Merbabies

Merbabies is a Silly Symphonies animated Disney short film. It was released on December 9, 1938.[1] 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. It is one of the last shorts of the Silly Symphonies series.

Merbabies
Directed byCo-directed by:
Rudolf Ising
Vernon Stallings
(both uncredited)
Supervised by:
the Walt Disney crew in the uncredited
Produced byWalt Disney
Hugh Harman (uncredited)
Rudolf Ising (uncredited)
Story byPinto Colvig
Jonathan Caldwell
Maurice Day
(all uncredited)
Music byMusical director:
Scott Bradley (uncredited)
Animation byLee Blair
Thomas McKimson
Carl Urbano
Jim Pabian
Pete Burness
Michael Lah
Melvin Shaw
Rollin Hamilton
Frank Smith
Jack Zander
(all uncredited)
Layouts byDon Smith
John Niendorff
Maurice Day
(all uncredited)
Backgrounds byCo-backgrounds:
Art Riley
Don Schaffer
(both uncredited)
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
December 9, 1938
Running time
8:34 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

A large number of identical redheaded "merbabies" materialize out of the crashing surf and are summoned to a playground on the ocean floor for an underwater circus in which marine creatures such as seahorses and starfish also take part, beginning with a parade. When a whale blows all the merbabies to the surface inside bubbles, they disappear into the waves from which they came.[2]

Notes
  • This is the only Harman-Ising short to be outsourced to Disney.

Home media

The short was released on the DVD release of The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea, and 2006 Walt Disney Treasures DVD box set More Silly Symphonies.[1]

References
  1. 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. 200–203. ISBN 978-1-4847-5132-9.
  2. "Merbabies". www.bcdb.com, July 1, 2014
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