The Clock Shop

The Clock Shop
Title card
Directed byWilfred Jackson
Produced byWalt Disney
Music byFrank Churchill
Color processBlack and white
Production
company
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • September 28, 1931 (1931-09-28)
Running time
7 min
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Clock Shop is a 1931 American animated short film directed by Wilfred Jackson. It is the 22nd film of the Silly Symphonies series. Due to Columbia Pictures' poor preservation of old films, the only surviving print is an existing vault print retained by Disney titled The Clock Store.

Plot

The various clocks and watches in a clock store dance, ring alarms musically, and otherwise entertain the audience in an after hours presentation.

Reception

Variety (November 17, 1931): "Familiar idea of clocks and figures gyrating to musical rhythm. Done before and under the same name if memory recalls, but with live figures instead of cartoon. Here as a cartoon offering a pleasant novelty filler for any program, although not hilariously so".

Home media

The short was released on December 19, 2006, on Walt Disney Treasures: More Silly Symphonies, Volume Two.

References

  1. 1 2 Merritt, Russell; Kaufman, J. B. (2016). Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies: A Companion to the Classic Cartoon Series (2nd ed.). Glendale, CA: Disney Editions. pp. 98–99. ISBN 978-1-4847-5132-9.
  2. ↑ "Talking Shorts". Variety: 14. November 17, 1931. Retrieved February 23, 2020.