Various Animals are shown and speak up for themselves in this episode of the long-running series of Paramount shorts.
Producer Jerry Fairbanks won an Oscar for best one-reel movie with this episode -- I guess the voting members of the Academy were getting a bit tired of the war-themed titles offered for their consideration. Little others in the series, you got narrator Ken Carpenter talking about them for a bit, and then the beasts' mouths were animated so they could utter a one-line response. I found their quips rather weak, even when uttered by Sara Berner, Pinto Colvig, and Sterling Holloway, but the last sequence, in which a herd of cows sing "Cow Cow Boogie" is quite funny.
Producer Jerry Fairbanks won an Oscar for best one-reel movie with this episode -- I guess the voting members of the Academy were getting a bit tired of the war-themed titles offered for their consideration. Little others in the series, you got narrator Ken Carpenter talking about them for a bit, and then the beasts' mouths were animated so they could utter a one-line response. I found their quips rather weak, even when uttered by Sara Berner, Pinto Colvig, and Sterling Holloway, but the last sequence, in which a herd of cows sing "Cow Cow Boogie" is quite funny.