Here the mechanized horse is drawn with a wilder, more alarmed expression, as if the merry-go-round has lost control of its elements. Robert draws a creature that is coming to life, rebelling and pressing forward excitedly. The image abounds with a number of concave and circular shapes: the flaring nostril, the gaping mouth, the startled eye, the pin of the harness, the wave-like forms in the flowing hair. Robert was particularly enthusiastic about Hitchcock films at this time, and the climatic fairground scene in Strangers on a Train with its malfunctioning and fatal merry-go-round is referenced here.