"The Hunting Season" is a cartoon from Van Beuren Studios--a cartoon producer for less than a decade during the late 1920s and into the 30s. While their cartoons were of decent quality compared to most companies of the time, the quality of their work never came close to rivaling Disney. Part of this was due to the deficiencies of the art and writing of the cartoons but part wasn't really Van Beuren's fault. Disney had an exclusive contract with Technicolor for full-color film stock for several years. Tinier studios like Van Beuren either had to make black & white cartoons of use the less advanced (and uglier) two- color film-- such as with the Cinecolor you see in this particular short. Because it was not true color, the film is made up mostly of oranges and blues and comes off as a bit garish.
I am not exactly sure what the message is in this Molly Moo-Cow cartoon. It's pretty weird, that's for sure. It begins with an overly long sequence of super-cutesy animals cavorting in the forest. Molly joins them and soon an insane hunter arrives. First, he sticks a loaded gun up to his face and plays it like a flute. Then, the begins shooting at EVERYTHING--including the cow! The guy is out of control and Molly and her friends do what any animals would do in this situation--steal the jerk's guns and shoot him. It's a bizarre combination of ultra-cute and ultra-violent--and not exactly good as a result. More a strange curio than a cartoon you'd ever want to show your kids!