Six minutes of sentient pastries singing about carbs. 1950 animation was unhinged.
Sound
Catchy folk tune that will haunt your grocery store trips.
Director
Izzy Sparber
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Screen Songs were Paramount's answer to Disney's Silly Symphonies, designed to sell sheet music through infectious repetition.
The original folk song has plantation-era roots, making this cutesy animation a bizarrely sanitized artifact of its time.
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