Destination Meatball

Destination Meatball is the 39th animated cartoon short subject in the Woody Woodpecker series. Released theatrically on December 24, 1951, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal International.[1]

Destination Meatball
Directed byWalter Lantz
Produced byWalter Lantz
Story byWalter Lantz
Music byClarence Wheeler
Animation byRay Abrams
Don Patterson
Laverne Harding
Paul J. Smith
Backgrounds byFred Brunish
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal International
Release date
December 24, 1951 (1951-12-24)
Running time
6 minutes
LanguageEnglish

Plot

A line of people (including Woody) drool at the window of the shop of market butcher Buzz Buzzard. A short series of gags ensues about how Buzz dishonestly (and literally) "jacks" up all his prices. Since Woody is broke as usual, he sneaks in and gets thrown out by Buzz. On the way out, Woody collides with a bottle of invisible ink and turns partially invisible. Buzz can only see parts of Woody's body, and, in a somewhat gruesome scene, thinks that he's been dismembered, so he sweeps him into a trap door to get rid of him. When Woody awakes, he realizes what is happening, and he douses himself with the rest of the ink in order to pose as a ghost.

Notes

References

  1. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 157–158. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7.
  • Cooke, Jon, Komorowski, Thad, Shakarian, Pietro, and Tatay, Jack. "1951". The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia.


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