The Beach Nut
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The Beach Nut | |
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Directed by | James Culhane |
Story by | Ben Hardaway Milt Schaffer |
Produced by | Walter Lantz |
Starring | Jack Mather Ben Hardaway |
Music by | Darrell Calker |
Animation by | Les Kline Dick Lundy Emery Hawkins Don Williams Laverne Harding Paul Smith |
Layouts by | Art Heinemann |
Backgrounds by | Philip DeGuard |
Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 6:50 |
Language | English |
The Beach Nut is the 11th animated cartoon short subject in the Woody Woodpecker series. Released theatrically on October 16, 1944, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures.[1] The title is a play on "beech nut".
Plot[]
The film opens in medias res with vacationer Wally Walrus beating Woody Woodpecker into submission on a beachfront amusement pier. Wally explains to the gathered crowd what happened earlier to provoke his anger:
Wally decides to go to the beach to relax for his day off, but is constantly disturbed by surfer Woody. Returning to the present, Wally ties Woody to an anchor and hurls him into the ocean. The rope snags on the pier, demolishing first the pier and then the entire marina. The cartoon ends with Woody swimming away toward the horizon, pursued by Wally, and both of them pursued by the other beachgoers.
Production notes[]
The Beach Nut marked the debut of Woody Woodpecker's first steady foil, Wally Walrus. Voiced by actor Jack Mather, Wally became Woody's primary rival until 1948, before being replaced with Buzz Buzzard in Wet Blanket Policy. Wally would become the most steady foil for Woody as Woody would lose more battles to Wally than any other of Woody's opponents.[2]
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External links[]
- The Beach Nut at IMDb
- The Beach Nut at the Big Cartoon Database
- 1944 films
- English-language films
- 1944 animated films
- Walter Lantz Productions shorts
- Woody Woodpecker films
- American films
- 1940s American animated films
- Universal Pictures short films
- Universal Pictures animated short films
- Animated films about animals
- Animated films about birds
- Films set on beaches
- American animated short films