Jack and Old Mac
Two stylized nursery rhymes are shown. First is “The House That Jack Built” as told with a variety of characters composed of letters that spell out their names (Example: the cow is made up of an intertwined C, O, and W). Next is “Old MacDonald Had a Band” (no, not farm) in which Old MacDonald and his band give way with a hot jazz number (even his animals play instruments). The piece comes to an end when Old MacDonald’s wife is tired of doing all the housework and gives him a swift whack on his head with her rolling pin.
Two nursery rhymes told in a flat, typographic, mid-century style where the animals are literally built from the letters that spell their names. It is Disney at its most UPA-influenced, and the design idea is genuinely clever — young children who are just learning to read find it fascinating for reasons the studio probably did not anticipate.