This is a color cartoon in the Silly Symphonies series produced by the Disney studio. There will be mild spoilers ahead:
This is a Disney cartoon done in the mid-1930s, so it's essentially a given that it would be visually beautiful. Disney animators had more or less hit their stride by that point, so making a cartoon which had beautiful animation and backgrounds was a cinch.
It's also a plot less cartoon for all practical purposes (there are two brief sequences which could almost have been sub-plots, with a few water babies "dressed" as cowboys, with cowboy hats and leaves for chaps and then one water baby being a matador to a charging "bull"frog, with that last one indeed being too cute for words) and it's derivative of bits and pieces of other shorts.
Technically, it's an interesting cartoon. But let's face it, this eight minutes of cherubic-looking children swimming and frolicking with birds, frogs fish and insects. It's all a bit too twee for my tastes, even though it's very lovely. A nice cartoon, if not entirely to my taste.
This is available on the Disney Treasures Silly Symphonies DVD set and both it and the set are worth finding. Recommended.
This is a Disney cartoon done in the mid-1930s, so it's essentially a given that it would be visually beautiful. Disney animators had more or less hit their stride by that point, so making a cartoon which had beautiful animation and backgrounds was a cinch.
It's also a plot less cartoon for all practical purposes (there are two brief sequences which could almost have been sub-plots, with a few water babies "dressed" as cowboys, with cowboy hats and leaves for chaps and then one water baby being a matador to a charging "bull"frog, with that last one indeed being too cute for words) and it's derivative of bits and pieces of other shorts.
Technically, it's an interesting cartoon. But let's face it, this eight minutes of cherubic-looking children swimming and frolicking with birds, frogs fish and insects. It's all a bit too twee for my tastes, even though it's very lovely. A nice cartoon, if not entirely to my taste.
This is available on the Disney Treasures Silly Symphonies DVD set and both it and the set are worth finding. Recommended.