This is a short in the Screen Songs ("Follow the bouncing ball") cartoon series from Famous Studios. There will be mild spoilers ahead:
There isn't much of a plot here. It's harvest time on the farm and various animals are shown picking crops. There's a rather clever bit at the beginning with a scarecrow, there are some unique harvesting methods and some of the animals aren't the typical animals you'd normally see on a farm (turtles and kangaroos, for example).
Mice feature prominently more than once, possibly the same mouse. There's a neat reference to a major cartoon character from another series early in the short involving a mouse. A mouse also falls into some cider at one point, to the strains of "Little Brown Jug".
The Screen Songs were basically an excuse to do a sing along in theaters, with animation forming the first half or a bit more of the short and then a musical interlude, with the lyrics showing on the screen and a bouncing ball cuing the audience on the lyric being sung. Also instructions on who should be singing at what point. The ball here is the moon, cuing "Shine On Harvest Moon". The song isn't terribly memorable and neither is the art on that part of the short.
The cartoon closes with a barn dance and a funny finish once again involving a mouse. It's cute and enjoyable.
This short can be found online and may be on DVD. Worth a look.
There isn't much of a plot here. It's harvest time on the farm and various animals are shown picking crops. There's a rather clever bit at the beginning with a scarecrow, there are some unique harvesting methods and some of the animals aren't the typical animals you'd normally see on a farm (turtles and kangaroos, for example).
Mice feature prominently more than once, possibly the same mouse. There's a neat reference to a major cartoon character from another series early in the short involving a mouse. A mouse also falls into some cider at one point, to the strains of "Little Brown Jug".
The Screen Songs were basically an excuse to do a sing along in theaters, with animation forming the first half or a bit more of the short and then a musical interlude, with the lyrics showing on the screen and a bouncing ball cuing the audience on the lyric being sung. Also instructions on who should be singing at what point. The ball here is the moon, cuing "Shine On Harvest Moon". The song isn't terribly memorable and neither is the art on that part of the short.
The cartoon closes with a barn dance and a funny finish once again involving a mouse. It's cute and enjoyable.
This short can be found online and may be on DVD. Worth a look.