Robert Allen and Hugh Harman direct this cartoon, based on a musical version of the poem about Ivan Sklavinsky Sklavar and Abdul the Bulbul Emir duking it out.
It was one of the comic songs my father sang to us when I were a lad, although he was fonder of "The Walloping Wind o' Blind". This one had a more risque version about the sultan's harem, but I didn't find out about that until I googled it in preparation for this review. Live and learn.
Harman & Ising had lost a lot of their status at MGM, which now had an active cartoon division, under the supervision of Fred Quimby; soon he would hire Tex Avery, and make it a powerhouse in the animation field. For the moment, here's a rare funny Hugh Harman cartoon, thanks, no doubt, to Mr. Allen.