Friday 21 September 2018

That Baby's Coming Right at Us!

A story with a crying baby flies right at the audience in Shuffle Off to Buffalo, a 1933 Merrie Melodies cartoon produced by Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising with animation credits to Friz Freleng and Paul J. Smith.



This sort of “camera swallowing” was common in the late ‘20s and into the ‘30s at the Walt Disney studio, whence Harman, Ising and Freleng came.

What storks and babies have to do with Buffalo, I don’t know.

Other than the title tune and the opening theme “Get Happy,” the only song is “When I’m The President” by Al Lewis and Al Sherman.
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  1. EOCostello22 September 2018 at 05:25

    The very thin connection is that babies are the products of honeymoons to Niagara Falls (the latter being the point of the song). This may be Captain Obvious-ism, I recognize.

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    1. C.L. Young23 September 2018 at 17:42

      Yeah, a Captain Obvious-ism for those who've heard of it.

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