Broadway Folly
About Broadway Folly
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit compresses his car so it will fit in his shorts and goes into a nightclub. A wolf parks his cub on a lamppost in pajamas. Inside, dogs sing "Sweet Adeline" and get the hook, and the crowd dances to "Alexander's Ragtime Band." Oswald kicks the wolf by accident, the wolf rips Oswald's head off, and Oswald screws it back on and beans him with a jar. A laugh passes from a cow to a mouse to an elephant, and the building empties into a brawl. A police car hauls the nightclub away. The cub tears open a telephone booth and finds a Tibetan man inside.
Cast & crew
More about Broadway Folly
Walter Lantz directed. Rollin Hamilton, Bill Nolan, and Tom Palmer animated it. David Broekman wrote the music. Universal released it on 3 March 1930.
Themes
Background
Lantz had taken over Oswald the Lucky Rabbit after Walt Disney left Universal. This is one of the 1930 nightclub cartoons from that run.
Music
David Broekman is credited with the music. The club band plays "Alexander's Ragtime Band," and four dogs sing "Sweet Adeline."
Preservation
The cartoon survives.
Notes
- The cub's line "Is my father in there?" was reused in two later Lantz cartoons.
- The cub left on the lamppost is a poke at temperance melodramas such as "Father, Dear Father.
- Oswald's head comes off and goes back on in the same scene.
- Black and white, with a recorded music track.
Scenes
- Oswald folds the car small enough to pocket.
- The wolf yanks Oswald's head off and Oswald puts it back.
- A police car drives off with the whole nightclub.
Quotes
Is my father in there?
