You can’t appreciate the animation in the frame grabs, as the animals sways and staggers. But you can appreciate the rubber-hose drawings that Disney would soon shy away from.
Author David Gerstein, who knows this kind of stuff, points out this is a partial remake of Oswald’s Harem Scarem(1928), which includes a drunken camel.
That's right, and the animation drawings for that sequence survive today. Some years ago, D23 in part due to my suggestion had a section of them filmed:
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The entire sequence is even crazier than in Mickey, and the camel slightly more humanized (like the ostrich in GALLOPIN' GAUCHO, he emerges from a tavern with a beer stein).
PORKY IN EGYPT provided the definitive drunken camel (although in Humpty Bumpty's case, it was just the heat).
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