Woodland Café is a Silly Symphony cartoon released in 1937.
Synopsis
In a nightclub staffed and frequented entirely by insects, the stage show has a good girl fly resisting the advances of a bad-boy spider. Everyone dances, even the snails, as the orchestra plays jazz on their instruments made of flowers.
Trivia
- In one scene, a female fly and a male spider are both shown smoking during a dance routine. Airings of The Ink and Paint Club on the Disney Channel censored the female fly's smoking, but not the male spider's smoking!
- Similarly, on The Ink and Paint Club, portions of the "Everybody's Truckin'" number were deleted because the grasshopper band resembled African-American stereotypes.
- Scenes from this cartoon were used during the song The Ugly Bug Ball on DTV, in Disney Sing Along Songs: The Bare Necessities and also the music video, Dr. Looney's Remedy in Parachute Express' Come Sing With Us.
- On the Limited Gold Edition Silly Symphonies VHS, it uses the 1948 burlap re-issue titles, but on the Extreme Music Fun DVD, the 1937 Original United Artists titles had been restored.
Releases
Television
- The Mickey Mouse Club, October 26, 1956
- The Mouse Factory, episode #2.26: "Dancing"
- Mickey's Mouse Tracks, episode #65
- Donald's Quack Attack, episodes #37 & #76
- The Ink and Paint Club, episode #1.38: "Infested Silly Symphonies"
Home video
- Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Limited Gold Editions: Silly Symphonies (VHS)
- Walt Disney Treasures: Silly Symphonies (DVD)
- Walt Disney's Classic Cartoon Favorites: Extreme Music Fun (DVD)
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