Old Macdonald Had A Farm (cartoon)

Old Macdonald Had A Farm
Noveltoons/Screen Songs series
Directed by	Seymour Kneitel
Music by	Winston Sharples
Animation by	Orestes Calpini Otto Feuer
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	7 June 1946
Color process	Technicolor
Running time	7 mins
Language	English

Old MacDonald Had A Farm was a fictional cartoon, released by Paramount Pictures in 1946.

Synopsis

Old Macdonald is tired, and he gets happy as soon as the music starts. The duck snores, causing the rabbit to play by choking the duck. The pig plays the stovepipe like a tuba, and the ewes sing "Mary Had a Little Lamb". He blows smoke on the ewes revealing a racist blackface gag, that was cut out in some prints. The duck is annoyed by the horse, in the end he blows a balloon,with a jar wrap. The cat tries to eat the mouse with a violin, but the mouse plays the harp in his mouth using the cat's whiskers. The horse goes jazzy with the trumpet, and the chicks do the jitterbug, and after the dance sequence, Old Macdonald asks the audience to sing along with the Bouncing Ball to "Old McDonald Had a Farm". The version of the song featured in the cartoon still exists, yet it's not sung as much as the version today. Each animal sung is sung in every verse, and the boys and girls alternate, not done during the latter day Screen Songs. Then the animals go in a conga line, the iris circle moves in a funny position, and it ends with the Paramount or NTA logo.

History

When Paramount Pictures fired Max Fleischer and Dave Fleischer, and renamed their studio Famous Studios, one of the things kept by Max Fleischer's son-in-law Seymour Kneitel was the Screen Songs series. These were the first bouncing ball sing-along films made in Technicolor. When U. M. & M. TV Corp. retitled the cartoons, NTA retitled the cartoon.