"Social Lion" is a Disney cartoon from 1954, sot his one is already over 60 years old and like all these other cartoons (or almost all of them) from the Golden Age of Animation, this is a color sound film that runs for slightly under seven minutes. It shows us what happens when a lion is caught in Africa and let out in an American city. Nobody fears him. What can shock you when you are confronted with economical crises, metropolitan traffic and rising crime rates in a metropolis? Certainly not some kind of animal. But when he adapts the looks of a rich businessman, oh boy! That is one hell of a scary creature. I thought this was a fairly funny little film with a nice but not overwhelmingly deep share of insight into life back in the 1950s. It's all for the wit an laughs. With the narration, it sometimes reminded me of one of these Goofy how-to cartoons. The Kinney Brothers and Schaffer add another pretty decent little film to their respectable body of work. It is not on the level of Lambert the Sheepish Lion, but still very much worth checking out. I give it a thumbs-up.
Review of Social Lion
