This is an early short in the Silly Symphonies series produced by Disney. There will be spoilers ahead:
There's minimal plot to this one, which is par for the course with the early Silly Symphonies. This opens with a great opening shot on a whole flock of house flies enjoying themselves. A couple of flies are clearly enraptured with each other.
The couple are enjoying themselves. Enter the bad guy, er, spider, from behind a poison bottle. It goes up to his web and begins playing it like a harp, to try to attract something. The couple comes nearer and begin dancing, the girl spinning off and into the web.
The cartoon now becomes action-oriented, with the boy fly trying to free his companion, barely avoiding capture. Then, he calls out reinforcements-other house flies, horse flies and so on. It looks like a battle during World War I, with the rest of the insect kingdom ganging up on the fly. It's all very well animated and there's a happy ending (it is, after all, a Disney cartoon).
This short is available on the Disney Treasures More Silly Symphonies DVD set and this short and the set are well worth finding. Recommended.
There's minimal plot to this one, which is par for the course with the early Silly Symphonies. This opens with a great opening shot on a whole flock of house flies enjoying themselves. A couple of flies are clearly enraptured with each other.
The couple are enjoying themselves. Enter the bad guy, er, spider, from behind a poison bottle. It goes up to his web and begins playing it like a harp, to try to attract something. The couple comes nearer and begin dancing, the girl spinning off and into the web.
The cartoon now becomes action-oriented, with the boy fly trying to free his companion, barely avoiding capture. Then, he calls out reinforcements-other house flies, horse flies and so on. It looks like a battle during World War I, with the rest of the insect kingdom ganging up on the fly. It's all very well animated and there's a happy ending (it is, after all, a Disney cartoon).
This short is available on the Disney Treasures More Silly Symphonies DVD set and this short and the set are well worth finding. Recommended.