"A Silly Symphony"

Release Date December 16, 1929

Running Time 5:56

Synopsis

A village of dwarfs dance and play through their day.

Credits

Director : Walt Disney

Animation : Les Clark

Music : Carl Stalling

Videos

Cartoon Classics : First Series : Volume 13 : Silly Symphonies - Fanciful Fables

Laserdiscs

Cartoon Classics : First Series : Volume 13 : Silly Symphonies - Fanciful Fables

DVD

United States

Disney Treasures : More Silly Symphonies

Television

The Ink and Paint Club : #24 : Symphonic Silly Symphonies

Technical Specifications

Color Type : Black and White

Animation type : Standard

Sound mix : Cinephone; mono

Aspect ration : 1.33 : 1

Negative format : 35mm

Print format : 35mm

Cinematographic process : Spherical

Original language : English

Released by Columbia Pictures

Gallery

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Comments

A Silly Symphony

Released in 16mm under the title "The Little Elves."

Contains an interesting experiment in surrealism (the dwarfs get drunk) which prefigures a similar scene in the feature film "Dumbo".

From Jerry Edwards : Bearded, small "insect-size" men with pointed hats do a very long dance routine - not very interesting after the first few seconds. Some of the movements are very similar to the skeletons in The Skeleton Dance. I enjoyed the gag of a "blacksmith" putting "horse" shoes on a grasshopper. Some fun ideas but the dance routines just go on, and on, and on ...

From Steven : If Max Fleischer made a Disney cartoon,it would have probably been like this. This has to be the most surreal Disney cartoon ever. This cartoon has its moments, but it's a bit boring. I give it a 6 out of 10.