Woodland Café

Woodland Café
Directed by	Wilfred Jackson
Produced by	Walt Disney
Written by	Isadore Klein Bianca Majolie Dick Rickard
Starring	Clarrie Collins Jimmie Cushman Marie Dickerson CeePee Johnson James Miller Thelma Porter Eddie Prinz
Music by	Oliver Wallace
Studio(s)	Walt Disney Productions
Distributor	United Artists
Released	March 13, 1937
Language	English
Preceded by	More Kittens
Followed by	Little Hiawatha

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.

Songs

• "12th Street Rag" (originally written by Euday L. Bowman)
• Valse des rayons (during the French Apache dance, composed by Jacques Offenbach)
• "Truckin'" (music by Ted Koehler, lyrics by Rube Bloom)

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 was restored.

Releases

Television

• The Mickey Mouse Club, October 26, 1956
• The Mouse Factory, episode #2.26: "Dancing"
• Walt Disney's Mickey and Donald, episode #79
• 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)

Gallery

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1929 The Skeleton Dance • El Terrible Toreador • Springtime • Hell's Bells • The Merry Dwarfs 1930 Summer • Autumn • Cannibal Capers • Frolicking Fish • Arctic Antics • Midnight in a Toy Shop • Night • Monkey Melodies • Winter • Playful Pan 1931 Birds of a Feather • Mother Goose Melodies • The China Plate • The Busy Beavers • The Cat's Out • Egyptian Melodies • The Clock Store • The Spider and the Fly • The Fox Hunt (1931 short) • The Ugly Duckling (1931) 1932 The Bird Store • The Bears and Bees • Just Dogs • Flowers and Trees • King Neptune • Bugs in Love • Babes in the Woods • Santa's Workshop 1933 Birds in the Spring • Father Noah's Ark • Three Little Pigs • Old King Cole • Lullaby Land • The Pied Piper • The Night Before Christmas 1934 The China Shop • The Grasshopper and the Ants • Funny Little Bunnies • The Big Bad Wolf • The Wise Little Hen • The Flying Mouse • Peculiar Penguins • The Goddess of Spring 1935 The Tortoise and the Hare • The Golden Touch • The Robber Kitten • Water Babies • The Cookie Carnival • Who Killed Cock Robin? • Music Land • Three Orphan Kittens • Cock o' the Walk • Broken Toys 1936 Elmer Elephant • Three Little Wolves • Toby Tortoise Returns • Three Blind Mouseketeers • The Country Cousin • Mother Pluto • More Kittens 1937 Woodland Café • Little Hiawatha • The Old Mill 1938 The Moth and the Flame • Wynken, Blynken and Nod • Farmyard Symphony • Merbabies • Mother Goose Goes Hollywood 1939 The Practical Pig • The Ugly Duckling