Barnyard Babies

There's A 'Better Babies' contest going on in the big red barn. The eggs aren't due to hatch until after, so the rooster tries to speed up the process by hard-boiling the eggs. Meanwhile, the other critters perform on a makeshift stage in this early two-strip Technicolor Harman-Ising cartoon for MGM.

The style of animation and drawing hasn't changed much from their work for Leon Schlesinger, although it's more detailed, particularly in the backgrounding. The color work is also simpler, with a lot of browns -- appropriate, if not particularly interesting. Meanwhile, the effort is that overly cute style of storytelling that bores me to sleep.