Fantasmagorie is a pioneering animated film that features a series of surreal and playful scenes. It showcases the innovative use of simple black and white lines to create various characters and objects. The film takes the viewers on a whimsical journey filled with transformations, humorous antics, and imaginative visuals.
A reporter interviews Max Fleischer about his creation, and Betty illustrates with excerpts from three prior cartoons.
Those Awful Hats is a silent film comedy that explores the consequences of wearing hats in a movie theater. When patrons refuse to remove their hats, chaos ensues as people struggle to see the screen. The film humorously highlights the importance of proper manners and etiquette in public settings.
Mickey Mouse and his friends stage their own production of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Zasu falls for a wrestler, drags Thelma to his next fight.
It's the day of the big baseball game between the Drips and the Droops and Woody Woodpecker is trying to crash the gate and get in without paying for a ticket. A policeman keeps tossing him out but Woody puts on a baseball uniform---including a baseball-cap, since baseball players do not wear hats---gets inside and soon gets involved with the game. He ends up pinned to the scoreboard by a deluge of baseballs thrown by everybody in the ballpark.
It's basically a stage slide show/vaudeville revue that features a female singer who gets chased by the villain before the Lucky Rabbit saves her and gets her love. A couple of gags that may have been created by Avery include: Oswald asking a lady to take off her hat as it's blocking his view but getting even more blocked when her hair suddenly grows into a giant afro! Also, as the trapeze artist spins around on his swing, so too do the audiences' heads from top to bottom! That's all the inventive stuff I saw in this cartoon, still Towne Hall Follies is worth a look for any Avery fans out there.
Scrappy is a young band leader; other little boys make up his band. They perform inside a gazebo, in front of an appreciative grown-up audience, as the wildlife get in on the act.
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