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''The Old Mill Pond'' is a 1936 animated short film (8 minutes) by [[Creator/HarmanAndIsing Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising]]. It was part of MGM's WesternAnimation/HappyHarmonies series of cartoon shorts.
The short does not have a story. Instead, the camera glides past a mill down to the old mill pond, where all the frogs have gathered to attend a jazz concert. After the introductory sermon by a preacher, the concert begins, and frogs corresponding to most of the well-known artists in the mid-1930s jazz world perform.
The short does not have a story. Instead, the camera glides past a mill down to the old mill pond, where all the frogs have gathered to attend a jazz concert. After the introductory sermon by a preacher, the concert begins, and frogs corresponding to most of the well-known artists in the mid-1930s jazz world perform.
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''The Old Mill Pond'' is a 1936 animated short film (8 minutes) produced by [[Creator/HarmanAndIsing Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising]]. It was part of MGM's WesternAnimation/HappyHarmonies series of cartoon shorts.
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The short does not have a story. Instead, the camera glides past a mill down to the old mill pond, where all the frogs have gathered together, to attend a jazz concert. After the introductory sermon by a preacher, the concert begins, and frogs corresponding to most of the well-known artists in the mid-1930s jazz worldperform.
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It was part of MGM's WesternAnimation/HappyHarmonies series of cartoon shorts.
The short does not have a story. Instead, the camera glides past a mill down to the old mill pond, where all the frogs have gathered together, to attend a jazz concert. After the introductory sermon by a preacher, the concert begins, and frogs corresponding to most of the well-known artists in the mid-1930s jazz world
It was part of MGM's WesternAnimation/HappyHarmonies series of cartoon shorts.
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''The Old Mill Pond'' is a 1936 animated short film (8 minutes) by [[Creator/HarmanAndIsing Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising]]. It was part of MGM's WesternAnimation/HappyHarmonies series of cartoon shorts.
The short does not have a story. Instead, the camera glides past a mill down to the old mill pond, where all the frogs have gathered to attend a jazz concert. After the introductory sermon by a preacher, the concert begins, and frogs corresponding to most of the well-known artists in the mid-1930s jazz world perform.
The short does not have a story. Instead, the camera glides past a mill down to the old mill pond, where all the frogs have gathered to attend a jazz concert. After the introductory sermon by a preacher, the concert begins, and frogs corresponding to most of the well-known artists in the mid-1930s jazz world perform.
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''The Old Mill Pond'' is a 1936 animated short film (8 minutes) by [[Creator/HarmanAndIsing Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising]]. It was part of MGM's WesternAnimation/HappyHarmonies series of cartoon shorts.
The short does not have a story. Instead, the camera glides past a mill down to the old mill pond, where all the frogs have gathered to attend a jazz concert. concert. After the introductory sermon by a preacher, the concert begins, and frogs corresponding to most of the well-known artists in the mid-1930s jazz world perform.
The short does not have a story.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Seen in the show are frogs corresponding to Music/CabCalloway, Fats Waller, Ethel Waters (the singer with the gap in her teeth), Bill Robinson, Music/LouisArmstrong, the Mills Brothers (the four-frog combo), and, ugh, Stepin Fetchit. The line of chorus girls is taken from the chorus girls at Harlem's famous Cotton Club.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Seen in the show are frogs corresponding to Music/CabCalloway, Fats Waller, Ethel Waters (the singer with the gap in her teeth), Bill Robinson, Music/LouisArmstrong, the Mills Brothers (the four-frog combo), and, ugh, Stepin Fetchit. The line of chorus girls is taken from the chorus girls at Harlem's famous Cotton Club.
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* RockersSmashGuitars: Possibly the UrExample, and surprisingly one that involves neither rockers nor guitars. Near the end of the cartoon the frog playing standup bass in the four-frog combo smashes his bass to splinters.
* UncleTomfoolery: All the frogs are drawn to look and sound like the common 1930s stereotypes of black people. A viewer's mileage may vary on just how racist the cartoon is, but the frog corresponding to cowardly Stepin Fetchit is pretty darn racist, even it is just caricaturing a real person's act.
