Credits: Supervision by – Rudolf Ising / Isadore Freleng Summary: Wacky antics at a baby factory. Description: A flock of baby-carrying storks is flying out of a heavenly baby factory. Inside, an old man is answering the phones and taking orders for new babies. One of these orders comes from “Mr. and Mrs. Nanook of the North”, who are asking for twins. The old man takes two Eskimo babies out of a freezer and places them in the upper and lower “births”of a stork, who then flies off. The next order, written in Hebrew, is sent directly to the stock room. They send back a curly-haired big-nosed baby, and the old man stamps “Kosher for Passover”on his bottom [LT&MM]. The man and the baby begin singing their own version of “Shuffle Off to Buffalo”, during which the baby dances his way into the nursery. The children in the nursery join in, with three girls in a crib singing chorus and another baby doing a Maurice Chevalier impersonation. Moving on to the inner workings of the factory itself, we watch as an army of gnomes works on the babies. They are cleaned in washing machines, blow dried, sprinkled with powdered by a pepper mill, patted on the bottom, and diapered with paper towels which are then stapled shut. One of the babies soils himself after he’s been diapered, so the gnome picks him up and drops him into the washing machine again. Next, the babies are fed milk through gasoline pumps, taken by conveyor belt into a crib, and finally rolled into the nursery. The children in the nursery are now crying and screaming, so a gnome shouts “What do you want?! What do you want?!”. The babies respond by chanting “We want Cantor! We want Cantor!”. Another gnome appears from behind a curtain and pulls off his mask, revealing himself to be — Eddie Cantor! He begins to sing, but the babies aren’t very appreciative and yell at him to “Shuffle off to Buffalo”. Cantor responds by impersonating Ed Wynn, while a Chinese baby asks us to watch the Gold Dust twins dance across the nursery. Cantor then appears at a piano with an all-gnome musical band, and the babies really start whooping it up. They dance all over the nursery, and some even make their own music by plucking mattress springs and banging on bed pans. The cartoon ends with a smiling Cantor surrounded by dozens of happy babies. Notes:
Memorable Scenes: Video Availability: VHS: Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Vol. 1: 1930s Musicals
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