Merbabies

Merbabies (1938)

Ocean waves form merbabies who are summoned to a playground on the ocean floor.

Walt Disney enlisted former colleagues Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising to help create this underwater Silly Symphony. Ocean waves form merbabies who are summoned to an aquatic circus playground on the sea floor, where they interact with a parade of seahorses, starfish and other marine life, before disappearing into the surface from which they came.

Date of release
1938-12-09
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (44)
Runtime
9m
Genres
Animation, Music, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Director
Rudolf Ising, Vernon Stallings

Casting

Interesting facts

Merbabies is an American animated short film directed by Rudolf Ising and Vernon Stallings. It was released on December 9, 1938. It is a collaboration between Walt Disney Productions and Harman-Ising Productions and the first Disney cartoon to involve Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising in a decade; the duo had worked for Walt Disney for his Oswald the Lucky Rabbit series before leaving for Warner Bros. Pictures. Harman and Ising also donated artists to Disney to work on the production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).

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