>>114714934Seriously for once, this cartoon is a parody of stage melodramas from around 1900. The characters look right at the audience, they interact with the narrator, they are "playing" themselves.
Bugs Bunny of course did this all the time. He talked to people in the audience, he said he was in a "picture," sometimes we'd see silhouettes of the audience.
Younger posters here may not know that 1940s cartoons were shown in theatres before the movie, one reason why they are so good.
