Fiddlin' Fun

Name: Fiddlin' Fun
Director: Vernon Stallings
Genre: Animation
Released: 1934
Duration: 7 min

1934 Animation 7 minutes Directed by Vernon Stallings

About Fiddlin' Fun

Cubby the Bear enters a Roman chariot race for his girlfriend. He fiddles through the race. A pig in a laurel crown plays a violin in the stands, and vendors sell peanuts and hot dogs. Cubby beats the other drivers.

Cast & crew

Vernon Stallings Director

More about Fiddlin' Fun

Vernon Stallings directed the Cubby Bear short. Steve Muffati animated it. Winston Sharples wrote the score. Amedee J. Van Beuren produced it. RKO released it on 15 June 1934. It runs 7 minutes. It is filed both as a Cubby Bear cartoon and as an Aesop's Fables release.

Themes

A race run to a fiddle
A pig playing Nero
Hot dogs in a Roman stand
Cubby the Bear
chariot race
fiddle
Nero
Van Beuren
girlfriend

Making

Stallings stages one race and loads it with anachronisms: a fiddle, a hot-dog vendor, and a bear in a chariot.

Music

Winston Sharples wrote the score. Cubby fiddles during the race.

Preservation

A print survives.

Notes

The fiddling pig is a Nero gag.
The race gags borrow the shape of the chariot race in Ben-Hur.
The crowd is a modern stadium crowd dropped into the arena.
On the Van Beuren list it sits between Mild Cargo and the end of the Cubby series.

Scenes

Cubby fiddles from the chariot.
A laurel-crowned pig plays violin in the stands.
Vendors work the crowd with peanuts and hot dogs.

Influenced by

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Also available

Wikimedia Commons (Vernon Stallings - Aesop's Fables - Fiddlin' Fun (1934).webm)