WOT A NIGHT (1930)

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In their first film, Tom and Jerry, in their human iteration, are taxi drivers at the train station on a stormy day, waiting for a fare. A train arrives, and stops with an engine hauling a coach to let off two identical-looking men, who come out and both hail the taxi and the boys \\try to get them in the taxi.. After the men are settled, Tom drives the men. It rains so much, a frog jumps in to the taxi and gets back again. They reach a castle, and as the men walk in, Tom and Jerry run to the men to be paid, and are locked inside. Then, a cloud turns into a human-like figure with arms. He then plays crenellations as piano keys, and while near towers act as pipes, similar to a pipe organ, two trees play their own branches like piccolos. As they walk, Tom is mortified as Jerry is interested as a giant bat-like creature appears in front of them. They come to a room where a skeleton is cleaning itself. After this point, they are sure that paranormal things are happening. Odd things that happen include: ghosts standing behind them, finding a skeleton playing the piano while another skeleton dances to the music, a glove dancing, and a blackface minstrel quartette of skeletons singing a song, which includes a few lines from versions of "Golden Slippers", such as a "long white robe" and a "starry crown", and to stop gambling. After these things have happened, the two men walk in and point at Jerry. Jerry lifts his shirt and now realizes that he is a skeleton. Tom laughs and now realizes that he is a skeleton when Jerry lifts his shirt, too. Tom is terrified, and as both men run for their lives, the cartoon ends.

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