Just watched this early Max Fleischer Talkartoon on YouTube as linked from Cartoon Brew by Jerry Beck. Radio Riot is basically a series of blackout gags unconnected to each other. First, we see a frog announcer talking to a moving microphone which sprays his mouth because of his bad breath. There's also a spider who loves to exercise to the radio, some flies dancing on flypaper with a female one standing in front of them singing "Oh, Where Oh Where Has My Little Fly (Not Dog) Gone", a couple of dogs playing "Funiculi, Funicula" on violin with a saw, some mice pulling a sleeping cat's whiskers, and some other child mice about to sleep listening to a haunting tale on the radio. That last scene might be a little scary for the very young! That tale by the way, called "Bedtime Story" may have been written by one E.Y. "Yip" Harburg years before he became known for the Wizard of Oz songs he wrote with Harold Arlen. So, in summary, Radio Riot is a worthy Max Fleischer cartoon for any buffs out there.
