Dancing on the Moon (1935)

Directed by: Dave Fleischer, Seymour Kneitel

Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film!

Synopsis: A group of honeymooning couples take a rocketship to the moon, but not everyone has a good time.

Cartoon Cats: As the happy animal pairs dance onto the rocket, a black cat groom and his white cat bride run to try to catch the departing ship. At one point the bride just lets her new husband pull her along.

Dancing on the Moon - cartoon groom and bride cats running

Dancing on the Moon - cartoon groom cat running and pulling bride cat behind him

The groom cat manages to get their bags and himself onto the rocket, but he cannot pull his bride up in time.

Dancing on the Moon - cartoon groom cat trying to pull bride cat into rocketship

The rocket takes off and the bride shakes her fist and yells, “You left me behind on purpose, you alley cat!”

Dancing on the Moon - bride cat shaking fist and yelling

The black cat calls down to his wife, Whitey, that he’ll be back soon.

Dancing on the Moon - cartoon groom cat waving from rocketship

The poor groom cat suffers through the journey to the moon alone.

Dancing on the Moon - cartoon groom cat sitting in rocketship leaving Earth

While other couples court and spoon, the cat plays solitaire.

Dancing on the Moon - cartoon groom cat playing solitaire

Once on the moon itself, the other animal couples continue their romancing and dancing. The groom cat sits alone, playing Cat’s Cradle.

Dancing on the Moon - cartoon groom cat sitting alone on moon

Dancing on the Moon - cartoon groom cat playing Cat's Cradle on moon

As the other couples dance happily, the groom cat solemnly spins in a dance by himself.

Dancing on the Moon - cartoon groom cat dancing along on the moon

When the rocket returns to Earth, the couple are greeted by the stork who gives them their babies. The groom cat anxiously holds out his paws but the stork obviously has nothing for him.