Celery Stalks at Midnight

January. 01,1951

Rating：

5.7

Genre：

Animation Music

Keywords：

Preserved Film

Trailer Synopsis Cast

Early 'visual music' film by John Whitney. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1999.

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