Twilight on the Trail (1937)
** (out of 4)
The Fleischer Studio produced a number of these animated short films where the "bouncing ball" would have audience members singing together. Louise Massey and The Westeners are the musical guests and the cowboy also opens up this short talking about his cowboy ways. We then see the animated version of some of his stories including his working with a lasso as well as another story dealing with him fighting a bear. From here we get to the title song and the bouncing ball. It seems 1937 brought a new format to the Screen Songs series but it's rather a miss. The idea of someone talking about their adventures as we see the animation was okay but there really wasn't much to the stories and even the animation wasn't as good as you'd come to expect from the series. The song was your typical cowboy song and it wasn't too special either.