This is a cartoon in the Screen Songs series produced by Famous Studios. There will be spoilers ahead:
Famous Studios, when they replaced Fleischer, kept the Screen Songs series going, "bouncing ball" and all. They ran the gamut from absolutely horrible to very good. This one's somewhere in the middle of the pack.
It starts out promisingly enough, with what turns out to be one of the best gags in the short-a pan across an urban skyline which abruptly comes to a wall and end with a sign indicating that the west now begins. There follows a whole slew of blackout gags, the majority of which are tepid at best, with some of them quite bad. Two of the better ones involve outlines or silhouettes of girls-which tells you how mediocre most of them are.
The lead in to the singalong is rather strange, as a short cowboy comes out of a chute at a rodeo and basically orders the audience to sing along with him and the "bouncing ball" to "I'm An Old Cow Hand", which is actually about someone who isn't even marginally a cowboy. The singalong is bland and the best thing about this short is the closing gag.
Worth watching once.
Famous Studios, when they replaced Fleischer, kept the Screen Songs series going, "bouncing ball" and all. They ran the gamut from absolutely horrible to very good. This one's somewhere in the middle of the pack.
It starts out promisingly enough, with what turns out to be one of the best gags in the short-a pan across an urban skyline which abruptly comes to a wall and end with a sign indicating that the west now begins. There follows a whole slew of blackout gags, the majority of which are tepid at best, with some of them quite bad. Two of the better ones involve outlines or silhouettes of girls-which tells you how mediocre most of them are.
The lead in to the singalong is rather strange, as a short cowboy comes out of a chute at a rodeo and basically orders the audience to sing along with him and the "bouncing ball" to "I'm An Old Cow Hand", which is actually about someone who isn't even marginally a cowboy. The singalong is bland and the best thing about this short is the closing gag.
Worth watching once.