Into Your Dance

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Airdate:
8 June 1935

Series:

Merrie Melodies

MPAA Number:	Production Number:	Vitaphone Number:
784	MM-8-4	6806

Copyright Renewed:

1 March 1963^[1]

Crew

Film Editor:

Bernard B. Brown (uncredited)
Treg Brown (uncredited)

Musician:

Norman Spencer

Into Your Dance is a 1935 Merrie Melodies short directed by Friz Freleng.

Plot[]

A blackfaced quartet singing the titular song welcomes guests boarding Captain Benny's Showboat. When the audience is seated, peg-legged Benny introduces "the world's most popular orchestra leader" and out walks a pig conductor. He is twice pelted off the stage with tomatoes as the audience laughs riotously at him, but he comes back in disguise to lead the band. An old dog screws a light socket onto his tail, making him flail about frantically as he gets electrocuted. The musicians follow his lead and play the "William Tell Overture" at super speed.

Then comes Amateur Night. A singing lady cow shrieks and wails until Benny has had enough. He rings a bell, signalling a stage hand to drag her offstage with the hook. A tough-looking fellow recites poetry until the bell rings, and he too gets the hook. Next up is a singing dog, but before he goes onstage, he distracts Benny and swipes the bell, sticking it in the seat of his pants. He then stutters and stammers his way through the first couple lines of the title song. The audience laughs at the dog as Benny desperately looks for the bell to get him offstage. The audience has left as the dog discovers that his terrible singing has cleared out the theater. Benny gets his revenge by chasing the dog off the showboat and into the night with a wooden plank, striking at the bell hidden in the seat of the dog's pants several times.