Cartoon a Day: Cock O' The Walk

Cock O' The Walk
1935
Directed by Ben Sharpsteen (uncredited)
Available on: Walt Disney Treasures - More Silly Symphonies

You may have noticed that I missed yesterdays "Cartoon a Day" entry. I did watch a cartoon but had trouble getting the images, so I waited to post until today.


Years ago, I reviewed this short on the Internet Movie Database. I described it as "Busby Berkeley meets Colonel Sanders." In this short, the "Cock O' the Walk" comes to town and woos a chicken away from another rooster. All the other adoring fans of the cock launch into a big musical number and eventually a fight between the two roosters occurs.


This short is a lot of fun. Very colorful and detailed. It is especially worth noting the great range in design of the various chickens and other birds. Just a few years earlier, the black and white Silly Symphonies tended to feature animals that all looked alike. But here we see great advances in character design being made. This is another example of the great achievements made in the Silly Symphonies series.