Almost Bunny Slippers

A sentry on the mountain has told warn the townspeople of The Old Man of the Mountain in the cartoon of the same name.

He grabs a pair of rabbits from his hut. This being a Fleischer cartoon, the rabbits morph into something else. In this case, roller skates.

It appears skating isn’t fast enough. The rabbits gallop like race horses.

Showing how things haven’t changed, there is a pothole in the main road in the nearest town.

It’s a shame the lion’s mane doesn’t flap toward the camera like a bird. It goes upward instead, the lion goes downward into the hole, and the scene is over.

The highlight is the song by Cab Calloway. Like Betty Boop’s Snow White (also made with Calloway in 1933), there’s a great background painting with skulls and menacing faces. Unlike Snow White, the ending’s pretty weak. The Old Man’s nose gets tied in a knot and, well, that’s it for this cartoon.

Bernie Wolf, soon at Iwerks, and Tom Johnson are the credited animators.