Mirror Images

The Mickey Mouse short The Whoopee Party (1932) has a lot of cycle animation dancing, and Uncle Walt manages to fill the screen with the left side being the mirror animation of the right side.

Some examples.



There is also some animation where characters dance in unison.



It’s cool seeing furniture come to life and dancing, but the cartoon’s pretty lame otherwise. There’s no story at all, Pinto Colvig’s constant Goofy laugh gets grating after a while, and the mirror animation strikes me as a cost-saver.

Wilfred Jackson directed this one.