Merbabies | |
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Silly Symphonies series | |
Directed by |
Rudolf Ising Vernon Stallings (all uncredited) |
Produced by |
Walt Disney Hugh Harman (uncredited) Rudolf Ising (uncredited) |
Story by |
Pinto Colvig Jonathan Caldwell Maurice Day (all uncredited) |
Music by | Scott Bradley (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) |
Layouts by | Don Smith John Niendorff Maurice Day (all uncredited) |
Backgrounds by | Art Riley Don Schaffer (all uncredited) |
Studio |
Walt Disney Productions Harman-Ising Pictures (uncredited) |
Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
Release date(s) | December 9, 1938 |
Color process | Technicolor |
Running time | 8:34 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Preceded by | Farmyard Symphony |
Followed by | Mother Goose Goes Hollywood |
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.
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.