Yes! We Have No Bananas [1930] Screen Songs Cartoon 

My 93 year old Nana has Alzheimers and not too long ago she began singing this when someone mentioned bananas. Usually I recognize what she is singing but this one really stumped me. Of course that lead me to look it up here. I am glad she chose to sing this because I really enjoyed this. Thank you for uploading it.

Imagine a whole movie audience singing along to this in 1930. You wouldn't see todays movie goers do that!

I mean for 87 years old, the animation is great!

April 26, 1930 - and the animators rarely got credit back then.

Another UM&M butchering of the original Paramount titles, after the studio had to sell off old films in the early 50's to be shown on television.

That cartoon was slightly scary... I was like, "What drug were they on?"

April 25, 1930 was 8 months before Flagg Coal Company #75 was built by Vulcan Iron Works, for the Flagg Coal Company of Avoca, PA.

Years ago, during the Brussels Animated Movie Festival (now called "Anima"), we were doing that during the screening of Fleischer's "You Try Somebody Else" and another Screen Song I can't remember. Well, "we"... most of the audience there is French speaking, so having them sing-along a not-so-recent American song is not an easy thing. But even with the couple of dozen who *did* sing, it was a great experience! All those Screen Songs should be restored, and screened like that!

i just came hebe becausa homer simpson sayd, YES WE HAVE NO BANANAS and i dicided to put taht in youtube and see wath it apeared, and then.. this :P

But i had a bannaner in there!

This is brilliant! Loved it from beginning to end. It's like one big experiment into animation and humour. You might get a few hits from Australia now as the floods have wiped out 75% of our banana supply!

Why is it that I find these and the Aesop's Fables ("Sugar Coated Pills Of Wisdom") so much more imaginative than the carteeon that Disney was doing about the same time? I am less concerned with the crudeness of the animation (which is charming actually) than I am about the moment by moment creativity in these.

Love the score. HEY WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA

My best guess is the animators were Max and Dave Fleischer the original creators of the screen songs in 1926

So primitive, yet so fun!

FUNNY WAY of putting it--"YES! WE have no bananas!" My brother and I used to think it was a stupid way of putting it(YES, there are no bananas), first time we heard this song(we had watched another cartoon, by Paramount, in affiliation with Casper and Company, which also had made a number of the old "Bouncing Ball"cartoons), BUT, again, that actually IS the way the song goes, FUNNY though it might sound, in more ways than one. Thanks for posting-very reminiscent, of the era--I can tell that was recorded on one of those old records, which could be played as fast as 78 rpm!

Looks like the first attempt at karaoke.

Great . It certainly is well detailed & drawn. BUT... Why was this song recorded at such a glacial pace? I've never heard it played this slow anywhere else... Thanks so much for allowing us RU-vidrs to share it w/ you!

I sure would like to have some bananas but I'm dying and don't have the strength to walk to the store...and I can't order anything on my phone because they won't deliver to me...and I'm so happy to be able to leave this stinking rotten earth before the shit hits the fan...I know where I'm going and know where I've been...I WILL NEVER TURN TO LOOK BACK!

According to a frame of the theatricals title I have of "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles", Fleischer didn't show the animator credits in the theatrical titles aswell. Just "A Paramount Sound Novelty" and a credit to Paramount Productions Staff.