a walt disney silly symphony cartoon short . the merbabies be frolic beneath the salt wave swim and play with various sea creature . an elaborate underwater circus parade and performance fill much of their day and culminating in a rise to the surface in the expelled breath of a whale at sunset . while the plot be virtually invisible in this little film and there much to fill the eye a the colorful image cavort about the screen . the real significance of this cartoon be that it give the folk in disney animation some excellent experience in work with the particular aspect of underwater scene ( bubble movement and light and shadow ) which would be so important in the under sea sequence in pinocchio . the silly symphony and which walt disney produce for a ten year period beginning in 1929 and be among the most interesting of series in the field of animation . unlike the mickey mouse cartoon in which action be paramount and with the symphony the action be make to fit the music . there be little plot in the early symphony and which feature lively inanimate object and anthropomorphic plant and animal and all move frantically to the soundtrack . gradually and however and the symphony become the school where walt animator learn to work with color and begin to experiment with plot and characterization and photographic special effect . the page of fable and fairy tale and myth and mother goose be all mine to provide story line and even hollywood musical and celebrity be effectively spoof . it be from this rich soil that disney feature length animation be to spring . in 1939 and with snow white successfully behind him and pinocchio and fantasia on the near horizon and walt phase out the silly symphony while they have run their course and serve their purpose .