After the Ball (1956 film)
After the Ball | |
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Directed by | Paul J. Smith |
Produced by | Walter Lantz |
Animation by | Robert Bentley Herman R. Cohen Gil Turner |
Backgrounds by | Art Landy |
Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Universal International |
Running time | 6' 11" |
Country | United States |
After the Ball is the 66th animated cartoon short subject in the Woody Woodpecker series. Released theatrically on February 13, 1956, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal International.
Plot
Pierre Bear runs a bowling ball factory in the great North. Pierre mistakenly chops down Woody's treehouse and converts it into a bowling ball. Despite this, Woody decides to still reside in it, and goes about trying to outwit the bear. Pierre uses a water hose, air pump, deep freeze and even hocus-pocus to evict the tree's tenant, but all he gets are knotted bowler's fingers.[1]
Notes
According to the original order, After the Ball may have been the first Woody Woodpecker film that featured a shorter Woody with black dots for eyes. The original production number for After the Ball is U-52, while the previous film, The Tree Medic is U-53.[2]
References
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "After The Ball (Walter Lantz Productions)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved 2016-07-13.
- ^ Cooke, Jon, Komorowski, Thad, Shakarian, Pietro, and Tatay, Jack. "1956 Archived 2008-07-23 at the Wayback Machine". The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia.
- 1956 animated films
- Walter Lantz Productions shorts
- Woody Woodpecker films
- American short films
- 1950s short films
- 1950s American animated films
- American films
- 1956 films
- Universal Pictures short films
- Universal Pictures animated short films
- Films about animals
- Animated films about animals
- Films about birds
- Animated films about birds
- Ten-pin bowling films
- American animated short films
- Woody Woodpecker film stubs