The Lumber Champ
The Lumber Champ | |
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![]() Pooch sees the girl coonhound for the 6th time. | |
Directed by | Walter Lantz |
Story by | Walter Lantz |
Produced by | Walter Lantz |
Starring | Tex Avery[1] |
Music by | James Dietrich |
Animation by | Manuel Moreno Lester Kline Fred Kopietz Charles Hastings |
Color process | Black and white |
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Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 8:02 |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
The Lumber Champ is an animated short film distributed by Universal Pictures. It is the eighth of the thirteen Pooch the Pup cartoons.
Plot
[edit]Pooch (now having black ears) is a wood cutter who chops trees for the logging business. His boss is a tall husky cracks a whip at slow-moving works. While looking for trees to cut, Pooch spots his girlfriend, a coonhound, painting some pictures of the scenery. Delighted to see her, Pooch greets his sweetheart. They then sing the song "The Cute Little Things You Do"[2] and walk around together. Looking from a distance, the husky sees them and develops an affinity for the female coonhound. The husky snatches her with his whip and shoots Pooch from a cannon in order to get away with the girl. Eventually, the husky attempts to run over the coonhound with a locomotive, but his attempt is foiled when Pooch redirects the railroad tracks. At the film's conclusion, Pooch's girlfriend kisses him.
Notes
[edit]- Pooch still looks much like his original design, although his white ears have been replaced by long black ones.
- The animated trees in the cartoon bear some resemblance to Groucho and Harpo of the Marx brothers.
References
[edit]- ^ Scott, Keith (2022). Cartoon Voices from the Golden Age, 1930-70. BearManor Media. p. 198. ISBN 979-8-88771-010-5.
- ^ "The Lumber Champ". The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 2011-05-14. Retrieved 2011-06-03.
External links
[edit]- 1933 films
- 1933 comedy films
- American black-and-white films
- Films directed by Walter Lantz
- Walter Lantz Productions shorts
- 1930s American animated films
- 1933 animated films
- American comedy films
- Animated films about dogs
- Universal Pictures animated short films
- 1930s English-language films
- Short animated film stubs