This is early animation before anyone figured out what the rules were supposed to be. A dog chases a monkey up a mountain for a stolen document, and the comedy lives in the space between what bodies can actually do and what this film decides they will do instead. Ninety years later the line work still moves with weight and intention, each frame drawn like it mattered. The dream ending undercuts everything, which is exactly the point, a gag told with the confidence of someone who knows you can't sue a 1934 film for narrative crimes. Watch this if you want to see what happens when animators had nothing to prove except that drawing funny was its own reason to exist.

Norakuro of the Fierce Dog Brigade has just been promoted to Corporal. When the army gets a day off, he has no home to go back to, so he stops at a yakitori shop for a drink and then heads to the park for a nap. Soldiers of the Mountain Monkey Army turn up carrying secret documents they have stolen, and Norakuro chases after them. When the monkeys look set to escape by hot air balloon, he fires himself out of a fireworks launching tube to reach them. This 1934 short film is an adventure built around that pursuit.