The Cookie Carnival
| The Cookie Carnival | |
|---|---|
| Silly Symphonies series | |
| Directed by | Ben Sharpsteen |
| Produced by | Walt Disney |
| Story by |
Pinto Colvig Ted Sears |
| Voices by |
Pinto Colvig Marcellite Garner |
| Music by | Leigh Harline |
| Animation by |
Paul Allen Johnny Cannon Ugo D'Orsi Nick George Ferdinand Horvath Jack Kinney John McManus Grim Natwick Milt Schaffer Leonard Sebring Fred Spencer Edward Strickland Frank Thomas Don Towsley Bill Tytla |
| Studio | Walt Disney Productions |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
| Release date(s) |
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| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 8 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Cookie Carnival is an animated short produced by Walt Disney Productions and originally released May 25, 1935. It's a Cinderella story involving a cookie girl who wishes to be queen at the cookie carnival, and a homage to the Atlantic City boardwalk parade and bathing beauty contest (what eventually became the Miss America pageant) of the 1920s and 1930s.
Various sweets and goodies of Cookietown are preparing to crown their new Cookie Queen. A parade of potential candidates passes by, all based on various cakes and sweets. Far from the parade route, on what would appear to be the wrong side of the peppermint stick railroad tracks, a gingerbread drifter overhears an impoverished sugar cookie girl crying. Upon hearing that she can't enter the parade because she doesn't have any clothes that are nice enough to wear for it, he hurries to remedy this by concocting a dress of colored frosting and candy hearts. He covers her brown hair with golden taffy ringlets and adds a large violet bow to her dress as a finishing touch. Thus attired, she's entered as the final contestant in the parade: Miss Bonbon.
The judges, who have thus far been disappointed in the candidates, all promptly declare Miss Bonbon the Cookie Queen on sight. The gingerbread man is practically trampled in the sudden surge of the crowd as they carry Miss Bonbon to her throne, where they place a golden crown on her head. She's then presented with a large layer cake which appears to be a carousel of different vaudeville acts---every Queen needs a King, so the newly crowned Cookie Queen has to choose a husband from those featured.
After being presented with a duo of tap dancing candy cane men, a pair of Barbershop singing Old Fashioned Cookies, a pair of effeminate angel food cakes, two scat-singing devil's food cakes, two acrobatic upside-down cakes, and three tipsy rum cookies, she refuses each of them with a giggle and a shake of her head. The judges, with no other suitors to present to her, offer to have her marry one of them (or all three of them).
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