Merbabies (1938)

Directed by

Vernon Stallings, Rudolf Ising, Wilfred Jackson

Genre

fantasy film, animated cartoon

Country

United States

Runtime

8 min

Rated

NR

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 41 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.

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How it feels

Underwater babies frolic in a fantasy ocean. They learn to swim, play with sea creatures, and put on a show.

whimsicalplayfullightheartedgentledreamlikemusicalcheerful

What happens

Merbabies is a Silly Symphonies animated Disney short film. It was released on December 9, 1938. It is a collaboration between Walt Disney and Harman and Ising and the first to involve the duo in a decade; Harman and Ising had worked for Disney for his Oswald the Lucky Rabbit series before leaving for Warner Bros. Pictures. Harman and Ising also donated artists to Disney to work on the production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). It is one of the last shorts of the Silly Symphonies series. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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• More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.