Bottles (1936)★ 7.0/10
- Animation
- Fantasy
- Horror
- Musical
- Short
Directed by: Hugh Harman
A dark and stormy night in a drugstore. The druggist mixes a potion and falls asleep. The skull-and-crossbones on the bottle comes to life and drips the potion on the druggist, shrinking him. The baby bottles start crying (in three-part harmony). The druggist lights a lantern, then plays a perfume atomizer like bagpipes, bringing a bottle of Scotch Whiskey to life. Other bottles that come alive include smelling salts, bath salts, Listerine, perfume, india ink (doing a snake charmer bit with some Cobra toothpaste). A Dutch boy and girl go figure skating on a mirror, with help from some talcum-powder snow. The druggist wraps a pipe around himself and plays it as a tuba. The skull and crossbones hatch a nefarious scheme, helped by the witch hazel and spirits of ammonia ghosts. He gets sent through distilling apparatus and is otherwise mangled and then he wakes up.
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Cast & crew
The Guardsmen QuartetRum Bottles (uncredited)Bernice HansenJunior Bottle (uncredited)Rudolf IsingOld Druggist (uncredited)
Delos JewkesAsorbine Bottle (uncredited)Three Rhythm KingsVocalists (uncredited)Dudley KuzelleShaving Mug (uncredited)
Frank NelsonLaughing Skull (uncredited)The Three HarmonettesSinging Baby Bottles (uncredited)Allan WatsonScotch Bottle (uncredited)
Martha WentworthWitch Hazel (uncredited)