Merbabies

Merbabies is a 1938 Silly Symphonies cartoon directed by Rudolf Ising and Vernon Stallings.
==Summary==
A salt water version of Water Babies; adorable redheaded 'merbabies' materialize out of the crashing surf and proceed to the sea floor where they conduct a circus along with a variety of sea creatures.
==Plot==
Various redheaded "merbabies" materialize out of the crashing surf and are summoned to a playground on the floor of the ocean for an underwater circus. When a whale blows them all to the surface, they disappear into the waves from which they came.
==Trivia==
The salt water sequel to Water Babies.
Due to Disney's high volume of cartoon production, the studio got a little ahead of itself. Disney contracted out the production of three Silly Symphonies shorts- Merbabies, Pipe Dreams, and The Little Bantamweight- to Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising. Of the three, Disney only kept one (Merbabies), with the other two being sold to MGM, who released them as Happy Harmonies cartoons.
This was one of the only Disney shorts to be farmed out to another studio. It was produced by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising's new Harman-Ising studio when the workload at Walt Disney Studios became too great.
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