Disney Drunken Dwarves

Pointless dancing, objects-as-instruments and lots of rubber hose animation. That’s why the early Silly Symphonys are lots of fun. Oh, and drunken dwarves.



This is a great drawing from “The Merry Dwarfs” (1929).

Yeah, I understand why Walt Disney evolved away from the rubber hose style and gave us the beautifully animated dwarves of “Snow White” a few years down the road. But the work of Ub Iwerks and his Disney confrères (Johnny Cannon and Les Clark perhaps?) is still a treat to watch.