Arctic Antics
About Arctic Antics
The title card fades into a polar landscape. A mother polar bear kicks her cub off an ice floe the cub is using as a surfboard, and the cub later drives a block of ice with its tail. Bears, seals, and walruses dance and swim. A walrus chases a fish and loses it. Four seals dance and dive. Another seal plays with its food until the others close in and eat it. A seal tries to play the walrus like an instrument. The walrus scares the seal off, sings, winds itself up, and wins a fish. Penguins parade. A tiny penguin will not pay attention to a large one. They whistle out on "The Wooden Soldier" and the picture fades.
Cast & crew
More about Arctic Antics
A Silly Symphony, produced by Walt Disney and released by Columbia Pictures on June 26, 1930. Ub Iwerks's name is on the draft, but he had left the studio four months before the animators started. Burt Gillett took over Iwerks's unit and finished the short. Bert Lewis wrote the music. Backgrounds are by Emil Flohri and Carlos Manríquez.
Themes
Making
Gillett inherited the cartoon after Iwerks left. He reused two scenes he had already directed in Wild Waves rather than redrawing them.
Music
Bert Lewis wrote the score. The penguin parade whistles the ending of "The Wooden Soldier."
Notes
- The singing walrus and the applauding seals are drawings taken from Wild Waves, a Mickey Mouse short Gillett directed in late 1929.
- Animators included Wilfred Jackson, David Hand, Les Clark, Norman Ferguson, Ben Sharpsteen, Dick Lundy, Johnny Cannon, and Jack King.
- The seals move on the beat of Bert Lewis's score.
- Walt Disney Treasures issued it on December 19, 2006, in More Silly Symphonies, Volume Two.
Scenes
- A mother bear boots her cub off a surfing ice floe.
- A seal tries to play a walrus like a musical instrument.
- The walrus sings, winds itself like a machine, and is handed a fish.
- Penguins parade out on "The Wooden Soldier.
Influenced by
- Wild Waves
Also available
- Walt Disney Treasures: More Silly Symphonies, Volume Two (2006)
