When the combine harvester comes by the wheat field, the family of mice pack up and move, except for grandpa and Herman, who get trapped by the machinery.
It's a pretty good cartoon from Hugh Harman. True it has the simplistic attitude that children are good-natured idiots that fill me with exasperated bafflement, but in terms of the mechanics of cartoon making, it's pretty near the peak of the the field, with lovely designs and lush, rich colors; the fields and grain are literally golden.
As for the rest of it, I am interested in the fact that the young mouse is named Herman. This couldn't be the Herman the Mouse who starred in Famous Studios cartoons a decade later, could it?
It's a pretty good cartoon from Hugh Harman. True it has the simplistic attitude that children are good-natured idiots that fill me with exasperated bafflement, but in terms of the mechanics of cartoon making, it's pretty near the peak of the the field, with lovely designs and lush, rich colors; the fields and grain are literally golden.
As for the rest of it, I am interested in the fact that the young mouse is named Herman. This couldn't be the Herman the Mouse who starred in Famous Studios cartoons a decade later, could it?