This is a short made late in the life of the UPA studio. There will be spoilers ahead:
UPA did four shorts centered around the two characters named Ham and Hattie. Each short has original music, two short songs connected with the two characters.
In this short, Spring is the Hattie cartoon and shows Hattie enjoying the move from winter to spring, with scenes of a romance between two of Hattie's dolls, birds singing and other harbingers of spring. It's a simple, rather nondescript piece.
The other half, Saganaki, is a Ham short. Ham is a magician who portrays others in his shorts. Here, he's a woodchopper named Saganaki, who dreams of being a samurai. That kind of career advancement didn't typically happen in Japanese society. This segment is moderately cute but not much beyond that. The songs are rather pedestrian.
This short can be found on a three disc collection, the Jolly Frolics Collection released through Turner Classic Movies. This short is worth watching once and the collection itself is marvelous. Recommended.
UPA did four shorts centered around the two characters named Ham and Hattie. Each short has original music, two short songs connected with the two characters.
In this short, Spring is the Hattie cartoon and shows Hattie enjoying the move from winter to spring, with scenes of a romance between two of Hattie's dolls, birds singing and other harbingers of spring. It's a simple, rather nondescript piece.
The other half, Saganaki, is a Ham short. Ham is a magician who portrays others in his shorts. Here, he's a woodchopper named Saganaki, who dreams of being a samurai. That kind of career advancement didn't typically happen in Japanese society. This segment is moderately cute but not much beyond that. The songs are rather pedestrian.
This short can be found on a three disc collection, the Jolly Frolics Collection released through Turner Classic Movies. This short is worth watching once and the collection itself is marvelous. Recommended.
