Name: Spring and Saganaki
Genre: Animation, Short, Music
Released: 1958-10-16
Duration: 7 min
Rating: 4.8
Cast: Harold Peary

Here's another of the UPA two-story cartoons they were releasing in this period. In the first, little girl Hattie cavorts to the rising tides of spring, while in the second, Harold Peary sings about a Japanese bowman. Together they make up a standard-length cartoon.

This time the better of the two is the Hattie one, which has some nice artwork, and a pleasant little song. The one about Saganaki hasn't aged as well, with Peary doing a bad Japanese accent.

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The first-half story of this two-story cartoon finds "Hattie" greeting the coming of "Spring" with an earful of music and an eyeful of romance between her two dolls; the second one has Hamilton Ham & His World Players presenting the tale of a Japanese woodcutter who wants to be an Imperial Soldier. The regular soldiers laugh at his banner...but it is his banner that makes the bandits laugh, and be easily captured.

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