovig, Mary Jane Cole, Roberta Gruetert
 * Animation Camera: Frank Paiker, Sid Glenar
 * Live-Action Photography: Charles P. Boyle, A.S.C.
 * Technicolor Color Consultant: Henri Jaffa
 * Production Supervisor: Joe Grant
 * Animation Art Director: Ken Anderson
 * Live-Action Art Directors: Charles Nelson, Stephen Goossón
 * Animation Film Editor: John O. Young
 * Live-Action Film Editor: William Hornbeck
 * Music Editor: Al Teeter
 * Assistant Directors: David Hand, Norman Wright
 * Set Decorations: Emile Kuri, Hal Gausman
 * Special Processes: Ub Iwerks
 * Montage Sequences by: Peter Ballbusch
 * Costumes Designed by: Walter Plunkett
 * Hair Styles by: Helen Hunt
 * Make Up by: Robert J. Schiffer
 * Sound Director: C.O. Slyfield
 * Sound Recording: Lovell Norman, Harold J. Steck
 * Approved MPAA Certificate No. 14432
 * This Picture Made Under the Jurisdiction of I.A.T.S.E.-IA, Affiliated with American Federation of Labor
 * Cartoonists
 * RCA Sound Recording
 * Executive Producer: Stanley Carls
 * Produced by: James Pratt
 * Animation Directed by: Stanley Carls
 * Live-Action Directed by: Victor Fleming
 * The Halloween Tales
 * THE END
 * A Stanley Carls Production
 * Made in Hollywood, U.S.A.

Trivia

 * StudioCanal's first animated/live-action hybrid film
 * StudioCanal's first animated package film and its first package film in general
 * StudioCanal's first post-war film
 * StudioCanal's first seasonal film
 * It is the second animated StudioCanal's film to be co-produced with Republic Pictures.