The Little Mole

A young mole goes out to play. His mother warns him that moles can't see well in the day, so he should stick close to home. A wandering skunk sells him a pair of glasses. These make the fairy palace he vaguely sees in a junk pile vanish, but reveals the beauty of the rest of the world to him, tempting him to stray in this Hugh Harman cartoon.

While the cartoons of his partner, Rudolf Ising, were demonstrating a sharp sense of humor, Harman's cartoons for MGM were still telling basic cautionary tales for small children. With their lush, Technicolor, Candybox design, Harman was still trying to compete with Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies, and falling short. Nonetheless, this is such a handsome cartoon that it remains very watchable for that alone.