September in the Rain (film)

September in the Rain
Merrie Melodies series
Blue Ribbon reissue title card
Directed by	I. Freleng
Produced by	Leon Schlesinger
Story by	Ted Pierce
Voices by	Mel Blanc (uncredited) Danny Webb (uncredited) Wini Shaw (uncredited) James C. Morton (uncredited)
Music by	Carl W. Stalling
Animation by	Cal Dalton
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Vitaphone
Release date(s)	December 18, 1937 (USA)
Color process	Technicolor
Running time	5:48
Country	United States
Language	English
Preceded by	The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos
Followed by	Daffy Duck & Egghead

September in the Rain is an American one-reel animated cartoon short subject in the Merrie Melodies series, produced in Technicolor and released to theaters on December 18, 1937 by Warner Bros. and Vitaphone. It was produced by Leon Schlesinger and directed by I. Freleng, with musical supervision by Carl W. Stalling.

Timed at 5 minutes and about 50 seconds, September in the Rain may well be the shortest among all Warners Bros. Merrie Melodies or Looney Tunes animated short subjects. Due to the controversy engendered by the sequences considered to depict racial stereotyping, it has been most commonly edited to a much shorter running of four or even three minutes, with the invariable excision of the Fats Waller–Louis Armstrong "Nagasaki" production number and, frequently, the Al Jolson title song performance. Although not listed among the Censored Eleven, the cartoon has been exhibited infrequently, even in its brief censored version.

Re-released under the "Blue Ribbon" label, September in the Rain was shorn of its original title card containing all the credited names, however, the recovered card, along with those for other "Blue Ribbon" reissues, is available for viewing.

Seen from the inside of a brightly lit grocery store, the plate glass storefront window shows a dark and rainy night. The song "Am I Blue?" (voice of unbilled Wini Shaw) is heard, revealing the performer to be a bottle of blueing with a face, arms and legs. The bottle's feet are shod in spats-covered footwear and its label states, "for keeping your clothes white and clean".