Me too. I wore out my tape with this, the Old Woman that Lived in the Shoe, and the old Fleicher Bros Superman episodes.

Downward slide for the Fleischers at this point, through no fault of their own. The mediocre dreck of the Silly Symphonies was selling, largely because the Bank of America had put Disney into hock and owned 49% of Disney's studio, resulting in the opinion among investors that it was the path to take. The Fleischers didn't have the self-funding that Warner Brothers did, and thus had to tailor their product to market demands, and the investors decided THIS was what the market demanded.

/animation nerd hat off