Greetings Bait

Greetings Bait
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • May 15, 1943 (1943-05-15)
Running time
7 minutes

Greetings Bait is a 1943 Oscar-nominated[1] Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon, directed by Friz Freleng.[2] The short was released on May 15, 1943.[3]

It features a split-screen view of a crab's view of the underwater world in which his independently moving eyes (on eye stalks) see the world completely differently from each other. The worm and the fisherman are caricatures of Jerry Colonna, and the title is a reference to his weekly greeting on Bob Hope's radio show, "Greetings, Gates". The same worm was also featured in the 1941 Warner's cartoon, The Wacky Worm.

Personnel

None of the filmmakers are credited on screen. The cartoon personnel are as follows:[4]

Home media

It is available on DVD on the Action In the North Atlantic disc (part of the Humphrey Bogart: The Signature Collection, Vol. 2)

References

  1. ^ "The 16th Academy Awards (1944) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved June 1, 2019.
  2. ^ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 140. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
  3. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 104–106. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  4. ^ "Greetings Bait". Big Cartoon Database. Retrieved August 22, 2021.[dead link‍]


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