This is a Captain and the Kids short from MGM. There will be spoilers ahead:
The MGM series, The Captain and the Kids, wasn't a very good one, as the humor didn't translate well fro the comic strip to the screen. This one is a prime example of that problem.
As a Sunday strip, this would have probably worked, because it's essentially one joke-the Captain buys a dog, Mama objects and the Captain gets in trouble because of the dog. That's really all there is to the plot. It's not enough to sustain almost nine minutes of animation.
So you wind up watching the dog squirm around, or the Captain sleeping, Mama scowling and it all adds up to one rather long and static cartoon with sporadic action and the one joke effectively beaten into a coma. There are a couple of amusing bits with a hot dog and one where the dog is stalking the Captain's big toe, but there's far too little that's funny. The ending is cute, if predictable. This is worth watching once.
The MGM series, The Captain and the Kids, wasn't a very good one, as the humor didn't translate well fro the comic strip to the screen. This one is a prime example of that problem.
As a Sunday strip, this would have probably worked, because it's essentially one joke-the Captain buys a dog, Mama objects and the Captain gets in trouble because of the dog. That's really all there is to the plot. It's not enough to sustain almost nine minutes of animation.
So you wind up watching the dog squirm around, or the Captain sleeping, Mama scowling and it all adds up to one rather long and static cartoon with sporadic action and the one joke effectively beaten into a coma. There are a couple of amusing bits with a hot dog and one where the dog is stalking the Captain's big toe, but there's far too little that's funny. The ending is cute, if predictable. This is worth watching once.