Let’s check out a mouse from the start of the Fleischer Screen Song A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight (1930). The mouse’s arms and legs wave around, spaghetti-like. The mouse even stretches out his nose.
He turns his tail into a spring.
Next, he stretches and curls his neck, then blows air over the rolled-up poster he's carrying.
Having hung up the poster, he congratulates himself. Another mouse pulls him inside the Town Hall, leaving shoes behind. The shoes then follow him back into the building to end the scene.
Dave Fleischer gets the only screen credit.
The early Screen Songs have lots of imagination (and Billy Murray). They deserve restoration.
Yowp. While it is true that most of the Fleischer cartoons from 1929-1930 (and again from 1931-1932) didn’t contain that much screen credits minus Dave Fleischer and some other musical personnel (the singer for the screen songs later on) and musical advisor, Max Manne. This particular cartoon credits the animator. Seymour Kneitel, who would later become one of the top brass working for Famous/Paramount until his death in 1964. The print does blur his name tho
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