Merbabies (1938)
AnimationMusicComedyFamilyFantasy
Walt Disney enlisted former colleagues Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising to help create this underwater Silly Symphony. Ocean waves form merbabies who are summoned to an aquatic circus playground on the sea floor, where they interact with a parade of seahorses, starfish and other marine life, before disappearing into the surface from which they came.
Directors: Rudolf Ising, Vernon Stallings.
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Pinto Colvig as Snails (voice) |
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George Magrill as Snails (voice) |
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Marcellite Garner as Merbabies (voice) |
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Beatrice Hagen as Merbabies (voice) |
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Jayne Shadduck as Merbabies (voice) |
| Directing | Rudolf Ising | Director |
| Directing | Maurice "Jake" Day | Layout |
| Sound | Scott Bradley | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Rudolf Ising | Producer |
| Production | Hugh Harman | Producer |
| Directing | Vernon Stallings | Director |
| Crew | Walt Disney | Presenter |
| Art | Art Riley | Background Designer |
| Visual Effects | Rollin Hamilton | Animation |
| Writing | Maurice "Jake" Day | Story |
| Visual Effects | Lee Blair | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Pete Burness | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Manuel Moreno | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Melvin Schwartzman | Animation |
| Writing | Pinto Colvig | Story |
| Visual Effects | Thomas McKimson | Animation |
| Directing | John Niendforff | Layout |
| Visual Effects | Carl Urbano | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Michael Lah | Animation |
| Writing | Johnny Caldwell | Story |
| Directing | Don Smith | Layout |
| Art | Donald Schaffer | Background Designer |
| Visual Effects | Francis Smith | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Jim Pabian | Animation |