Who can watch that for seven minutes? Even in 1930?
The cartoon gets a plot about half-way through. Clouds dancing to the tunes smash their butts together to create lightning that begins burning down the forest.
A fox with a squeak-toy voice runs to Playful Pan to get his help to put out the fire. After all, his music started the whole thing.
He gets an idea. He plays a tune that gets the flames (with little legs) to dance their way into a lake and commit suicide.
We cut to a little flame bringing up the rear; Friz Freleng used the same concept for gags in later cartoons at Warners. Pan’s music still can’t get the flame to jump in the lake, so the little goat-boy smashes him into pieces and uses his flute as a fire extinguisher to put out each piece.
A lot of good it does. The forest has been burned down. Pan fades out to end the cartoon.
Disney appears to be trying for something a little more elaborate by filling the screen with characters. The action is animated on ones.
Given the rings on the tail, and the mask around the eyes, I think that's a raccoon asking Pan for help, not a fox, though we see a fox with its brush on fire a little bit earlier.
ReplyDeleteYeah, E.O. I see what you mean. The mask is really hard to see, and the snout and ears don't remind me of a raccoon, but you're right.
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