Mother Goose and a scarecrow are having a secret romance.Mother Goose and a scarecrow are having a secret romance.Mother Goose and a scarecrow are having a secret romance.
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[first lines]
Mother Goose: [to the scarecrow] Ah, my big lovin'! I have come to you. Oh, what a night and what a moon!
Goose: Aw, nuts!
- SoundtracksMoonlight and Roses
(uncredited)
Written by Edwin H. Lemare, Ben Black and Neil Moret
Sung by Mother Goose while sitting with the scarecrow
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Not a distinguished short....
As quickly as we may dismiss some of these shorts out of hand, we cannot overlook the fact that the major animators of the day and those yet to become major animators were watching...because the craft of animation is the province of the animator. I see elements in this one that could have inspired Disney with his seven dwarfs some years down the road. The main fault in this one is the lack of a clear story line that would keep the viewer interested, and very poor character development. Cartoons of this period appear to have an assembly-line construction..."just crank out this or that and keep in step with the competition"...or "keep our contract fulfilled"...not the best way to perform with quality in mind, as we have dis-covered in ensuing years. But as theatres were the main medium during this period, and TV was yet a glimmer on the vast horizon, the "gold in them thar hills" was in releasing product as quickly as possible for most production houses. Van Bueren was only starting to produce shorts of a true quality when Van Beuren died, and the production and music crews were scattered to the wind. No doubt it could have become a significant if not a major player in the game with the talent it had begun to attract by the mid 1930s. But we can never know now... This effort with Mother Goose carrying on with a corn-field scare-crow is a swipe at an old biddy who is past her prime and so desperate for a love life that even the animals and the children as well as the other characters from Mother Goose-land are taken aback and somewhat appalled. The absurdity of it is so obvious, it is a wonder that it would attract anyone's attention for a protracted period of time. It was a difficult watch in some ways, but I kept in mind the period of its release and the tone and timbre of the times, as well as the mind-set and expectations of the audiences. This one has a pre-code look to it, and anything goes there...but it could have been made more interesting by better story development, and certainly by focusing on characters as opposed to just having animated forms appear on the screen for reasons that are not clearly defined...and which remain undefined throughout the duration of the entire short. I give this short a 4 rating, and I feel I am being overly generous at that. One watching is sufficient...you may not want to sit through this one a second time, unless you are punishing yourself for something you did...or didn't do.
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- tmpj
- Sep 26, 2009
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- A Nursery Scandal
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- Runtime5 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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