A night in a small library. The characters of famous books come to life, referring to movie versions of these books.

Mel Blanc
as Town Crier / Praying Baby / Rip Van Winkle / Emily Host / Aladdin (voice) (uncredited)

Billy Bletcher
as Basso Man (voice) (uncredited)

Tedd Pierce
as W. C. Fields (voice) (uncredited)

Harry Stanton
as Old King Cole (voice) (uncredited)

Georgia Stark
as Whistler's Mother / Heidi (voice) (uncredited)

Scott Whitaker
as Cab Calloway (archive voice) (uncredited)

The Basin Street Boys
as Vocalists (archive voice) (uncredited)
CinemaSerf
A rather annoying cuckoo clock summons us all to the town crier who rather monotonically introduces us to figures from fictional history. Amongst them are "Fu Manchu", "Frankenstein" and "Dr. Jekyll" - but they are not so menacing after all as they indulge in something akin to the dance of the "Suga...