The Song of The Birds (1935)

A little boy shoots a baby robin with his air rifle.
Director: Dave Fleischer
Producer: Max Fleischer
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[@sickgirl787]

OMG I've been looking for this cartoon for years!!! THANK YOU so much for uploading this! When I was 4 this cartoon made such an impact on me!

[@justanobody9111]

me too, I remember when I was five and cried watching it

[@patatakap]

The mournful wailing scene always has me blubbering like a baby....

[@DaShepherdess]

Oh, man. Brings back childhood memories!

[@Wishbone4evr]

When I was a kid watching this, I always wonder, "If this kid is sorry, THEN WHY DID HE DO THAT?!" but now I'm older, I understand why. He didn't know

[@Nick-fc4wu]

If the kid didn't feel bad after then that would've been a bad thing.

[@Wishbone4evr]

@@Nick-fc4wu exactly

[@krystlecanales4149]

They need to bring back these cartoons. I had the vhs of this cartoon and others. I cried my eyes out and am still doing it. This cartoon made me have empathy for others be they humans or animals.

[@stevepensando2593]

They kinda brought it back. Have you ever heard about Cuphead?

[@krystlecanales4149]

No I don't think so.Who or what is cuphead? I may know but don't realize.

[@stevepensando2593]

It's a game based entirely of these 1930's cartoons (especially the Fleischer Studios ones). Every frame was entirely hand drawn (like in these old cartoons. It's an amazing game... *...AUTHOUGH IS TOO HARD...*

[@bellafalin1040]

what was the tape called! i’ve been trying to find it forever. i had one with rapunzel, one about things making a tart for their king, etc

[@12StringLegado]

I was like 7 or something and my cousin left her old cartoons on for me on a vhs or something and this came on, it had such an impact on my young child heart to watch this 😪

[@abelmantor2449]

Oh my god i remember watching this as a kid. I forgot it existed, but looking back what the heck is a kid doing with a gun to begin with??

[@bookapillar]

I used to have a collection of old cartoons and just found out they are all by Max Fleischer and I am slowly but surlu finding them here on KZbin...this is so exciting, I thought nobody in my age group knew these!

[@AkatsukiReka]

I remember this from my Woody Woodpecker VHS! (still have) It was an additional cartoon. I refused to allow that VHS to be given away because of THIS cartoon...brings back so many childhood memories. ^_^ I remember being young and crying; thinking, "poor baby bird"

[@The40Glock1]

Omg me too 😂 i had a looney tunes collection

[@OleAlexanderBrunaes]

This cartoon is included in Bugs Bunny Show and Cartoon Festival cassette, anyone famliar with This?

[@The40Glock1]

@OleAlexanderBrunaes yup I had purchased the collection there was one where they had a to be or not to be do you know what im referring to?

[@OleAlexanderBrunaes]

⁠@@The40Glock1In Norway, the cassette is named Hollywood Cartoon Festival (translated from Norwegian), it contains Falling Hare, Superman, Popeye meets Ali Baba, Fifth Columb Mouse, Terror on the Midway, The Song of the Birds, The Sheepish Wolf, A Kick in Time, A Day at the Zoo, The Land of the Lost, Volcano, Jerky Turkey and Case of the Missing Hare. This cassette feels like a sequel to Ub Iwerk’s Cartoon Festival (Max Fleischer Cartoon 4 in Norway), if you ask me.

[@The40Glock1]

@OleAlexanderBrunaes is that the Popeye and vulture episodes and I found it it was hamateur night 1939

[@josesalinas961]

The Last Time I Saw This Was Back When VHS Was Still A Thing.

[@Tj-oh8qf]

the ultimate guilt trip

[@Wishbone4evr]

Hell I thought the kid was crying so hard on his bed when I was a kid but now, nope! He's actually praying for the bird to come back. And it's answered. That was quick! XD

[@nsfh1131]

This cartoon after seeing the first time when I was 4 or 5…. Every time it came on I ran away. Too painful. It formed my attitude however for particularly animals, in my life. I used this cartoon in a presentation to some colleagues a few years on “responsibility”. Mr. Flesher woukd have been pleased that his sweet dad work really did have impact….

[@Ernest0591]

This cartoon will make cry a Marine; i can't watch it complete. I love birds and if SOMEONE hurts them, i'll bring him all my hate and rage.

[@fromthesidelines]

Originally released in February 1935, and remade under the same title as a Famous Studios "Noveltoon" in November 1949 (with "Little Audrey" in the boy's role).

[@willieseals5934]

I remember that one too.

[@vickithompson7503]

I loved this cartoon as a kid, and it made me cry.Even though it is only a cartoon, makes you wonder where the boy's parents were while he was shooting birds and shooting up the house. Seems to me the birds were better parents 😂❤

[@symbiotesully]

Loved these cartoons growing up and i still do. Alot of get you right in the feels lol. I remember getting really upset and crying for a good hour when i was little and i first saw this exacted cartoon haha

[@smallfry7743]

I think the Woody Woodpecker VHS generation remembers this old cartoon better than the orgional 1930s kids that saw it orginally in theaters. Back then, in the movies only.. Then never again till TV started returning things many years later. The VHS generation could watch these things over and over again on demand. 😎🥳

[@lightninggames6080]

I remember this from when I was five :D memories

[@Dehslash9]

Let this be a lesson to all you kids with Beebee guns, this kid got lucky, but if you kill a bird in real life its all on you for the rest of your life.

