The Screwy Truant
The Screwy Truant | |
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Directed by | Tex Avery |
Story by | Heck Allen |
Produced by | Fred Quimby (uncredited) |
Starring | Wally Maher (Screwy Squirrel, uncredited) Pinto Colvig (Meathead, Screwy laughing, uncredited) Patrick McGeehan (Wolf, uncredited)[1] Billy Bletcher (laughing sounds, uncredited) William Hanna (screaming sounds, uncredited) |
Music by | Scott Bradley |
Animation by | Preston Blair Ed Love Ray Abrams |
Layouts by | Claude Smith (uncredited) |
Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | MGM cartoon studio |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release date |
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Running time | 7 minutes |
Language | English |
The Screwy Truant is a 1945 Screwy Squirrel cartoon directed by Tex Avery and released by MGM.[2]
Summary[]
The cartoon centers around an adolescent version of Screwy Squirrel, who skips school to go fishing, which causes truant officer Meathead Dog (here seen with a different color palette but otherwise the same) to go around attempting to arrest Screwy, with various failures. At the end, Screwy reveals that he wasn't in school because he had measles.
Cameo[]
Red and "Wolfie" (from Swing Shift Cinderella) make a cameo appearance. In the middle of the cartoon, the two interrupt one of Screwy's antics with the wolf chasing Red across the screen, only for Screwy to interrupt by showing the title of the cartoon, saying he is in the wrong cartoon. Swing Shift Cinderella wasn't released for another seven months, so it can be inferred that the script was being written at the time, and Tex wanted to give a short teaser for it.
References[]
- ^ ""Hello All You Happy Tax Payers": Tex Avery's Voice Stock Company |". cartoonresearch.com. Retrieved 2020-02-12.
- ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 134–135. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7.
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- 1945 films
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- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animated short films
- 1940s American animated films
- 1940s animated short films
- American films
- Animated films about squirrels
- Films directed by Tex Avery
- Films scored by Scott Bradley
- Films with screenplays by Henry Wilson Allen
- Films produced by Fred Quimby
- Films about education
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- Films featuring Red (animated character)
- Films featuring Tex Avery's Big Bad Wolf
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