Hey, What Does That Say?

A searchlight tracks the path of an escaped convict wolf in Tex Avery’s Dumb-Hounded.

The light realises it has zoomed past some writing on the wall, skids to a stop, and backtracks (a switch on this gag involving a painting was used in Northwest Hounded Police



The writing reveals a clue. The camera pans up to show the convict has escaped over the wall.



Johnny Johnsen is the background artist. The version of the cartoon in circulation is a re-issue and without a writer credit.