A Walt Disney SILLY SYMPHONY Cartoon Short.
Mammy Twoshoes has MORE KITTENS underfoot than she can tolerate. She drives the three diminutive felines out into the yard where many adventures finally reveal an unlikely protector...
A sequel to 1935's Oscar winning THREE ORPHAN KITTENS, this is a cute, enjoyable film but breaks no new ground technically. The perception of dimensional depth, so apparent in some of the previous film's backgrounds, are noticeably lacking here.
The SILLY SYMPHONIES, which Walt Disney produced for a ten year period beginning in 1929, are among the most interesting of series in the field of animation. Unlike the Mickey Mouse cartoons in which action was paramount, with the Symphonies the action was made to fit the music. There was little plot in the early Symphonies, which featured lively inanimate objects and anthropomorphic plants & animals, all moving frantically to the soundtrack. Gradually, however, the Symphonies became the school where Walt's animators learned to work with color and began to experiment with plot, characterization & photographic special effects. The pages of Fable & Fairy Tale, Myth & Mother Goose were all mined to provide story lines and even Hollywood's musicals & celebrities were effectively spoofed. It was from this rich soil that Disney's feature-length animation was to spring. In 1939, with SNOW WHITE successfully behind him and PINOCCHIO & FANTASIA on the near horizon, Walt phased out the SILLY SYMPHONIES; they had run their course & served their purpose.
