Art Gallery

Art Gallery

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 13, 1939

Runtime

0h 9m

Genres

Animation

Original Title

Art Gallery

Production Companies

MGM Cartoon Studio

Director

Hugh Harman

Description

An art museum, on a dark and stormy night. The statue of Nero comes to life and tries to burn the nearby painting of Rome but his matches go out. He tries to get a set of "hear no evil" monkeys to take the matches from a still life, but they refuse and he teases them. The other artworks come to their defense. Nero plays hurt, and gets the monkeys to help; after they stumble around in the still life for a while, they get drunk on lighter fluid and start breathing flames, which they combine with the fluid to act as a flamethrower. Soon, the museum is ablaze and all the paintings are either sounding the alarm or coming to fight the fire.