"A Silly Symphony"

Release Date January 13, 1934

Synopsis

Closing time at "Ye Olde China Shop" brings the china pieces to life in a series of formal and informal dances, until a china demon threatens to steal the show.

Credits

Director : Wilfred Jackson

Animation : Art Babbitt

Videos

United States

Cartoon Classics : Limited Gold Editions : Silly Symphonies

Germany

Walt Disneys Musikhitparade

Italy

Silly Symphonies

Laserdiscs

Japan

Cartoon Classics : Limited Gold Editions : Silly Symphonies

DVD

United States

Disney Treasures : More Silly Symphonies

Television

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

Mickey's Mouse Tracks : Episode 49

Technical Specifications

Color Type : Technicolor

Animation type : Standard

Sound mix : Mono

Aspect ration : 1.33 : 1

Negative format : 35mm

Print format : 35mm

Cinematograhic process : Spherical

Original language : English

Released by United Artists Pictures

Comments

From Jerry Edwards : As a shopkeeper closes his store for the night, his china pieces come to life. Two Victorian figures dance until a china satyr kidnaps the girl. The boy figure saves the girl, but the fight damages most of the store's china. When the owner returns the next morning and sees the damage, he changes the signs on the china to "antiques" and raises the prices. The cartoon is nicely animated and brightly colored - but nothing all that special happens in it for me.

From Matthew Cooper : I have written a comment on "The Clock Store" short too, and in it I said that it was very simillar to this cartoon. Anyway, I just love this short! (I have since I saw it in third-grade.) The reasons I like this catoon are very good ones, they are as follows: the colors (this would definetly not have worked in black and white,) the music (great music choices for each part) and the artwork (the way the backgrounds change as the parts do, like when the male-Victorian figrure is fighting the centaur, all the china in the background is gasping and later cracked and broken.) to sum it up, I find it amazing that I loved this short at age 7 and still have it on my favorites list at age 53!

100% awsome, no doubt

Referenced Comments

The Clock Store (1931)

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