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All's Fair At The Fair
The cartoon opens showing a vacant mound like a garbage pile that magically transforms into an Oz like city of the future with stenciled sky writing and search lights. People arive in droves, piling out of sardine cans functioning as subway cars.
Elmer and Mirandy have left the farm with horse and wagon while cars zoom past them. A crane with an electro-magnet picks up the cars of each
arrivals and stacks them neatly in the parking lot. Since the horse is flesh and bones, the magnet has trouble picking up the country vehicle until transforms into claws. It then gently picks up the horse and wagon, and places it at the top of the pile.
The rural couple walks through the fair in a wonderful Stereoptical backround set up designed in Art Deco. They witness a number of modern inventions such as and automatic knitting machine complete with its own sheep, whose hind quarters play jump rope with the unraveling wool yarn.
There is a machine that punches out wooden furniture from a log, and a prefab machine that builds instant houses topped off with a delivery from the stork. Seeing this, Mirandy remarks, "Ain't that wonderful?" Elmer returns, "Nope!"
They come to an automated Beauty and Barber Shop and try them. Inside the Beauty Shop, Mirandy, is given the works all the way from a mud pack thrown at her by a spinning car tire, to bleaching her hair in a vat resemble a beeker from Dr. Frankenstein's lab. She then steps into a figure-forming machine and losses 20 pounds!
Elmer becomes modernized too, with a slick haircut. Seeing the transformed Mirandy, he flirts, suddenly realizing it's his own wife. They go into an automated dance hall where by placing a coin in a slot, a robot comes out to teach dancing. Seeing how much funn Elmer is having, Mirandy does the same thing too, and they learn a form of Rumba that resembles a Fox Trot. Passing an auto vending machine, Elmer puts in a coin and out pops a new model car. Mirandy gets in, and passing the parking lot, they pick up the horse, Softbuiscuit, and drive off into the rising Moon.
This short obviously was made in anticipation of the 1939 New York World's Fair, and is a nice historical reference to that event beside being plain enertaining as well.
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