"A Silly Symphony"
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.
Characters
- China Shop Storekeeper
- China Shop Clock
- Three Monkeys
- The Beer Steins
- China Boy
- China Girl
- China Demon
- China Ostrich
- China Peacock
Credits
- Director : Wilfred Jackson
- Animation
- Art Babbitt
- Frenchy de Tremaudan
Videos
- United States
- Cartoon Classics : Limited Gold Editions : Silly Symphonies
- Germany
- Walt Disneys Musikhitparade
- Italy
- Gold Editions : Silly Symphonies
- 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 ratio : 1.33 : 1
- Negative format : 35mm
- Print format : 35mm
- Cinematograhic process : Spherical
- Original language : English
Released by United Artists Pictures
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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.
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 cartoon 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)
- The Flying Mouse (1934)
