Expectorating For Your Convenience

Goats generally eat everything in an animated cartoon, but not in the Toby the Pup short Hallowe’en by the Charles Mintz studio. In this scene, a goat chews on a table, but spits out the wood to form a little footstool it can rest on.



The goat finishes the scene with a little comedy bray (is that what goats do?).



The scene is sandwiched in between animation of Toby playing the piano as various animals sway. Toby’s finger technique is excellent considering this is a 1930 cartoon. It’s actually a fun little short, with a witch pulling the skeleton out of a bird and other things like that. I suspect these frames are from a Thunderbean restoration.

Dick Huemer and Sid Marcus get a “by” credit “in collaboration with Art Davis.”