Moonlight for Two
| Moonlight for Two | |
|---|---|
| Merrie Melodies (Goopy Geer) series | |
| Directed by | Rudolf Ising |
| Produced by | Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising, Leon Schlesinger |
| Music by | Frank Marsales |
| Animation by | Isadore Freleng, Larry Martin (as "Drawn by") |
| Studio | Harman-Ising Productions |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros., The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date(s) | June 11, 1932 (U.S.A.) |
| Color process | Black-and-white |
| Running time | 7 min. |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | It's Got Me Again! (1932) |
| Followed by | The Queen Was in the Parlor (1932) |
Moonlight for Two is an American animated short film. It stars Goopy Geer, one of the few recurring main characters of the Harman-Ising-produced Merrie Melodies. It may have been released on June 11, 1932, but one source is unsure of its exact date (as well as of the dates of other Warner Bros. cartoons released between 1930 and 1932.) Like most Merrie Melodies of its time, it was directed by Rudolf Ising; its music was directed by Frank Marsales.
The iris opens to a night-time scene, perhaps in the Ozarks or Appalachia, and the music of "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain." Goopy Geer's nameless sweetheart comes out of a cabin scatting the music. Goopy himself stands by a tree unknowingly accompanying her on his harmonica before they meet. A songbird and her children trill a tune, "Moonlight for Two," which the happy couple pick up together, dancing about as the birds continue their accompaniment. The dancing ends when Goopy and the young lady hop onto a precarious wooden cart which, boarded, rolls down the hill at whose top it had been placed and through a cabin whose formation is confounded by the impact and whose logs, sent into the air, fall to earth again in a neat pile. The ungoverned cart crashes into a tree but reassembles into a perfect wheelbarrow, now bearing only the girl and pushed along by Goopy; across a plank bridge merrily they roll along, the bridge yielding to their weight not to the point of breaking but only bending enough that the happy couple are wetted by the shallow water beneath. We cut to a large cabin, where a square dance is taking place: amongst other partners, two donkeys dance, their tails joining to form a makeshift jump-rope for a kitten; a goat-like fiddler continually resins his bow between his toes.
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