Rhythm in the Bow

Released Oct. 20, 1934. Title song is by Cliff Hess. Animation of locomotive 515 appeared in a number of cartoons. Also heard: Shuffle Off to Buffalo (2:00), The Year of Jubilo (2:57), Träumerei (3:22), Singing in the Bathtub (4:00). Why do hobos have kids in backbacks?

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Film & Animation

[springofpiesucks]

this is actually the last cartoon in B&W from this point on, all merrie melodes are in color.

[jgbennie]

After watching this, you can sure see why Avery was hired and Hardaway moved back into the story dept.

[HomeoftheGoodGuys]

The opening and closing titles are from "Honeymoon Hotel", the first MM cartoon in color back in 1934.

[SteveCarras]

Very bad title print..I knew the title of the song at 3:22 from "Malibu Beach Party"[Friz Freleng, WB, 1940] as Jack Benny plays hsi violin as introduces the song as such. "Daffy Duck and Egghead" had the song as well before Daffy laspes into his theme song.

[MWolfL]

A cartoon that revolves solely around hobos, not surprising considering that hobos were very common during The Great Depression, which is when this cartoon first came out. Unfortunately, hobos didn't have the fun and carefree life depicted here. Actually, it was dangerous being a hobo. Jumping onto a moving train was harder and more dangerous than it looked, especially since they had to worry about officials finding them. Hobos also were not trusted by many prejudice people. Sad, isn't it?

[springofpiesucks]

and i think Hardaway went back to directing in 1938 (i believe) and usaully worked with Cal Dalton.

[springofpiesucks]

BTW that train animation started in 1932 in a Bosko cartoon called "Bosko And Bruno", and was reused a lot throughout some cartoons made in the 30"s.