Monkey Leads The Band
Monkey Leads The Band
"This cartoon fable features an ambitious monkey's efforts to organize his furry friends into a musical ensemble. The bewildered and clumsy group learn that patience and cooperation can bring about great successes." Communism, Socialism.
Monkey Leads The Band
Title credit. A boy works in a watercoloring book; illustrated creatures come to life with his brush strokes. First a jazz ensemble of identical, smiling rabbits play a song. The band however is soon disrupted by a monkey who pushes them off the stage and takes their instruments (a drum set, a trombone, a bass and a fiddle). The monkey distributes the instruments to his friends: a donkey, a goat and a bear. The new ensemble has no luck putting together a song, the monkey getting pushed about because of his bandmates' clumsiness.
Monkey Leads The Band
The animated band of animals try to make music again, only with similar results of ineptitude and clumsiness. The monkey goes berzerk and solos until his violin combusts. The animals fight, causing the boy to close the book; he opens it back up to happily find the rabbits back together jammin' out their swing song. Credits role interspersed with individual jammin' rabbits