Overview
The Old Mill Pond is a 1936 American animated short film in the Happy Harmonies series, directed by Hugh Harman for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio.
The short was nominated at the 1936 Academy Awards for Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film but lost to Disney's Silly Symphony short, The Country Cousin.
Summary
Fish and frogs gather at a pond. The performers are caricatures of Cab Calloway, Fats Waller, 'Bill "Bojangles' Robinson', Louis Armstrong, Stepin Fetchit, Ethel Waters and The Mills Brothers.
Sequel
The Old Mill Pond was followed by sequel, Swing Wedding in 1937.
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