For those who want a more complete picture than that given in this earlier entry, here is the great Stanley Unwin to explain further. (Found via enthusiasm.)
Hope that's all straight now. On the subject of Stanley Unwin, I never realised that he was the star of a very peculiar Gerry Anderson Supermarionation series, The Secret Service. Apparently every week Father Stanley Unwin foiled someone's evil plan by talking nonsense, and sometimes taking the form of a puppet.
Today is the first day of spring, it's official. This Happy Harmonies cartoon from 1936 explains how the technology behind spring works - helpful if you're living in the UK and feeling a bit confused about why it's snowing. It's worth watching til the end to see the test tubes really doing their stuff.
If like me you are suffering from flu, can I recommend this demented Busby Berkeley number as a distraction. It makes a perfect kind of sense when you’re feeling a bit feverish anyway. A poor little seamstress falls asleep and dreams of blonde lovelies made into harps.
If you’re really spaced out you could try the Shadow Waltz - it starts fairly normally but wait til the neon violins turn up:
From the Thirties film Stolen Harmony, with George Raft.
Animals take a romantic rocket trip in this lovely Max Fleischer cartoon from 1935.
Eye of the Goof has this crazy seduction-by-drum solo from the film Phantom Lady. Elisha Cook has a lusty expression not seen since the eye-popping, table-banging wolf in Red Hot Riding Hood, and the lady in the gauze hat appears to have gone completely feral.