The Lumber Champ

The Lumber Champ
Pooch sees the girl coonhound for the 6th time.
Directed byWalter Lantz
Story byWalter Lantz
Produced byWalter Lantz
StarringTex Avery[1]
Music byJames Dietrich
Animation byManuel Moreno
Lester Kline
Fred Kopietz
Charles Hastings
Color processBlack and white
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • March 13, 1933 (1933-03-13)
Running time
8:02
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Lumber Champ is an animated short film distributed by Universal Pictures. It is the eighth of the thirteen Pooch the Pup cartoons.

Plot

Pooch (now having black ears) is a wood cutter who chops trees for the logging business. His boss is a tall husky cracks a whip at slow-moving works. While looking for trees to cut, Pooch spots his girlfriend, a coonhound, painting some pictures of the scenery. Delighted to see her, Pooch greets his sweetheart. They then sing the song "The Cute Little Things You Do"[2] and walk around together. Looking from a distance, the husky sees them and develops an affinity for the female coonhound. The husky snatches her with his whip and shoots Pooch from a cannon in order to get away with the girl. Eventually, the husky attempts to run over the coonhound with a locomotive, but his attempt is foiled when Pooch redirects the railroad tracks. At the film's conclusion, Pooch's girlfriend kisses him.

Notes

  • Pooch still looks much like his original design, although his white ears have been replaced by long black ones.
  • The animated trees in the cartoon bear some resemblance to Groucho and Harpo of the Marx brothers.

References

  1. ^ Scott, Keith (2022). Cartoon Voices from the Golden Age, 1930-70. BearManor Media. p. 198. ISBN 979-8-88771-010-5.
  2. ^ "The Lumber Champ". The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 2011-05-14. Retrieved 2011-06-03.


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