Merbabies

Merbabies
Silly Symphonies series
Directed by	Rudolf Ising Vernon Stallings (all uncredited)
Produced by	Walt Disney Hugh Harman (uncredited) Rudolf Ising (uncredited)
Story by	Pinto Colvig Jonathan Caldwell Maurice Day (all uncredited)
Music by	Scott Bradley (uncredited)
Animation by	Lee Blair Thomas McKimson Carl Urbano Jim Pabian Pete Burness Michael Lah Melvin Shaw Rollin Hamilton Frank Smith Jack Zander (all uncredited)
Layouts by	Don Smith John Niendorff Maurice Day (all uncredited)
Backgrounds by	Art Riley Don Schaffer (all uncredited)
Studio	Walt Disney Productions Harman-Ising Pictures (uncredited)
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release date(s)	December 9, 1938
Color process	Technicolor
Running time	8:34 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Preceded by	Farmyard Symphony
Followed by	Mother Goose Goes Hollywood

Merbabies is a Silly Symphonies animated Disney short film. It was released on December 9, 1938. 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.

Plot

Various redheaded "merbabies" materialize out of the crashing surf and are summoned to a playground on the floor of the ocean for an underwater circus. When a whale blows them all to the surface, they disappear into the waves from which they came.^[1]

Notes

Merbabies is the first Disney cartoon produced by an outside studio.

References

↑ "Merbabies". www.bcdb.com, July 1, 2014

External links

Merbabies at the Internet Movie Database
Merbabies at The Big Cartoon DataBase
Video

Silly Symphony film series

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Directors	Jack Cutting Walt Disney Burt Gillett David Hand Rudolf Ising Ub Iwerks Wilfred Jackson Ben Sharpsteen Vernon Stallings

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