This is another cartoon that is full of caricatured Hollywood celebrities. I guess really liked doing this in the mid to late 1930s.
The story is simple: it's a musical concert being held in the woods and broadcast over radio station KUKU. Featured is the "Woodland Community Swing,"
Most of the "stars" aren't performing but seated in the reserved seats. The gags with them are the puns concerning their names, converting them to animals, such as Eddie Gander, Sophie Turkey, W.C. Fieldmouse, Dick Fowl, Fats Swallow, Irvin S. Frog, Fred McFurry, Bing Crowsby, Al Goatson, Ruby Squealer, Deanna Terrapin, etc. You get the picture.
The talent show was lame except for two loudmouths: "Moutha Bray" and "Andy Bovine." The jokes were either way too dated or corny.
If I was familiar with announcer Alexander Woollcott and emcee Ben Bernie, who apparently were well-known during this period, I couldn't appreciated the caricatures more. That included a few other people whom I had no idea about. That's the problem with doing cartoons making fun of the culture. Seventy years later, few people know what you're talking about! Then again, who would have thought back then that there would be VHS and DVDs showing their work over a half-century later to whole new generations!
The story is simple: it's a musical concert being held in the woods and broadcast over radio station KUKU. Featured is the "Woodland Community Swing,"
Most of the "stars" aren't performing but seated in the reserved seats. The gags with them are the puns concerning their names, converting them to animals, such as Eddie Gander, Sophie Turkey, W.C. Fieldmouse, Dick Fowl, Fats Swallow, Irvin S. Frog, Fred McFurry, Bing Crowsby, Al Goatson, Ruby Squealer, Deanna Terrapin, etc. You get the picture.
The talent show was lame except for two loudmouths: "Moutha Bray" and "Andy Bovine." The jokes were either way too dated or corny.
If I was familiar with announcer Alexander Woollcott and emcee Ben Bernie, who apparently were well-known during this period, I couldn't appreciated the caricatures more. That included a few other people whom I had no idea about. That's the problem with doing cartoons making fun of the culture. Seventy years later, few people know what you're talking about! Then again, who would have thought back then that there would be VHS and DVDs showing their work over a half-century later to whole new generations!