The Egg Cracker Suite

The Egg Cracker Suite is a 1943 Swing Symphony cartoon.
==Summary==
Oswald and other Easter Bunnies in an Easter egg plant get the eggs ready and colored in time for Easter. They make colors out of flowers and use baby rabbits as molds to make chocolate bunnies.
==Plot==
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, in his last animated short, conducts a symphony with a whole gaggle of hens (and one ostrich) to lay eggs for Easter. Each rabbit gets an egg, and the smallest one is (un)lucky enough to get the ostrich egg. Eggs are hard-boiled, then dyed, then the baskets are filled with grass, one egg, candy eggs, and topped with a bow before being loaded onto planes to be delivered all over the world. The poor bunny with the ostrich egg, however, is also loaded up with them when the egg hatches before he could get it in a plane, but all ends well for Easter.
==Trivia==
This title is a play on The Nutcracker Suite, composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. This cartoon would be Oswald the Rabbit's swan song. Though Oswald's screen career concludes in this cartoon, he would have a long run in comic books.
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit was a huge star during the 1930s. Most of his cartoons were produced in black and white. This was one of the few Oswalds produced in color.
First onscreen credit for Emery Hawkins at Lantz, and the only Lantz short directed by Ben Hardaway and Hawkins. Emery Hawkins would later co-direct Ration Bored (released in June) with Milt Schaffer.
Category:Cartoons
Category:Swing Symphony Cartoons
Category:Oswald Rabbit Cartoons
Category:1943 cartoons
Category:Walter Lantz Productions Cartoons