Magic Art
About Magic Art
Don the dog gets hold of a magic pencil after Waffles the cat has been painting. Don draws a top hat, and birds come out and dance on eggs. He draws silhouette fairies and lifts the edge of the background so they can pass under it. A blob of ink turns into a dachshund and then into sausages. A girl dog he draws vanishes back into the pencil. Waffles sucks the ink and spits out a rabbit. Don draws boots that walk past, a bum climbs out of one with a bottle, and a pig's tail is used as the corkscrew.
Cast & crew
More about Magic Art
John Foster and Harry Bailey directed it. Amadee J. Van Beuren produced it for the Aesop's Sound Fables series. Gene Rodemich is credited with the music. RKO released it on 25 April 1932. It runs 6 minutes.
Themes
Music
Gene Rodemich is credited with the music.
Notes
- Waffles is the tall cat and Don is the short dog.
- The short was made after Van Beuren's human Tom and Jerry were already on screen. Waffles and Don still behave like that animal pair.
- Van Beuren used the magic-pencil idea again the same year in Pencil Mania, with the human Tom and Jerry.
- It is an Aesop's Fables release and does not retell one fable.
Scenes
- Don lifts the edge of the background so the fairies can walk under it.
- An ink blob becomes a dachshund and then a string of sausages.
- A pig's tail is the corkscrew for the bottle.
Influenced
- Pencil Mania
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (John Foster and Harry Bailey - Aesop's Fables - Magic Art (1932).webm)
