Farmyard Symphony (1938)
- Directed by
- Jack Cutting
- Genre
- animated cartoon
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 8 min
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.5 of 10 from 39 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This animated short uses classical music to show animals on a farm acting in tune with the music. One spotlight is a piglet who keeps searching for food, which creates a running joke.
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What happens
Farmyard Symphony is a 1938 Silly Symphonies animated short film. It can be seen as a precursor to Fantasia due to using various pieces of classical music in one short. The film was directed by Jack Cutting and produced by Walt Disney. An adaptation of the short was featured in the Silly Symphony comic strip over six weeks, from October 23 to November 27, 1938, around the time of the film's theatrical release. While the short doesn't have much of a story, the comic adaptation expands on a running gag involving a piglet looking for food, giving one of the piglets distinctive markings and a name (Spotty), and turns the gag into a short narrative. Spotty Pig also appeared in a nine-page story in the Silly Symphonies comic book issue #2 (1953). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Ain't We Got Fun (1937)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.