A Desert Dilemma (1930, 1:55), comes next, animated by Cy Young, here credited as “Sy”. Odd and fairly nonsensical – it doesn’t really get its insurance company message across – this short commercial displays many of the standardized caricatured and anthropomorphised people and vehicles of the time, and though it looks to have possibly been made with sound, this transfer comes from a silent print, with a crisp, authentic music track and spots added for effect.
