At a busy urban construction site, an appreciative crowd of gawkers watches the foreman (an Anthropomorphic lion, a caricature of the conductor Leopold Stokowski) use the building plans as his score and conduct the workmen in Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, a symphony of riveting, hammering, sawing, and more. The workmen are anthropomorphic animals in human clothes. Elevators, picks, shovels, and a steam shovel are instruments in music making and construction. As the clock nears 5:00 PM, the crew works furiously, and the building rises toward the clouds. With the pennant planted at the top and the work completed, the foreman takes a bow. One of the workers (a Droopy look-alike) leaves last, closing the door behind him. Due to this, the building (labelled as the "Umpire State") come