Mama Bear tells Papa Bear to give the canary a bath.
The Harman-Ising producing pair were in decline at MGM in this period. With their contract, now six years old, they had been granted enormous budgets, but their tendency was to produce cartoons that were beautiful to look at, but their serious and often maudlin plots were intended to compete with Disney, rather than striking out on their own path. Rudy Ising ventured into funny cartoons earlier, and he directed the first of the Bear Family cartoons, which would eventually metamorph into MGM's Barney Bear series.
This one has some amusing slapstick, but the continued insistence on ornate, candybox backgrounds are a distraction from the fun.
The Harman-Ising producing pair were in decline at MGM in this period. With their contract, now six years old, they had been granted enormous budgets, but their tendency was to produce cartoons that were beautiful to look at, but their serious and often maudlin plots were intended to compete with Disney, rather than striking out on their own path. Rudy Ising ventured into funny cartoons earlier, and he directed the first of the Bear Family cartoons, which would eventually metamorph into MGM's Barney Bear series.
This one has some amusing slapstick, but the continued insistence on ornate, candybox backgrounds are a distraction from the fun.