The Farm of Tomorrow

The Farm of Tomorrow is a one-reel animated short subject directed by Tex Avery and produced by Fred Quimby.[2] It was released theatrically with the feature filmmovie Rogue Cop on 18 September 1954 and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The cartoon is one of Avery's future technology cartoons including The House of Tomorrow, The Car of Tomorrow and The TV of Tomorrow.

The Farm of Tomorrow
Directed byTex Avery
Produced byFred Quimby
Story byHeck Allen
StarringJune Foray
Colleen Collins
Tex Avery
Billy Bletcher[1]
Narrated byPaul Frees
Music byScott Bradley
Animation byRobert Bentley
Walter Clinton
Michael Lah
Grant Simmons
Layouts byGene Hazelton
Backgrounds byJoe Montell
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • September 18, 1954 (1954-09-18)
Running time
6 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Summary

A series of gags showing how much more productive farms would be if farmers started crossbreeding their animals to create weird (but very useful) hybrids. A number of items include,

  • A toaster-like incubator
  • A pinball machine-like egg grader
  • corn jumping like Mexican jumping beans
  • a chicken with a talking parrot’s voice
  • Chicken with an ostrich for bigger eggs
  • Chicken with a centipede for extra drumsticks
  • chicken with a slot machine
  • A smellometer to analyze the freshness of every egg
  • cow with a beaver tail
  • A cow with a kangaroo’s pouch
  • a silkworm with a garter snake resulting a beautiful calve
  • a hampsire hog with a kitchen sink to create a garbage disposal unit
  • a shaded buttercup with a milkweed for a pink cow dress
  • a duck with a banana
  • an orange with a fir tree
  • a tomato with a grapefruit
  • an umbrella with a Christmas tree
  • a potluck multiplant
  • a lamb with a dachshund
  • sheep with long underwear-like wool
  • a racehorse with a giraffe
  • a stork with a horned elk

Before ending the cartoon, the narrator talks to the viewers about the animals in the reject barn, composed of a stool pigeon made from a dove and a high chair, a 10 ft (3.0 m) polecat made from a ten foot pole and a cat, and a hootenanny made from an owl crossed with a billy goat.

References
  1. "AVERY…. Vol. 2??? WELL, IMAGINE THAT! -". cartoonresearch.com. December 7, 2020. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
  2. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 146–147. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7.
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