One little sequence has Calloway’s voice coming out of a spectre cat.
Suddenly spectre kittens pop up behind her and start feeding off her. The mother cat shrinks.
The mother cat hands them a milk bottle with four nipples. They continue to grow but she dies.
Willard Bowsky and Ralph Somerville receive the animation credits
Bowsky's unit was the one most into surreal/disturbing gags and images, and unlike some of the latter forays into those areas at Famous Studios, you can tell they got a kick out of the idea of unnerving the kiddies in the audience a little bit (Willard's updated, underwater color version of the Cab Calloway mystery cave would be the one in 1939's "Small Fry", where the graphics designs/selections are surprisingly modern for a Fleischer short, but aren't as visually noticable due to the crappy NTA prints in circulation).
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