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Against the Mice
Oswald is driven out of his store by mice, so he turns to a cat for help in this Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon from Walter Lantz.
The era of synchronized cartoons, which were basically silent cartoons timed to a synchronized score, had ended about eighteen months before this cartoon came out. It was gone but not forgotten and this cartoon is a series of gags timed to jazzy square dance tunes orchestrated by James Dietrich. It feels like much more, however. There is a sense more of a story driven by the music, a real plot, rather than the random series of timed gags. Perhaps this was in response to Disney's advancing techniques with his Silly Symphonies, but it feels more like Lantz' Swing Symphonies of the following decade. It's also very engaging as it uses the gags to advance the plot.
The era of synchronized cartoons, which were basically silent cartoons timed to a synchronized score, had ended about eighteen months before this cartoon came out. It was gone but not forgotten and this cartoon is a series of gags timed to jazzy square dance tunes orchestrated by James Dietrich. It feels like much more, however. There is a sense more of a story driven by the music, a real plot, rather than the random series of timed gags. Perhaps this was in response to Disney's advancing techniques with his Silly Symphonies, but it feels more like Lantz' Swing Symphonies of the following decade. It's also very engaging as it uses the gags to advance the plot.
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- boblipton
- Jul 14, 2014
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- Runtime8 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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