The Cookie Carnival

The Cookie Carnival (1935)

Cookies, pastries, and other desserts have a parade.

Date of release
1935-05-25
TMDB
6.7 / 10 (49)
Runtime
8m
Genres
Animation, Music, Romance
Director
Ben Sharpsteen

Casting

Interesting facts

The Cookie Carnival is an animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and originally released as part of the Silly Symphonies series on May 25, 1935. It is a Cinderella story involving a cookie girl who wishes to be queen at the cookie carnival, and a homage to the Atlantic City boardwalk parade and bathing beauty contest of the 1920s and 1930s. In accordance with the claim in Film Superlist: 1894-1939, the film is in the public domain as its copyright was not renewed. The depiction of "Miss Licorice" was left in the film despite being a racial stereotype.

Production

Pinto Colvig, most known as the voice of Goofy, provides the voice of the gingerbread man. Vaudeville was dying out by the time The Cookie Carnival made its debut, but audiences would have been familiar with each of the acts represented by the different cookies.

When Miss Bonbon is being outfitted, she transitions from her cookie-like shape into a more humanoid-appearance (especially apparent between creating her dress and powdering her cheeks). This might make her another early example of visually realistic human characters in Disney shorts, and even a precursor to the Snow White look in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

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