Lack of good storyline.

Excellent, a Must See

brilliant actors, brilliant editing

Amateur movie with Big budget

This short is one of the Silly Symphonies series which Disney produced. There will be spoilers ahead:There's no real plot here, but one isn't really necessary. A spider is tugging on a web attached to a sphinx when a secret door in the front opens. The spider, curious, goes inside, negotiating an intricate series of halls and corridors (a magnificent section of wonderful animation) until it reaches a chamber where it eventually enters a sarcophagus and is frightened by a mummy.It runs away only to find four other sarcophagi and four other mummies. The mummies come out to do a dance as the spider hides from them. The dance sequence is also well executed.The best is yet to come, as hieroglyphics come to live and begin a conflict. The visuals here are fascinating, moving faster and faster, until the spider panics, runs back out the way it came and then runs off into the desert.This short is available on the Disney Treasures Silly Symphonies DVD set and it and the set are well worth finding. Recommended.

This early black-and-white cartoon features a little spider sneak his way into the catacombs beneath the Sphinx and wander around. The scaling effects as he does so are quite good, especially for 1931. A bunch of mummies comb out of their sarcophagi and dance around. From here on it's the usual movement timed to music animation showcase that many early Silly Symphonies were known for. The monochrome does add a nice atmosphere though, I just wish that they did more with it.Eventually the little spider freaks out at the madness on show and high-tails it out of there. That's your lot for this plot less cartoon, but it's not a complete obscurity and worth watching once.

Some of the funniest "bits" are things I missed the first viewing: As the mummy cases open ominously, the spider strikes an Al Jolson pose, and cries "Mummy!" Also note that as the mummies turn around in their dance routine, they have button flaps on their wrappings, like old-fashioned long underwear. I wonder what else I may have missed? Maybe I should go run it again...

A Walt Disney SILLY SYMPHONY Cartoon Short.A large spider enters the Sphinx at Giza and makes its way to the burial chamber. Once there, the adventurous arachnid gets the scare of its life when the mummies & wall paintings come to life to the strains of EGYPTIAN MELODIES...This is a wacky, wonderful black & white cartoon. Forget the plot - there almost isn't any. When the stylized wall paintings awake, the animators indulge themselves in a perfect riot of humorous movement which delights the eye. These few moments are one of the great unheralded gems of early Disney animation. Also noteworthy is the sinuous ease with which the `camera' flows along the corridors & down the staircases inside the Sphinx.The SILLY SYMPHONIES, which Walt Disney produced for a ten year period beginning in 1929, are among the most fascinating of all animated series. Unlike the Mickey Mouse cartoons in which action was paramount, with the Symphonies the action was made to fit the music. There was little plot in the early Symphonies, which featured lively inanimate objects and anthropomorphic plants & animals, all moving frantically to the soundtrack. Gradually, however, the Symphonies became the school where Walt's animators learned to work with color and began to experiment with plot, characterization & photographic special effects. The pages of Fable & Fairy Tale, Myth & Mother Goose were all mined to provide story lines and even Hollywood's musicals & celebrities were effectively spoofed. It was from this rich soil that Disney's feature-length animation was to spring. In 1939, with SNOW WHITE successfully behind him and PINOCCHIO & FANTASIA on the near horizon, Walt phased out the SILLY SYMPHONIES; they had run their course & served their purpose.