"A Silly Symphony"

Synopsis

Residents of the South Pole, including an amorous pair of penguins, dance and frolic in a Technicolor fantasyland. The "heavy", a large, hungry shark, is finally outwitted by our romantic hero.

Characters

Peter Penguin

Polly Penguin

Blowfish (unnamed)

Shark (unnamed)

Credits

Director : Wilfred Jackson

Animation

Hamilton Luske

Art Babbitt

Frenchy de Tremaudan

Gerry Geronomi

Videos

United States

Cartoon Classics : First Series : Volume 13 : Animal Tales

Cartoon Classics : Second Series : Volume 8 : Starring Silly Symphonies

Germany

Micky Liebt Minnie

Italy

Topolino and Co. : Avventure Tutte da Ridere

Silly Symphonies Volume 1

Topolino e Minnie Innamorati

Laserdiscs

United States

Silly Symphonies / Animals Two by Two

Cartoon Classics : Animal Tales

Japan

Mickey Loves Minnie

DVD

Disney Treasures : Silly Symphonies

Region 1 : United States

Region 2 : France

Region 2 : Germany

Region 2 : Italy

Region 2 : Sweden

Region 2 : United Kingdom

Cartoon Classics Favorites : Holiday Celebration with Mickey and Pals

Television

The Ink and Paint Club : #18 : A Bunch of Silly Symphonies

Technical Specifications

Color Type : Black and white

Animation type : Standard

Sound mix : Mono

Aspect ratio : 1.37 : 1

Negative format : 35mm

Print format : 35mm

Cinematographic process : Spherical

Original language : English

Released by United Artists Pictures

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Many gags and situations in this one are recycled from 1930's "Arctic Antics."

Peter and Polly Penguin are sweethearts. Tho show his love, Peter captures a fish for her, but Polly is angered when the fish turns out to be a blowfish which causes Polly to look fat when the fish enlarges inside her. Peter is forgiven later when he saves Polly from a shark. OK, but nothing that interesting for me - I just didn't care about the penguins. Nothing else distinctive about the short for me.

This could really have been something. They got the penguins, they got the good animation, but the team behind this Silly Symphony blew it. It's not interesting at all. It's a love story about two young penguins. It would be nice if the had made more focus on the penguins and how they lived. This is just a kliché in new clothes. Not among my Silly Symphony favourites.

This was definately the best short I have ever seen, of course it is also the only one. My favourite part is when the one penguin looks at the other penguin and they start batting their eyes all funny and I just laughed so long and so hard. Everyone should own this short.

I love the part when the big gigantic rock went into the shark's mouth and his belly is a big belly. And the fish blows bubbles at him for the shark being mean to the fish.

I just finished viewing this short and it sure is a good one. I enjoyed some scenes such as when Peter takes an icicle and puts a clump of snow in it making it look like an ice cream cone or in this case a snow cone and the scene where the fish are playing leap "Frog". I also laughed at the part where Polly smacks and "Yells" at Peter after he's given her a blowfish! Who was that singing at the begining and end of this cartoon?

Perculiar Penguins is a fun, musical short. This cartoon includes many fun gags relating to penguins and the antarctic.

Here are some of my favorites:

1. Peter gives Polly an ice cream cone. The cone was an icecicle, and the ice cream was snow.

2. Polly eats a blowfish, and she continuously puffs up.

3. Peter is swimming with a school of fish that ends up in the shark's mouth, which is held open by a stick. Then, the school of fish escapes with Peter riding on the tail of the last of the fish in the back of the line.

I give this short a 9 out of 10. Recommended, especially to people who like penguins.

The one part I love was when the rock fell into the sharks mouth, and was so heavy he couldn't move! Too bad we never found out what happened to him though.

Even though this short isn't very Christmasey, it's still featured in volume 8 of Disney's Classic Cartoon Favorites collection back in 2005. (The colorized version of Mickey's Good Deed from 1991 and Toy Tinkers from 1949 are the only real Christmas-related shorts in that disc!) All seven shorts in it are still fun to watch! But let's get back to this one. My Daddy once told me shark are cold-blooded and they can't live down in Antarctica! The shark in this short must have been warm-blooded. In a later short from 1939, Sea Scouts, the shark in that one looked similar to the one in this short... except he was growling like a bear. Any marriage should be like Polly and Peter's; their love was eternal and complete and promised to NEVER cheat. (as the ending song went.) This Silly Symphony is a masterpiece compared to 2005's March of The Penguins! I hope you enjoy this penguin love story, because my family and I sure do!

The tune to "Peculiar Penguins" is pretty colorful. Since a lot of Disney shorts were often uncredited, I do not think we know who the duet was who sang the tune. But, it was indeed stylish, colorful, and fit the tune nicely.