Plot (such as it is) likewise feels tired, with a spider losing an athletic event but stealing the homecoming queen anyway, and dueling the fly hero until he takes multiple stabs in the abdomen, leaking blood, and falls from a tree to his doom. The film itself is also less than memorable, with Terry still mired in the old ways of his silent productions, making no attempt to synchronize animation to any pre-planned cues, and filming all sequences at a ridiculously low frame rate that makes them look impossibly fast when projected at sound speed (it is so bad in this installment, one wonders if this was a new cartoon at all, or merely a reissue with sound of one actually produced years before, as several later releases (such as Happy Polo) in fact were. Aside from these presumptions, nothing in the film would otherwise justify its title, which might just as easily have fit under the later release title, The King of Bugs. Without any specific explanation, we can only presume that an athletic competition going on in the film is premised as being something intercollegiate, and that a bug couple wearing crowns are not real royalty, but a homecoming king and queen.
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However, one can never be so sure that even these titles truly pertain to the subject, if later installments in the Aesop series are any indication.Īn example is Bughouse College Days (9/4/29 – Paul Terry, dir.), which seems to have nearly nothing to do with education except in its title.
Anyone with information on these or other silent titles is invited to contribute. The few titles I have located (unfortunately, without viewable films to go with them) that give indication of falling within this article’s subject matter are Good Old College Days (Terry, Aesop’s Fables, 1924), School Days (Terry, Aesop’s Fables, 1926), and School Daze (Krazy Kat (Winkler?) 9/10/27). I am actually quite surprised at not encountering at least giveaway episode titles among such juvenile-centered series as Bobby Bumps, Dinky Doodles, or the more obscure Katzenjammer Kids. The silent era again remain an inaccessible mystery for surviving cartoons on the subject, though I would not doubt that there are survivors somewhere not divulged by researching their titles alone among Terry “Aesop’s Fables”, and possibly other series as well. And so too follow our toons, in nostalgic recollection of how they learned to be funny, that demonstrate that things haven’t changed much on the road to higher learning in nearly 100 years – if you overlook the abolishment of corporal punishment, and the advent of hand-held computers and cell phones. Whether it be the alma mater of a prestigious university, the advanced training of a trade or graduate school, or the little country school house or middle school, everyone of all classes is heading back to classes.
Like it or not, the nation faces a return, after a long hiatus, to a tradition as old as the hills – face to face, classroom education.