This is an Oswald the Lucky Rabbit short produced by Walter Lantz. There will be spoilers ahead:
This is a very strange and rather surreal short which starts out comparatively quietly and surreal! Oswald is serenading Kitty in a boat-which is being pushed by a duck wearing a top hat and smoking a cigar! The rather calm and tranquil evening is broken by a fist fight between two clouds, one of which causes it to rain when it begins to cry! It becomes totally dark when the sun is punched twice and it to begins to cry! I'm not even going to tell you what the duck does after Oswald and his date reach the shore.
The "lucky" couple find a haunted house and go inside, to encounter all manner of things. First up is a trio of ghosts and then one ghost playing an organ. It's an interesting house and things are only beginning! You see, while they're meeting ghosts, a gorilla has been going a few rounds with lightning outside, a fight which must be seen to be appreciated. As Oswald is messing with the ghost on the organ, the gorilla wanders up and the fun begins. During the chase by the gorilla and all the subsequent tumult, we come across an effeminate skeleton, a head of hair with a mind of its own and an a most unusual knight in armor.
The climactic scene is an elaborate Rube Goldberg style sequence triggered the second time the gorilla tries to knock a chip off Oswald's shoulder. The first time results in Oswald having quite an experience, the second saves the day and allows Oswald to look like a hero. Lots of strangeness in just under nine minutes.
This short deserves to be more widely known. Recommended.
This is a very strange and rather surreal short which starts out comparatively quietly and surreal! Oswald is serenading Kitty in a boat-which is being pushed by a duck wearing a top hat and smoking a cigar! The rather calm and tranquil evening is broken by a fist fight between two clouds, one of which causes it to rain when it begins to cry! It becomes totally dark when the sun is punched twice and it to begins to cry! I'm not even going to tell you what the duck does after Oswald and his date reach the shore.
The "lucky" couple find a haunted house and go inside, to encounter all manner of things. First up is a trio of ghosts and then one ghost playing an organ. It's an interesting house and things are only beginning! You see, while they're meeting ghosts, a gorilla has been going a few rounds with lightning outside, a fight which must be seen to be appreciated. As Oswald is messing with the ghost on the organ, the gorilla wanders up and the fun begins. During the chase by the gorilla and all the subsequent tumult, we come across an effeminate skeleton, a head of hair with a mind of its own and an a most unusual knight in armor.
The climactic scene is an elaborate Rube Goldberg style sequence triggered the second time the gorilla tries to knock a chip off Oswald's shoulder. The first time results in Oswald having quite an experience, the second saves the day and allows Oswald to look like a hero. Lots of strangeness in just under nine minutes.
This short deserves to be more widely known. Recommended.