Lullaby Land (1933)
5/10
Beautifully animated short, but rather uninspired otherwise
22 October 2014
Warning: Spoilers
This is an early color short in the Silly Symphonies series produced by the Disney studio. There will be spoilers ahead:

The animation in this cartoon is beautifully done, but there isn't very much beyond that to the short. A baby is sung to sleep and winds up visiting Lullaby Land, which looks pretty much as you might expect-trees with pacifiers and powder puffs, animated potty chairs with a chamber pot joke (which happened fairly often in 1930s Disney shorts) and diapers with safety pins on parade and so on.

The short veers off into the "Forbidden Garden" and, briefly, the short looks like it might just turn interesting, but it's just more of the same types of gags, only with things which "will hurt baby that he mustn't touch". Baby starts a FIRE! by playing with matches and one of the better bits arises from three smoke-inspired demons which are the most interesting part of the short.

The Sandman finally puts baby to sleep and the dream mercifully ends, to be followed shortly by the end of the cartoon.

This short is available on the Disney Treasures Silly Symphonies DVD set and the set itself is worth getting.
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