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Private Notes
The Captain, his wife, the Inspector and the kids spend the day at Petunia National Park.
The Captain and Hans and Fritz vie with the pirate gang for the capture of a runaway vaudeville seal and a $30,000 reward. Comedy ensues.
For Mother's Day, Hans and Fritz buy Mama a hat. They fall off the sidewalk and drop the maternal millinery into dirty water.
Count Screwloose and J.R. the Wonder Dog are promoting a $10,000 swing contest. They intend to skip town with the entry fees, but a menacing thug from the "Citizens for Fair Play" convinces them to devise alternative plans.
J.R. the Wonder Dog tricks his roguish master (Count Screwloose) into answering an ad for marriage by placing a picture of a very pretty girl over the face of an unattractive spinster.
A goldfish living in a fishbowl dreams about living life in the sea, but the little fish soon realizes that the big ocean is no place for him.
Night falls in an art gallery. A statue of Nero comes to life and tries to tempt the statuette of the Three Good Little Monkeys (See No evil, Hear No evil, Speak No evil) into helping him set fire to a picture of Rome. Ultimately, the monkeys yield to temptation with disastrous results, and the other paintings must come to life to save them.
Barney Bear tries - and keeps trying - to settle down for his winter's nap. But nothing goes well.
First appearance of Barney Bear
Yet another version of the classic fable of breaking and entering; in this bear family, Papa is a bit accident-prone and cowardly.
In a library, a raven is trying to catch a studious bookworm for dinner. To everyone's shock, including the raven, characters from various horror books come to life and chase the bookworm.
A mother hen takes her chicks for a walk in the woods. Her time is occupied trying to keep them all out of harm's way, particularly one accident-prone little rooster.
A conductor, in silhouette against sheet music, leads the title tune, which dissolves into a series of placid landscapes. We see a swan family. A duckling rescues the little swans.
On Christmas Eve, two squirrel children ask their grandfather what men are. He describes them, then narrates the story of how humanity destroyed itself by war, as chilling scenes of armed conflict play on the screen. After the last human dies, the animals take their war implements and build homes from them, to live forever in peace.
The maestro is conducting his orchestra of assorted animals. Some of them aren't very adept at following his direction.
