Multiple Woodys

The Woody Woodpecker cartoon Ace in the Hole (1942) is pretty lacklustre. One thing I like is the brushwork when Woody bounces over some bombs (twice for no particular reason). Notice how the first two drawings and the last two aren’t quite the same.



Woody’s apparently in the military but doesn’t wear a uniform. He wants to “fly like the birds,” except he is a bird. And there times Woody talks without his mouth moving and his mouth moves but no words come out.

George Dane is the only animator credited on screen. Kent Rogers is Woody.