Hockey Homicide
Hockey Homicide is a cartoon made by Walt Disney Productions in 1945, featuring Goofy.[2]
Hockey Homicide | |
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Directed by | Jack Kinney |
Produced by | Walt Disney |
Story by | Bill Berg Dick Kinney |
Starring | Pinto Colvig (uncredited) Doodles Weaver (uncredited) |
Music by | Paul J. Smith |
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)[1] |
Layouts by | Don da Gradi |
Backgrounds by | Art Riley |
Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | |
Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
Release date | September 21, 1945 (USA) |
Running time | 7 min (one reel) |
Language | English |
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.
References
- "Disney's "Hockey Homicide" (1945)". Retrieved 27 May 2016.
- Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 86–87. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.