* UncleTomfoolery: All the frogs are drawn to look and sound like the common 1930s stereotypes of black people. A viewer's mileage may vary on just how racist the cartoon is, but the frog corresponding to cowardly Stepin Fetchit is pretty darn racist, even it is just caricaturing a real person's act.
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* RockersSmashGuitars: Possibly the UrExample, and surprisingly one that involves neither rockers nor guitars. Near the end of the cartoon the frog playing standup bass in the four-frog combo smashes his bass to splinters.
* UncleTomfoolery: All the frogs are drawn to look and sound like the common 1930s stereotypes of black people. A viewer's mileage may vary on just how racist the cartoon is, but the frog corresponding to cowardly Stepin Fetchit is pretty darn racist, even it is just caricaturing a real person's act.
* UncleTomfoolery: All the frogs are drawn to look and sound like the common 1930s stereotypes of black people.
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''The Old Mill Pond'' is a 1936 animated short film (8 minutes) by [[Creator/HarmanAndIsing Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising]]. It was part of MGM's WesternAnimation/HappyHarmonies series of cartoon shorts.
The short does not have a story. Instead, the camera glides past a mill down to the old mill pond, where all the frogs have gathered to attend a jazz concert. After the introductory sermon by a preacher, the concert begins, and frogs corresponding to most of the well-known artists in the mid-1930s jazz world perform.
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!!Tropes:
* FunnyAnimal: Frogs that act just like people (specifically, frogs that act just like jazz musicians and performers).
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Seen in the show are frogs corresponding to Music/CabCalloway, Fats Waller, Ethel Waters (the singer with the gap in her teeth), Bill Robinson, Music/LouisArmstrong, the Mills Brothers (the four-frog combo), and, ugh, Stepin Fetchit. The line of chorus girls is taken from the chorus girls at Harlem's famous Cotton Club.
* NonMammalMammaries: The frogs appearing as the Cotton Club chorus girls wear bikini tops.
* NoPlotNoProblem: No story, just frogs giving a show.
* RockersSmashGuitars: Possibly the UrExample, and surprisingly one that involves neither rockers nor guitars. Near the end of the cartoon the frog playing standup bass in the four-frog combo smashes his bass to splinters.
* UncleTomfoolery: All the frogs are drawn to look and sound like the common 1930s stereotypes of black people. A viewer's mileage may vary on just how racist the cartoon is, but the frog corresponding to cowardly Stepin Fetchit is pretty darn racist, even it is just caricaturing a real person's act.
The short does not have a story. Instead, the camera glides past a mill down to the old mill pond, where all the frogs have gathered to attend a jazz concert. After the introductory sermon by a preacher, the concert begins, and frogs corresponding to most of the well-known artists in the mid-1930s jazz world perform.
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!!Tropes:
* FunnyAnimal: Frogs that act just like people (specifically, frogs that act just like jazz musicians and performers).
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Seen in the show are frogs corresponding to Music/CabCalloway, Fats Waller, Ethel Waters (the singer with the gap in her teeth), Bill Robinson, Music/LouisArmstrong, the Mills Brothers (the four-frog combo), and, ugh, Stepin Fetchit. The line of chorus girls is taken from the chorus girls at Harlem's famous Cotton Club.
* NonMammalMammaries: The frogs appearing as the Cotton Club chorus girls wear bikini tops.
* NoPlotNoProblem: No story, just frogs giving a show.
* RockersSmashGuitars: Possibly the UrExample, and surprisingly one that involves neither rockers nor guitars. Near the end of the cartoon the frog playing standup bass in the four-frog combo smashes his bass to splinters.
* UncleTomfoolery: All the frogs are drawn to look and sound like the common 1930s stereotypes of black people. A viewer's mileage may vary on just how racist the cartoon is, but the frog corresponding to cowardly Stepin Fetchit is pretty darn racist, even it is just caricaturing a real person's act.
