Hash House Blues

Hash House Blues
Directed by	Manny Gould
Produced by	Charles Mintz
Music by	Joe de Nat
Animation by	Allen Rose Preston Blair
Color process	Black and white
Production company	Screen Gems
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	November 2, 1931 (1931-11-02)
Running time	5:50
Language	English

Hash House Blues, also spelled Hash-House Blues in some reissues, is a 1931 short animated from Columbia Pictures, and one of many in the long-running series of films featuring Krazy Kat.

Plot

The film opens with Krazy who seems to be riding a luxury car, and wearing a top hat like a high-class individual. Moments later, it turns out he is walking in the sidewalk, and not really riding the vehicle which moves forward past the screen. Krazy proceeds to a fancy restaurant.

Krazy enters the restaurant not as a patron as his outfit suggests, but as a waiter. In the kitchen, the chef assigns him to fix a few things, but a pesky fly causes him to mess up a bit. Krazy is able to take down the fly by opening a wheel of limburger whose scent causes the insect to collapse.

Krazy enters the dining area to tend the customers. Some acts of assistance include giving goggles to a client eating grapefruit, and helping a piglet get some food from a platter being hogged by other swine at the table. He finds his spaniel girlfriend, who is the entertainer, playing piano. The piano is animated and is having a painful key like someone having a toothache. Krazy can extract the painful key. The spaniel resumes playing her instrument as normal despite one key missing. Krazy continues tending and even entertaining the customers with a dance. When he serves a roasted bird to a plump lady, that lady is unsatisfied for some reason and tears the bill to pieces. The lady strikes Krazy with the food, causing Krazy to roll back and bump into a small table where a fish bowl falls and covers his head.

External links

• Hash House Blues at The Big Cartoon DataBase