Merbabies
Merbabies | |
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Directed by | Co-directed by: Rudolf Ising Vernon Stallings (both uncredited) Supervised by: the Walt Disney crew in the uncredited |
Produced by | Walt Disney Hugh Harman (uncredited) Rudolf Ising (uncredited) |
Animation by | Lee Blair Thomas McKimson Carl Urbano Jim Pabian Pete Burness Michael Lah Melvin Shaw Rollin Hamilton Frank Smith Jack Zander (all uncredited) |
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Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
Running time | 8:34 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Merbabies is a Silly Symphonies animated Disney short film. It was released on December 9, 1938. It is a collaboration between Walt Disney and Harman and Ising, the latter studio having donated artists to Disney to work on the production of Snow White. It is one of the very last shorts of the Silly Symphonies series.
Plot
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Various redheaded "merbabies" materialize out of the crashing surf and are summoned to a playground on the floor of the ocean for an underwater circus. When a whale blows them all to the surface, they disappear into the waves from which they came.[1]
Notes
- Merbabies is one of the first and only Disney cartoons produced by an outside studio.