January 16, 1930 – The Silly Symphony Summer is Released to Theaters
On January 16, 1930, the Silly Symphony Summer was released to theaters. It was the second of a part of a series of seasonal shorts. It was directed by Ub Iwerks.
The short begins with a caterpillar walking out of a corn cob and greeting other caterpillars in a nearby apple. The group of caterpillars then dance merrily through the garden before crawling into a flower. On that same flower, two butterflies emerge from their cocoons and dance as they fly through the air. They land on a stick figure, who scares them away before he, too, starts to dance. He falls off the branch and into the pond below, where several different bugs are celebrating the warm season through dance and song. Two dung beetles are then seen hard at work pushing their mound to their home, which continues to get stuck on several pebbles. The mound slips down a hill and crashes into a tree, which reveals a whole mess of tiny beetles, who being a special circle dance with each other. In the middle of the dance, a flower emerges from the ground, revealing four flies hidden within its petals. The four flies take off and find a spider in his web. They take the spider and the web, and begin to bounce the spider, who takes his revenge by eating the four flies and dancing merrily.
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