Love's Labor Lost (film)
Love's Labor Lost | |
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Directed by | Vernon Stallings |
Produced by | J.R. Bray |
Color process | Black and white |
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Distributed by | Goldwyn Pictures |
Release date | January 30, 1920 |
Running time | 3:33 |
Language | English |
Love's Labor Lost is a 1920 short animated film by Bray Productions and is one of the silent Krazy Kat cartoons. The film's title references a play by William Shakespeare.
Plot
A rat is sitting on a rock at a park, wondering how he should spend his day. He then sees a charming girl hippo and develops affection for her despite the size difference. Although a boy elephant was first to come and court her, the rat finds this a minor problem and thinks of how to split them.
Just then, Krazy Kat comes to the area. Krazy begins playing a song in his banjo, hoping to win the rat's friendship. The rat, however, is uninterested, and grabs Krazy's instrument before knocking down the cat with it. The rat then approaches the girl hippo and tries to serenade her with the banjo. Because the boy elephant has a fear of rodents, the rat easily drives away the elephant, who runs away in panic.
After fleeing the park, the boy elephant finds himself outside a tavern. He notices a barrel of Bevo next to him. The elephant drinks the contents of the barrel and gets the courage to confront the rat.
The elephant returns to the park and jumps on the rat, smashing him to death and regaining the girl hippo. Before the two hefty lovers happily walk away, the boy elephant covers the rat's corpse in dirt and lays a flower pot beside.
Krazy shows up again to see what become of his would-be-friend. Saddened by this, he plays a solemn tune in his banjo, and his tears shower upon the flower pot. Seconds later, a flower grows from the pot and the rat's ghost appears on it. Annoyed by Krazy's gesture, the ghostly rat strikes the feline off his feet with a cinderblock before ascending to the great beyond.
See also
- 1920 films
- 1920 animated films
- 1920 short films
- 1920s American animated films
- 1920s animated short films
- American black-and-white films
- American silent short films
- Krazy Kat shorts
- Films based on Love's Labour's Lost
- Films directed by Vernon Stallings
- American animated short films
- Bray Productions films
- Animated films about cats
- Animated films about elephants
- Animated films about rats
- Films about even-toed ungulates
- Short animated film stubs