Art Gallery (1939)

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.

Released May 13, 1939 9 min None+

Genres: Animation, Comedy, Short

Keywords: mdblist.imdb-short, imdb.three-wise-monkeys-spoof, imdb.nero-spoof, imdb.popcorn, imdb.museum, imdb.fire, imdb.drunkenness, imdb.jekyll-and-hyde

Production Companies: MGM Cartoon Studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cartoon Studios

Country: United States
Languages: English