So this isn't quite my type of Silly Symphony but the artistry of it is fairly impressive, if not exactly their best. I like some of the animations, the backgrounds are well detailed and it's a little more elaborate looking than a lot of the Symphonies of this time in the production run, I do like the orchestration of the motions of the characters and the sound of the woman's odd shoes, I thought it was cleverly done. I just generally prefer the short animations that are set in nature or have more fun and novel ideas for their themes, like I would probably have liked this one more if it had featured a cast of walking china plates or something, knowing this series I'm sure there's sometime similar out there somewhere! The short begins with the beautifully detailed image of a China plate and as the picture draws in painted figures on the plate's surface come to life, and it tells the tale of a young fisherman falling in love with a princess after saving her from drowning after she falls in the river while trying to catch a butterfly, and he soon incurs the wrath of the enormous mandarin/emperor who is her father who strongly disapproves of the young lovers being together. It picks up the pace a lot when he goes on the attack, and engages the young man in a sword fight, loses, and eventually runs into a giant cave which turns out to be the giant mouth of a giant dragon which swallows him whole! The ferocious firebreathing drake then gives chase after the young couple until they stop stop its menace by slugging a boulder down its throat! The China plate is very enjoyable for what it is but still pretty average in my opinion, not bad, but definitely not an among the best that this great series of vintage animations has to offer. X 🐉 🦋