Schools Can't Dance

Van Beuren’s Good Old Schooldays (1930) follows the path laid down by Walt Disney in the earliest Mickey Mouses—animals play tunes with make-shift instruments. This one also tosses in any school references the staff could think of.

The cartoon ends with the school house growing into the sky to the sounds of the music.



The school house dances and crashes to the ground. The students run away in a 16-frame cycle to end the short.



The post-script is typical. Someone gets clobbered after reading the Aesop “quote.”

Tom and Jerry’s Piano Tooners (1932) has a growing theatre at the end, while The Tuba Tooter (also 1932) has the upper part of an apartment building bulging out.

John Foster and Manny Davis are credited on this Aesop’s Fable with the score by Gene Rodemich.