What happened to Old Mother Hubbard and her dog after she went to the cupboard and discovered it was bare? This Terrytoon tells us all about it in swing.

Unfortunately, by the time this was made, swing wasn't hip anymore. It might have been hep, but being hep was something worthwhile twenty years earlier. Now, if you wanted to be hip, you had to rock, and this one doesn't.

Which was a problem. It's not a bad cartoon -- for 1940. But cartoons had moved on considerably in the previous fifteen years, just as popular music had. And Terrytoons hadn't moved with them.

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To the tune of rhyme and music, a puppy eats Mother Hubbard out of house and cupboard and goes off to seek his fortune and make amends. He meets many nursery-rhyme characters along the way. And his appetite grows larger.

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