This is one of the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies shorts I remember watching years ago well. When Nickelodeon, TBS, and TNT used to air these cartoons, as well as those by MGM in the 1990s. I didn't have many favorites in this series growing up, but I think this is among my favorites, both as a one-off and among those in either series in general, as well as favorite '50s cartoons and those directed by Chuck Jones.
One day, the unexplained happened. Other than arriving by ship, an abnormally small, adult, bull elephant comes seemingly out of nowhere and wanders around a large city (maybe somewhere in New York). Almost every person and animal he encounters along the way causes them to react the same way, which is freak out at the sight of a rather unusually miniature-sized elephant, faint, or flee, and finding that weird. Out of all of those moments, my most favorite part is when he's in the apartment home of Marsha, Jennene, and John.
If nobody had seen him for themselves, they would've never believed it as the saying goes, "seeing is believing". It must not be so far-fetched after all if more than one individual has come across it. Once that happens, most everybody is convinced and they haven't gone mental after all. There's no explanation how nor why this elephant is not like other, average-sized elephants, nor even where it came from exactly (other than Africa), but I guess that doesn't really matter. Most everyone's fright and puzzlement may be the point of what makes this so greatly entertaining, in addition to this mystery. One reason why I love this so much and more than Jones's more recognized shorts, such as One Froggy Evening, is because of how much it seems to poke fun at surrealism and its self-reference to that. In how in this everything seems to be normal until the elephant arrives. Recommended, I've always enjoyed it.
