''Sally Swing'' is a 1938

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film in Max Fleischer's

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series. The short features the voice talents of

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as Sally Swing and

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Synopsis

At the examination board, Betty asks the men if they do

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. Unfortunately, after they ended up trying a song ''(

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)'', Betty then auditions people to become bandleaders for tonight's college dance. She finally discovers a cleaning woman as the leader of the band by conducting and singing her song. Betty asks Sally to play the rest of the song continuously by annoying badly the principal of the college (Sally calls him "professor" at the end of the film).

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