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Movies: Best "silly symphony" Movies


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The Pied Piper(1933)

NR
| 8min | Animation
3.1/5 (with 21 votes)

The people of Hamelin, overrun with rats, offer a bag of gold to anyone who can get rid of the rats. A piper offers to do the job, and successfully lures the rats into a mirage of cheese, which disappears. The citizens, disappointed that all he did was play a tune, offer only pocket change. The piper, angered, plays a new tune that has all the children of the city follow him, even the new twins the stork is preparing to deliver.

Directed by Wilfred Jackson

Three Blind Mouseketeers(1936)

3.3/5 (with 26 votes)

As the title implies, the three blind mice are musketeers. The cat sets a number of traps for them, which they all evade (apparently without realizing it) while he sleeps. The cat eventually wakes up and begins chasing them unsuccessfully, thanks to their teamwork.

Merbabies(1938)

NR
| 9min | Animation
2.7/5 (with 7 votes)

A salt water version of "Water Babies" (1935); adorable redheaded 'merbabies' materialize out of the crashing surf and proceed to the sea floor where they conduct a circus along with a variety of sea creatures.

Farmyard Symphony(1938)

NR
| 8min | Animation, Music
3.0/5 (with 14 votes)

The farm comes to life, to various classical tunes. The high point is a rooster serenading a chicken, with all the animals joining in. But then comes the sound that's even more welcome to the animals: the farmer and his wife with food (the only actual words spoken).

Directed by Jack Cutting

Little Hiawatha(1937)

NR
| 9min | Animation
3.1/5 (with 16 votes)

The "fearless warrior" of the poem is a very small child whose pants keep falling down. He tries to shoot a grasshopper with his arrow, but the grasshopper spits in his eye. He tries to shoot a bunny rabbit, but the rabbit is too cute and pathetic. He tracks a bear, and runs after its cub and right into the mother. But the rest of the animals, thankful for him saving the rabbit, come to his rescue.

Directed by David Hand

Woodland Café(1937)

NR
| 7min | Animation, Music
3.0/5 (with 12 votes)

Bugs of all kinds convene on a jazz club for an evening of fun.

Directed by Wilfred Jackson

More Kittens(1936)

NR
| 8min | Animation
2.7/5 (with 7 votes)

Thrown out of the house into the backyard, the three kittens are sheltered by a giant Saint Bernard and are tormented by a turtle and a bluebird.

The China Plate(1931)

NR
| 7min | Animation
3.0/5 (with 8 votes)

An old plate tells the tale of the Emperor of China, whose palace was disrupted by some children.

Directed by Wilfred Jackson