Mother Goose Melodies (1931)
by Burt Gillett

Mother Goose Melodies

Medium: film

Publication date: 17 Apr. 1931

Publisher:
Directed by: Burt Gillett

24 characters in this story:

Character (Click links for info about character and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)	Religious Affiliation	Team(s) [Notes]	Pub.	# app.
Mother Goose (details)  Old King Cole calls on his book: Title on cover is "Mother Goose." Mother Goose (a human) and a goose companion emerge from book, dance. Rest of film depicts rhymes from book.		[imagined author of fairy tales, nursery rhymes]		49
Humpty Dumpty	sentient inanimate	[egg from nursery rhyme; sat on a wall, had a great fall...]	Macmillan	40
Jack		[w/Jill went up hill in famed nursery rhyme]	John Newbery	23
Jill		[w/Jack went up hill in famed nursery rhyme]	John Newbery	23
Little Boy Blue		[nursery rhyme: fell asleep, lost track of his sheep]	Mary Cooper	30
Little Bo Peep (Bo Peep)		[lost her sheep]		77
Little Miss Muffet (Patience Muffet)		[1st app: Songs for the Nursery (1805)]	Benjamin Tabart	41
Old King Cole (King Cole)		[king]	Bernard Lintott	30
Simple Simon (Simon)		[from nursery rhyme; met a pieman, going to fair]		20
Three Blind Mice (details)  Old King Cole's traditional "fiddlers three" turn out to be the Three Blind Mice.	anthropomorphic animals	mouse	Thomas Adams	48
The Cat and the Fiddle	N.A.	cat	John Newbery	2
The Cow	N.A.	cattle [jumped over the moon]	John Newbery	1
The Little Dog	anthropomorphic animal	dog [laughed to see such a sight]	John Newbery	1
The Dish (details)  Last nursery rhyme depicted in film is "Hey Diddle, Diddle." The Little Dog is seen playing percussion music by beating on dish with 2 spoons. These are NOT anthropomorphized and do NOT run away.	sentient inanimate	[ran away with the Spoon]	John Newbery	1
The Spoon (details)  Last nursery rhyme depicted in film is "Hey Diddle, Diddle." The Little Dog is seen playing percussion music by beating on dish with 2 spoons. These are NOT anthropomorphized and do NOT run away.	sentient inanimate	[ran away with the Dish]	John Newbery	1
The Moon	sentient inanimate	[the moon, anthropomorphized]	John Newbery	1
The Spider	N.A.	spider [frightened Miss Muffet away]	Benjamin Tabart	3
The Fiddlers Three (details)  Old King Cole's traditional "fiddlers three" turn out to be the Three Blind Mice.		[played for Old King Cole]	Bernard Lintott	2
Little Jack Horner		[ate a Christmas pie]		28
Four and Twenty Blackbirds (details)  Jack Horner's pie contains the four-and-twenty blackbirds	N.A.	blackbird [baked in a pie; sang for king when pie was opened]	unknown	3
Jack-in-the-box		[1st app: Jack-in-the-box (1500)]	N.A.	11
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep (details)  Little Boy Blue's horn brings the sheep home, one of which falls into black mud and becomes Baa Baa Black Sheep.	anthropomorphic animal	sheep	unknown	2
her sheep	N.A.	sheep [Little Bo Peep's lost sheep]	N.A.	24
Sylvester J. Goose	anthropomorphic animal	goose [Mother Goose's talking goose companion]		2

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