As Room and Bored begins we see the Fox in his apartment at peace playing the violin. We then pull back to an Apartment for Rent sign that says, "Quiet, refined tenant preferred" signed by the Fox. Screeching through the door a few minutes later is a van occupied by the Crow who accepts the offer before the Fox could refuse it! Crow then throws out the classical piano and tears down the refined wallpaper and puts out various street signs and pinup posters as the Fox brings the player piano and other of the Crow's stuff. Fox's last nerve later gets worked out when the Crow overflows his bathtub and he throws him out. Crow gets sympathy from him, however, when he dresses as a hobo, cries, and shows him the blizzard out the window (revealed outside as Jivory Soap Flakes pouring above). This confuses the Fox as it's July. So as the Crow keeps playing his music, the Fox keeps putting coal in the furnace, gets hotter, and eventually pours coffee in one ear and out the other...Loved the shaking animation during the Crow music sequences. While one feels sorry for the Fox character, the way he deals with his lot can be so hilarious especially in scenes like when the piano falls on him. Worth seeing for fans of '40s animation and anyone curious about the Columbia animation output of that time.
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Favorite Fox and Crow cartoon
ja_kitty_7123 February 2017
This is the first Fox & Crow cartoon I had ever reviewed. I have had watched this cartoon series from Columbia Pictures on YouTube, and I'm starting to like those two guys as a fox-lover. This short has to be my favorite and it shows nice character study between the refined, fastidious fox and the loud, obnoxious, rough-neck "New-Yorkese" crow.
I thought the part where Crow shooting a toy Japanese warship with a real pistol in the bath and the "rapids ride" down the stairs, when the bath water was drain by the holes the gun made was a little funny. I like this cartoon because I would act out lines from it, and I would make those lines a little more funny. Overall, my last word is that it's a really good short, and I still think there should a DVD with all of the Fox & Crow cartoons.
I thought the part where Crow shooting a toy Japanese warship with a real pistol in the bath and the "rapids ride" down the stairs, when the bath water was drain by the holes the gun made was a little funny. I like this cartoon because I would act out lines from it, and I would make those lines a little more funny. Overall, my last word is that it's a really good short, and I still think there should a DVD with all of the Fox & Crow cartoons.
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