A Bird Dog

The Fleischer cartoons of the early ‘30s always seem to have throwaway gags popping up out of nowhere or some wild, creative imagery. Here’s an example of the last one in the Screen Song Let’s All Sing Like the Birdies Sing (1934). A hungry kitty is after a little bird.



Pan up to birds in a tree.



They go into formation. They form a dog! (Yes, a bird dog for you punners out there).



They fly down to the ground, re-form as a barking dog and frighten the cat away.



The next scene is even weirder, as another cat climbs up clothesline, falls into a sock and drops to the ground, looking like a snake.

“Listen to the Mockingbird” accompanies the sequences.

Myron Waldman and Tom Johnson are given the revolving “animated by” credit.