The rooster shows Oswald his new fire-fighting invention. It's an elephant who squirts water out his trunk, mounted on roller skates, so he can travel more easily on the winding country roads.
It's an amusing cartoon, and of particular interest to fans of cartoons. It was written -- and possibly even directed -- by Charley Bowers. Bowers had begun as a straight cartoonist, but in the middle of the 1920s moved into live-action shorts involving weird and very funny inventions. Although his shorts are esteemed by those who know his work, his progress into directing was erratic. He wound up doing some inventive industrial films -- including Joseph Losey's directorial debut -- and died in 1946, age 69. I suspect that he made a living in the early 1930s as a gag man, but the record is scant. Not for him the well-known success of fellow former cartoonist, Gregory La cava, who moved into live action directing few years before Bowers, and who directed MY MAN GODFREY.
It's an amusing cartoon, and of particular interest to fans of cartoons. It was written -- and possibly even directed -- by Charley Bowers. Bowers had begun as a straight cartoonist, but in the middle of the 1920s moved into live-action shorts involving weird and very funny inventions. Although his shorts are esteemed by those who know his work, his progress into directing was erratic. He wound up doing some inventive industrial films -- including Joseph Losey's directorial debut -- and died in 1946, age 69. I suspect that he made a living in the early 1930s as a gag man, but the record is scant. Not for him the well-known success of fellow former cartoonist, Gregory La cava, who moved into live action directing few years before Bowers, and who directed MY MAN GODFREY.
