This must have made the boys at the studio feel particularly clever: an animated version of the Times Square moving signs.

 

 

Wikipedia informs us, with its usual breathless style, that “A shimmy is a dance move in which the body is held still, except for the shoulders, which are alternated back and forth. When the right shoulder goes back, the left one comes forward. It may help to hold the arms out slightly bent at the elbow, and when the shoulders are moved, keep the hands in the same position.”

It was a flapper fave in the 20s, perhaps to make the beads on their dresses go back and forth.

Ha ha! A gorilla is leading the band:

 

 

Zulu is quite limber, and she wears cans for a bra; Oswald is smitten.

 

 

But how to get in? He's broke - and yes, he pulls out his empty pockets. But when he sees rich men going in the stage entrance - because they are rich, and thus can provide more goods and societal standing to Mmme. Zulu in exchange for phyiscal favors - he thinks he'll just slip in with the crowd.

They took a lot of liberties with the physical form, and one could say they strained credibility. Here the stage manager attempts to keep Oswald from going backstage, and he chooses the natural method: he steps on him.

 

 

 

 

The shock of the blow contains six small Oswalds.

 

 

 

 

 

Being made of the mnemonic metal invented by the robot minds who sprang from the Cyberdine Systems corporation, the small pieces reform into the larger Oswald shape.

 

 

 

 

There's pandemonium at the end, and I think they were just tired of drawing everything at this point: not exactly a convincing cityscape, is it.