Michael_Elliott Elmer Elephant (1936)*** (out of 4) A cute little tiger is having a birthday party and everyone is having a blast. A sweet elephant shows up and gives her flowers, which steals her heart but the rest of the kids there plan on picking on the elephant due to his large nose. This is another good Disney short that falls just short of being a classic but it's still worth watching. There are quite a few good things here with the highlight certainly being the characters who are just downright adorable. Both the tiger and elephant make for a cute couple and there's no question that the ending is extremely sweet. I thought the bullies were all done well and especially the hippo and that wonderful voice. The animation is quite good as you'd expect and overall it's a pretty good movie even if its story isn't all that great.

MartinHafer Elmer Elephant heads to Tillie Tiger's birthday party cutesy characters other animals make fun of him ostriches heads"Elmer Elephant" is an exceptionally well-animated cartoon but it suffers from a case of the ultra-cutesies. It is just too cute and tries so hard at this that it's a tad cloying. Still, compared to the output of other studios of the day, it's still a pretty decent short.The cartoon begins with adorable Elmer making his way to Tillie Tiger's birthday party. However, the other animals are jerks and make fun of Elmer's trunk. Elmer is a bit thin-skinned and is chased away. However, when fire strikes at the party, Elmer returns and saves the day.In many ways, this cartoon is like the song "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer". The animals are all jerks and the target of their nastiness eventually proves himself a hero nd all is forgotten. I say that revenge would have been a much more satisfying ending--but it doesn't fit into the whole Disney style. Overall, a mildly entertaining cartoon that isn't bad but seemed a bit too predictable and cute for my taste.

spunky-22 Both cute and clever -- a good combination in a Disney animated Silly Symphony. We see a lot of comedy bits in this cartoon that are similar to gags in later animated stories, but they're somewhat different here. Sure, we've seen the whole anthropomorphic-fire thing, but a lot of the elements are pretty unique. I personally enjoyed way Elmer has all sorts of tricks up his, well, nose when it comes to hitting his targets with good ol' H2O. For the Looney Tunes fans out there, you may the voice of Tillie Tiger as the same voice as Petunia Pig.

Ron Oliver A Walt Disney SILLY SYMPHONY Cartoon Short.Little ELMER ELEPHANT has a crush on Tillie Tiger & his affection is reciprocated (don't try to figure it out). Trouble is, the pint-sized pachyderm is beset by bullies who ridicule his trunk and make his life miserable. Then a conflagration breaks out at Tillie's tree house...A very cute little film, very nicely drawn, with a sound moral message. It could have been the start of a series of Elmer Elephant shorts, but, alas, that was not to be and Elmer & his friends went into almost immediate cartoon oblivion.The pelicans, for those too young to know, are spoofs of Jimmy Durante.The SILLY SYMPHONIES, which Walt Disney produced for a ten year period beginning in 1929, are among the most interesting of series in the field of animation. Unlike the Mickey Mouse cartoons in which action was paramount, with the Symphonies the action was made to fit the music. There was little plot in the early Symphonies, which featured lively inanimate objects and anthropomorphic plants & animals, all moving frantically to the soundtrack. Gradually, however, the Symphonies became the school where Walt's animators learned to work with color and began to experiment with plot, characterization & photographic special effects. The pages of Fable & Fairy Tale, Myth & Mother Goose were all mined to provide story lines and even Hollywood's musicals & celebrities were effectively spoofed. It was from this rich soil that Disney's feature-length animation was to spring. In 1939, with SNOW WHITE successfully behind him and PINOCCHIO & FANTASIA on the near horizon, Walt phased out the SILLY SYMPHONIES; they had run their course & served their purpose.