"A Silly Symphony"
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 : Fanciful Fables
Laserdiscs
- Cartoon Classics : 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 : Mono ; Cinephone
- Aspect ration : 1.37 : 1
- Negative format : 35mm
- Print format : 35mm
- Cinematographic process : Spherical
- Original language : English
Released by Columbia Pictures, Inc.
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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".
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 ...
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.