Hockey Homicide

Hockey Homicide
Directed by	Jack Kinney
Produced by	Walt Disney
Animation by	Jack Boyd John Sibley Hal King Milt Kahl Al Bertino (uncredited) Cliff Nordberg (uncredited) Les Clark (uncredited) Ward Kimball (uncredited) Andy Engman (uncredited)
Layouts by	Don da Gradi
Backgrounds by	Art Riley
Color process	Technicolor
Production company	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Running time	7 min (one reel)

Hockey Homicide is a cartoon made by Walt Disney Productions in 1945.

Synopsis

Narrator Doodles Weaver explains the rules of ice hockey in satirical format. The narration's emphasis on good sportsmanship is countered by the violence of the players (all of them "played" by Goofy). Team captains Ice Box Bertino and Fearless Ferguson are rivals who brutally fight each other and incur a penalty before the game can begin, sending both of them to the penalty box; subsequently, they are constantly released from the box only to be sent back to it as they cannot help but fight each other on the ice. Eventually, confusion over many extra hockey pucks leads the players and spectators to get into a massive brawl, during which snippets from other Disney cartoons (including Pinocchio, How to Play Football, How to Play Baseball, and Victory Through Air Power) are included to emphasize the mass confusion. Meanwhile, the Loose Leafs' and the Ant Eaters' team members excitedly and intently watch the action from high in the stands while enjoying themselves, with the closing narration implying that they irritate each other's fans into fighting so the players themselves can watch instead.

Production notes

• The names of all the players are named after various members of the Disney staff. The list below is from the scorecard early in the short.

Referee	Scorer
Clean Game Kinney	Myron Nelson
Loose Leafs Roster/Moose	Ant Eaters Roster/Pelicans
Kewpie Nichols	Zip Zinnen
Slugger Hannah	Tiger Adelquist
Swede Larson	Bullet Sebern
Catfish Nolley	Lightning Shaw
Ice Box Bertino	Fearless Ferguson
Moose Williams	Wildcat Karpe
Killer Kahl	Iron Pants Dunham
Hurricane Smith	Butch King
Terror Sibley	Bomber Nordberg
Jack Boyd	Speed Peed
Spike Riley	Dippy Dyson

External links

• Hockey Homicide at IMDb