At a little over ten minutes, Harmon and Ising's Bottles is one of the longest one-reel cartoon shorts I've seen from the '30s. It's basically about a druggist who's up overnight mixing a potion for a poison bottle. As he falls asleep on the counter, the bottle comes to life and pours some of its liquid on the druggist's neck as he shrinks to a small size and wakes up. It's here that things get surreal with various medicine and alcohol bottles that come to life and sing and dance with the druggist joining in. Prominent among them are three baby bottles with diapers singing about doing nothing but crying because "no one will change our di-di". Quite amusing and a little bit atmospheric. Worth seeing for anyone curious about MGM cartoons before Tex Avery and Tom and Jerry came aboard.
Bottles
(1936)
Bottles is a little amusingly atmospheric musical cartoon short
12 June 2007
Warning: Spoilers