pixrox1 Review of The Barnyard Broadcast

The Barnyard Broadcast (1931)

This brief cartoon offers excellent proof as to how much . . .

[7/10 · 26 December 2021]

. . . the Dizzy Corporation always has hated anything associated with Music. THE BARNYARD BROADCAST delights in smashing a fiddle in half, trashing a piano, ripping apart a harp and destroying a saxophone. Film historians state that Dizzy cartoons ruin an average of 1.7 musical instruments every five minutes. Dizzy's animated features are even more egregious than the pernicious shorts, generally featuring sappy Princesses pining away in soulless ditties. The famous penny-pinching namesake for this song-snuffing studio hated the necessity for paying anybody else involved in the audio of a flick. He tried to beat Mel Blanc at his own game, voicing as many as five characters per cartoon. Even the brain behind originating the "Silly Symphonies," Carl W. Stalling, could tolerate this animus toward everything musical for a few months, soon fleeing the music-hating Dizzy den for the merrier melodies of Warner Bros.