Pantry Panic
Pantry Panic | |
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Directed by | Walter Lantz |
Story by | Ben Hardaway L.E. Elliott |
Produced by | Walter Lantz |
Starring | Danny Webb Mel Blanc Marge Tarlton Margaret McKay Kent Rogers |
Music by | Darrell Calker |
Animation by | Alex Lovy Lester Kline Laverne Harding Frank Tipper Hal Mason[1] |
Backgrounds by | Ed Kiechle[1] |
Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 7:03 |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Pantry Panic is the third
Plot
Woody stays behind to swim while the other birds in the forest migrate south for the winter. Just after the other birds leave, the cold of winter sets in instantly, to the point that Woody's swimming hole freezes solid after he jumps in. Despite this, Woody does not worry because he has stored up plenty of food. However, a snow storm enters his house and makes off with all of his possessions, including his food.
Two weeks later, Woody becomes delusional and is literally staring starvation, personified as something vaguely resembling the
Voice cast
- Danny Webb as Woody Woodpecker, Korny Kat, and Moose
- Margaret McKay as Birds
- Marjorie Tarlton as Birds[4]
- Kent Rogers as Woody Woodpecker (one line), Birds[5]
Production notes
Like most of early 1940s Lantz cartoons, Pantry Panic carried no director's credit. Lantz himself has claimed to have directed this cartoon.[6]
Pantry Panic was the third cartoon in the Woody Woodpecker series, featuring an early, garish Woody Woodpecker design. It was the only short with
Pantry Panic was reworked in 1946 as
References
- ^ a b "Tralfaz: Pantry Panic Backgrounds". Tralfaz. January 8, 2018. Retrieved November 5, 2020.
- ISBN 0-8160-3831-7.
- ^ Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, 1930-70 Vol.1 - Google Books (ch.5 "Walter Lantz-Universal Cartoon Voices, 1930-72")
- ^ ""GUESS WHO??" Voice Artists in the Woody Woodpecker Cartoons |". Cartoon Research. Retrieved September 20, 2021.
- ^ Scott, Keith (October 3, 2022). Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2. BearManor Media.
- ^ a b c Gardner, Charles GardnerDevon (May 8, 2019). "Animation Trails: Unhealthy Appetites". Cartoon Research. Retrieved November 26, 2021.
- ^ Cooke, Jon, Komorowski, Thad, Shakarian, Pietro, and Tatay, Jack. "1941 Archived 2012-05-23 at the Wayback Machine". The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia