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Pantry Panic is a 1941 animated short subject, part of the Woody Woodpecker series, produced by Walter Lantz. A very early entry in the series (and thus featuring an early garish Woody Woodpecker design), Pantry Panic (working title: What's Cookin' ) was released by Universal Pictures on November 24, 1941. Woody Woodpecker in the 1948 short Wacky-Bye Baby, directed by Dick Lundy. ...
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Melvin Jerome Blanc (May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) was a prolific American voice actor, performing on radio, in television commercials, and most famously, in hundreds of cartoon shorts for Warner Bros. ...
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For the movie, see 1941 (film). ...
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Woody Woodpecker in the 1948 short Wacky-Bye Baby, directed by Dick Lundy. ...
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For the movie, see 1941 (film). ...
Plot In the cartoon, Woody (voice of Mel Blanc) stays behind to swim while the other birds in the forest migrate south for the winter. Just after the other birds leave, the cold of winter sets in instantly, to the point that Woody's swimming hole freezes instantly solid just after he jumps in ("Must be hard water", he remarks). Woody doesn't worry, because he's stored up plenty of food. However, a snow storm enters his house and makes off with all of his food. Melvin Jerome Blanc (May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) was a prolific American voice actor, performing on radio, in television commercials, and most famously, in hundreds of cartoon shorts for Warner Bros. ...
Two weeks later, a title card informs us that "his food all gone, starvation stares Woody in the face!" Cut to a shot of Woody, seated at his dinner table, having a staring (and cackling) contest with "Starvation", personified as something vaguely resembling the Grim Reaper. A month later, a hungry cat happens upon Woody's cabin, and conspires to eat the woodpecker. The famished Woody, however, plans just as quickly to eat the cat, and the two spend much of the remainder of the short trying to decapitate, bake broil, and season each other. After four minutes of attempting to slaughter each other, a moose appears in the forest, and the starving cat and woodpecker chase after it, kill it, and eat it. Death, personified is an anthropomorphic figure or a fictional character who has existed in mythology and popular culture since the earliest days of storytelling. ...
Sitting near a pile of moose bones with full bellies, Woody and the cat appear content. However, the cat looks over at Woody and remarks, "Y'know, I'm still hungry." "Yeah," replies Woody, "so am I!" Brandishing knives, the two go right back at each other's throats as the cartoon fades to its end title credits.
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Production notes Like most of the early 1940s Lantz cartoons, Pantry Panic carried no director's credit. Lantz himself has claimed to have directed this cartoon, which features animation by Alex Lovy and LaVerne Harding, a story by Ben Hardaway and Lowell Elliott, and music by Darrell Calker. Laverne Harding (also LaVerne Harding or Verne Harding, October 10, 1905 - September 25, 1984) was an American animator. ...
Ben Bugs Hardaway (1897 - 1957) was a storyboard artist, gagman, and film director for several American animation studios during the The Golden Age of Hollywood animation. ...
Pantry Panic was the third cartoon in the Woody Woodpecker series, and the fourth short to star the character. It is the last short to feature Mel Blanc performing new dialogue for Woody, although his recording of Woody's trademark laugh (and the "guess who?!" line which often precedes it) were used in the Woody cartoons for the duration of the 1940s Storyman Ben Hardaway would perform Woody's voice for the rest of his 1940s appearances.
Today, Pantry Panic is the only Woody Woodpecker cartoon in the public domain. As such, it is freely distributed, and can be downloaded from the Internet Archive and see non YouTube. The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ...
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References - Cooke, Jon, Komorowski, Thad, Shakarian, Pietro, and Tatay, Jack. "1941". The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia. Retrieved March 4, 2007.
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