This late-silent Van Beuren cartoon has a few continuity issues. However, it doesn't look like bad editing, but as if the film broke and was patched with several key seconds excised. However, those are not the thoughts uppermost in my mind. Of more importance is the antique confusion of India, Arabia and sub-Saharan Africa as a mouse finds a flute which can cause anyone to dance: cobras and cannibals alike.
Anyway, this is a decent but unremarkable example of the last few months of the silent Aesops Fables series. There are gags aplenty, a few moments of excitement -- dealing with the cannibals -- and it avoids the excesses of rubber-tube animation of the era. Some people will have issues with it because it is silent; some because of the Ubangi-as-cannibals portrayals of the natives, but if you like the series, you won't be disappointed.
Anyway, this is a decent but unremarkable example of the last few months of the silent Aesops Fables series. There are gags aplenty, a few moments of excitement -- dealing with the cannibals -- and it avoids the excesses of rubber-tube animation of the era. Some people will have issues with it because it is silent; some because of the Ubangi-as-cannibals portrayals of the natives, but if you like the series, you won't be disappointed.
