Merbabies

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  • Pinto Colvig
  • Leone LeDoux{{Cite book |last=Scott |first=Keith |title=Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2 |date=3 October 2022 |publisher=BearManor Media |page=531 |language=en}}

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| music = Scott Bradley

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  • Don Smith
  • John Niendorff
  • Maurice Day

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  • Art Riley
  • Don Schaffer

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| distributor = RKO Radio Pictures

| released = {{Film date|1938|12|09}}

| color_process = Technicolor

| runtime = 8:34

| country = United States

| language = English

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Merbabies is a Silly Symphonies animated Disney short film. It was released on December 9, 1938.{{Cite book |last=Merritt |first=Russell |title=Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies: A Companion to the Classic Cartoon Series |last2=Kaufman |first2=J. B. |publisher=Disney Editions |year=2016 |isbn=978-1-4847-5132-9 |edition=2nd |location=Glendale, CA |pages=200–203}} It is a collaboration between Walt Disney and Harman and Ising, the latter studio having donated artists to Disney to work on the production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). It is one of the last shorts of the Silly Symphonies series.

Plot

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A large number of identical redheaded "merbabies" materialize out of the crashing surf and are summoned to a playground on the ocean floor for an underwater circus in which marine creatures such as seahorses and starfish also take part, beginning with a parade. When a whale blows all the merbabies to the surface inside bubbles, they disappear into the waves from which they came."[https://archive.today/20140706172150/http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon_story/4200-Merbabies.html Merbabies]". www.bcdb.com, July 1, 2014

Home media

The short was released on the DVD of The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea and again on December 19, 2006, on Walt Disney Treasures: More Silly Symphonies, Volume Two. It was released to Disney+ on September 8, 2023, with a 4K restoration.{{Cite web |last=The D23 Team |date=June 19, 2023 |title=Disney+ to Debut 28 Restored Classic Walt Disney Animation Studios Shorts |url=https://d23.com/disney-to-debut-28-restored-classic-walt-disney-animation-studios-shorts/ |access-date=June 19, 2023 |website=D23}}

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