| Merbabies | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Co-directed by: Rudolf Ising Vernon Stallings (both uncredited) Supervised by: the Walt Disney crew in the uncredited |
| Story by | Pinto Colvig Jonathan Caldwell Maurice Day (all uncredited) |
| Produced by | Walt Disney Hugh Harman (uncredited) Rudolf Ising (uncredited) |
| Starring | Pinto Colvig Leone LeDoux[1] |
| Music by | Musical directed and composed by: Scott Bradley (uncredited) |
| Animation by | Character animation: Lee Blair Thomas McKimson Carl Urbano Jim Pabian Pete Burness Michael Lah Melvin Shaw Rollin Hamilton Frank Smith Jack Zander (all uncredited) |
| Layouts by | Co-layouts: Don Smith John Niendorff Maurice Day (all uncredited) |
| Backgrounds by | Co-backgrounds: Art Riley Don Schaffer (both uncredited) |
| Color process | Technicolor |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
Release date | December 9, 1938 |
Running time | 8:34 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Merbabies is a Silly Symphonies animated Disney short film. It was released on December 9, 1938.[2] It is a collaboration between Walt Disney and Harman and Ising, the latter studio having donated artists to Disney to work on the production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). It is one of the last shorts of the Silly Symphonies series.
A large number of identical redheaded "merbabies" materialize out of the crashing surf and are summoned to a playground on the ocean floor for an underwater circus in which marine creatures such as seahorses and starfish also take part, beginning with a parade. When a whale blows all the merbabies to the surface inside bubbles, they disappear into the waves from which they came.[3]
