This very basic animation ('Laugh-o-Matic') was one of Walt Disney's first ventures into the world of animation, and into the fairytale of Cinderella, which he would eventually release as a feature cartoon in 1950.
Crudely drawn, this cartoon still has the hallmarks of Disney - the characters have personality even within the limits of the drawings, the story is funny as well as sentimental, and all of the story is there including the run away at midnight as the spell is broken (which leads to a nice gag involving the Prince which I won't spoil here).
A delight to watch just to see where the seed of the idea for the eventual movie success came from. It can be found on the DVD of Cinderella, Special Edition, as an extra.
Crudely drawn, this cartoon still has the hallmarks of Disney - the characters have personality even within the limits of the drawings, the story is funny as well as sentimental, and all of the story is there including the run away at midnight as the spell is broken (which leads to a nice gag involving the Prince which I won't spoil here).
A delight to watch just to see where the seed of the idea for the eventual movie success came from. It can be found on the DVD of Cinderella, Special Edition, as an extra.