Country School

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Country School
Directed by Walter Lantz
Bill Nolan
Produced byWalter Lantz
Music byJames Dietrich
Animation by Clyde Geronimi
Manuel Moreno
Ray Abrams
Tex Avery
Lester Kline
Chet Karrberg
Pinto Colvig
Color processBlack and white
Production
company
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date
  • May 5, 1931 (1931-05-05)
Language English

Country School is a 1931 animated short film by Walter Lantz Productions and stars Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. [1]

Plot

Oswald and his girlfriend Kitty are going to school, but are late. The teacher later plays a song for all of the students, but a hippo blows a raspberry at the teacher and puts a balloon in Oswald's shorts, so the teacher smacks Oswald, at which the balloon burst. The teacher announces that school is dismissed, then finally everyone runs back home.

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References

  1. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 115–116. ISBN   0-8160-3831-7.