The other rabbits down at Hillbilly Hollow don't like Oswald playing hot jazz on his saxophone, so they kick him out and continue with their hillbilly music. When the grasshoppers come down on their crops like locusts and their shacks like locusts, they discover that the only remedy is Oswald's type of rhythm
Everyone was doing musical cartoons, from Disney's Silly Symphonies to Schlesinger's Looney Tunes, to Terry's operetta style of musical, so Walter Lantz tried to strengthen his cartoon production with this sort of all-music short subject. By the middle of the 1940s, he would be producing wonderful jazz cartoons like THE SLIPHORN KING OF POLAROO, with his musical director picking up backup players at the jazz clubs. For the moment, though, this is some decent jazz abetted by some good gagwork.
Everyone was doing musical cartoons, from Disney's Silly Symphonies to Schlesinger's Looney Tunes, to Terry's operetta style of musical, so Walter Lantz tried to strengthen his cartoon production with this sort of all-music short subject. By the middle of the 1940s, he would be producing wonderful jazz cartoons like THE SLIPHORN KING OF POLAROO, with his musical director picking up backup players at the jazz clubs. For the moment, though, this is some decent jazz abetted by some good gagwork.