[@joshuafredericksen5370]

Jayman493, I was always told if I kill it, I eat it.

[@josesalinas961]

Very True.

[@bunnehboi1985]

This message was delivered even harder on The Andy Griffith Show, and I believe the episode was called "Opie, The Bird Man". It is rumored that the episode was based on this cartoon as well.

[@sincerelyshunta]

This use to make me cry so hard when I was a kid....

[@willieseals5934]

Me too even to this day .

[@purple1985purple1985]

I remember watching this during my childhood n i got so upset it stayed with me. Recently i was reminded of it again when i saw an eerily similar scene played out in the harsh reality of what is now Gaxa n its people especially children. Human beings break your heart...

[@trevorperkins4585]

Holy shit old cartoons didn't fuck around damn

[@camilleriggan9555]

What a teary, sad , turned happy, joyful cartoon. Teaches a lot!!!!!!!!!

[@psychoshaneo]

Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird

[@niko68680]

Ommmmg, it has been 10 years that Im searching this

[@tom.is.my.favorite2526]

Little Audrey is similar to this but both are sad 😢 little birdie

[@emilianoherreraramos]

Those two cartoon characters could be the same

[@01hondascott]

my parents showed me this before i got my first bb.gun and i have never misused a firearm

[@BriGuyIL1980]

4:52 Rip my heart out, why don't you?

[@SniperSam]

i finally found the cartoon that fucked me up as a kid. And at the same time I always thought the song "Who's crying now" from Journey was part of the cartoon. Weird shit

[@OowllwoO]

All soldiers need to watch this... 😔

[@ybulbu]

Greek subtitles added!

[@TheBlackCountryRose]

Everytime I watschend this I Fried and stoppend the Video until now I watschend the Wohle Film Im happy because the cuts bird revived :)

[@davidwayne3611]

2018 is going to be a good one

[@emilianoherreraramos]

The reference of the song of The birds short film cartoon was color classic and Little Audrey that's between the comparison

[@thehyperverse]

I turn 20 next month and I remember watching this on a DVD when I was a kid by the way . Way the fuck wood that kids mum and dad get him a fliping BB gun what were thay thinking but hay it's a cartoon

[@ogminor]

cooky anicomics inc this cartoon was made in 1935, and back then times were different, it was way more okay to have kids play with guns and things like that

[@oliviaquijano9018]

Poor Little Baby Bird ☹😢😭

[@Taz981]

Is the funeral song played on theremin?

[@luizfernandosilveiradeoliveira]

não se faz mais​ desenhos como esses

[@omarmuniz1497]

The parents are gonna get him when they find out what he did to the house. speaking of which, were where they?

[@zerometox1135]

Rubycancer 10 maybe out of town traveling or just at work

[@SniperSam]

bad parenting. that's a latch key kid for ya

[@bcrunch4232]

Yeah that’s probably why he had to learn his lesson the way he did, his parents didn’t bother to teach him.

[@zackhughes7878]

Holy s#%t

[@kenethlopez8162]

:(

[@117neoshadow]

Impact on you? Like what? Not to shoot birds? O.o

[@camilleriggan9555]

To be mean, ugly, hateful!!!! That bird had not done any harm to him. He laughed as it layed there. Then his conscience started working. 😮 this is what's wrong with the world today. Think about it.

[@learnspeakthink]

It was after 1939, when the United States Supreme Court interpreted the 2º Amendment that confers an individual right to possess a firearm and also more than one ,nowadays. loc.gov/law/help/second-amendment.php .

[@TheWakerra]

I'll bet this old cartoon will be banned from any modern release on DVD because of the gun and shooting. All things considered that Willie the Sparrow had the shots edited out, and an entire episode of the original Pokemon series was banned from US release because a character was shooting a gun.

[@strange_0ne535]

Wakerra but they still show the classic Looney Tunes

[@itscrumbelivable]

Pretty sure a recent Regular Show episode had a lot of guns in play

[@60BloodyChamp60]

Reading through the replies, you can smell the PC and troublemaking on the recent ones. Saying stuff about what the parents should have done, asking why the bird woke up from the rain...wtf?

[@DaShepherdess]

6:15 Wait a minute. If the little bird's parents getting him water didn't revive him, then how come the rain does? Wouldn't that mean he could've choked earlier on (4:15 - 4:45) if he was still alive? Then again, this a cartoon.

[@catboydale]

I think it's implied God performed a miracle since the kid prayed prior. It's not gonna really make sense and its not like Birds know medical practices.

[@camilleriggan9555]

The rain was from God as the little boy prayed.

[@jdaywork2693]

"Love ye one another" - Jesus

[@jpa5456]

Shoots bird with a cork gun?? Should've been a double barreled shotgun.

[@theaddreport]

hunting should be illegal

[@lilcuz5326]

theaddreport you fucking moron

[@whiskersass6036]

Yes, specially modern days, when animals are few

[@robertlaughman8297]

The Mitochondria is the Powerhouse of the Cell this is literally how things are.

[@khorps4756]

this video had nothing to do with hunting. it was about an ignorant child who didn't understand what he was doing.

[@camilleriggan9555]

@@khorps4756 you are right. Plus, shooting something for just the fun of it is wrong. Not my idea of fun.