Frolicking Fish

Frolicking Fish is a Silly Symphonies animated Disney short film. It was released in 1930.[2]

Frolicking Fish
Directed byBurt Gillett
Produced byWalt Disney
Music byBert Lewis
Animation byJohnny Cannon
Les Clark
Norman Ferguson
Merle Gilson
David Hand
Wilfred Jackson
Jack King
Tom Palmer
Ben Sharpsteen[1]
Backgrounds byEmil Flohri
Carlos Manríquez
Production
company
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
May 8, 1930
Running time
6:02
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Reception

The Film Daily (September 28, 1930): "An undersea exhibition that keeps the patrons chuckling all the way. All sorts of fantastic fish are put through a dizzy series of dances, drills and whatnot, in tune to some unusually fitting music. The chief amusement is provided by a villainous octopus chasing a fish, but the wicked one is given the k.o. in the end when the smart little fish drops an anchor on him from a sunken vessel. One of the best in the Silly Symphonies series."[3]

Motion Picture News (September 27, 1930): "This Walt Disney cartoon packs all the stuff you've seen time after time with fishes instead of delirium tremens animals, dancing, talking, singing and cavorting about. Didn't get a chuckle out of a New York audience. The public is fed up on this type of stuff."[4]

Variety (September 24, 1930): "Entertaining musical cartoon comedy. Scenes are all under water, with the cartoon characters all fish. Fish dance and sing and are given comedy musical synchronization. Octopus is the villain and gets his at the end, when he chases a fish through a sunken ship. Anchor falls and squashes him."[5]

Home media

The short was released on the 2006 Walt Disney Treasures DVD box set More Silly Symphonies.[2]

References
  1. http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/disneys-frolicking-fish-1930/
  2. Merritt, Russell; Kaufman, J. B. (2016). Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies: A Companion to the Classic Cartoon Series (2nd ed.). Glendale, CA: Disney Editions. pp. 74–75. ISBN 978-1-4847-5132-9.
  3. "Reviews of Sound Shorts". The Film Daily: 11. September 28, 1930. Retrieved February 23, 2020.
  4. "Short Subjects". Motion Picture News: 43. September 27, 1930. Retrieved February 23, 2020.
  5. "Talking Shorts". Variety: 23. September 24, 1930. Retrieved February 23, 2020.


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