Beauty and the Beast is a 1934 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies animated short film, directed by Friz Freleng.
As the clock strikes ten, a young girl sneaks out of her nursery for a late-night snack of fruit and chocolate—which may be the cause of the strange dream that follows.
The soldier takes her to Fairytale Land, where they open a huge book titled "Beauty and the Beast" and, reading the text, sing a song about a girl menaced by a monster.
And just as it appears that the girl is doomed, she awakes on the floor of her nursery, and then she leaps into her crib and cowers under the covers as the flap of her pajamas falls open, revealing her bare buttocks.
Beauty and the Beast (released in April 1934) was the first Merrie Melodies animated short film directed by Freleng.
[3] Animation historian Michael Barrier reports that other than the use of color, there is little to set Beauty and the Beast apart from a typical Merrie Melodies film, as directed by Rudy Ising.