“Ocean waves form merbabies who are summoned to a playground on the ocean floor.”
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.
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Cast
5 people
Pinto Colvig
Snails (voice)
Known for
Three Little Pigs
Saludos Amigos
George Magrill
Snails (voice)
Known for
The Haunted House
Marcellite Garner
Merbabies (voice)
Known for
Get a Horse!
Beatrice Hagen
Merbabies (voice)
Also in
Balloon Land
Make Believe Revue
Jayne Shadduck
Merbabies (voice)
Also in
Mickey Mouse Cartoons
Rudolf Ising Director · Vernon Stallings Director Pinto Colvig Story
Budget $57K · United States release December 9, 1938 · Produced in United States
Box office
Budget
$57,033
Production
Walt Disney Productions
Production
Walt Disney Studios
Production
RKO
Studio · Production
Harman-Ising Studio
Production
United States
Produced in
Little Mermaids
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · December 9, 1938
Theatrical
France
September 8, 2023 · Digital · Disney+
Israel
September 8, 2023 · Digital · Disney+
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