A bluebird and a canary live a life of untrammeled joy on one of those tiny little swings. The only thing to spoil their happiness is a crow who sells vacuum cleaners and chucks the canary under the chin, while the neighboring birds all twitter.
This early Columbia Technicolor cartoon was directed by Ben Harrison, who had been in charge of the Krazy Kat cartoons for ten years. Besides the rather saccharine nature of the cartoon, I have great trouble with the color design. Perhaps producer Charles Mintz had not been able to train skilled colorists, but the entire movie is colored with primary tints, with little toning. This causes me to suspect that either Harrison was told very late in the process that he would be doing this in Technicolor or that someone went over a faded copy and donea primitive and annoying job of it.
Technicolor had had an exclusive contract with Disney for color work, but that had expired the previous year. Nonetheless, most of the cartoon factories were hesitant about using it, between the cost and particular skills.If this is how the cartoon was supposed to look, their caution was well advised.