Log Jammed
Log Jammed is the 91st animated cartoon short subject in the Woody Woodpecker series. Released theatrically on April 20, 1959, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal International.[1]
| Log Jammed | |
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| Directed by | Paul J. Smith |
| Produced by | Walter Lantz |
| Story by | Homer Brightman |
| Starring | Grace Stafford Daws Butler |
| Music by | Clarence Wheeler |
| Animation by | Robert Bentley Don Patterson Les Kline Art Landy |
| Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Universal International |
Release date | April 20, 1959 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Plot
French-Canadian lumberjack Pierre de Woodchopper (Daws Butler) finds a suitable tree for chopping – a tree which is, of course, Woody Woodpecker's happy home. He must desert his tree-home as it falls into the river with other logs, thanks to the woodchopper's axe. But it becomes the lone log that controls the log jam. If it should fall, the jam would break and wreck Pierre's mill down the river. Woody vows vengeance. He begins to peck some alterations, and a struggle with Pierre ensues. Years later, we see Pierre, with a long, white beard, still guarding his log, and Woody, with another white beard, on the same site emitting a shaky geriatric laugh.
References
- 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. "1959". The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia. Archived January 21, 2016, at the Wayback Machine