Monday 15 March 2021

A Chicken Joke

Long before introducing Woody Woodpecker on a half-hour TV cartoon show, Walter Lantz played himself in silent pictures.

Here he is in the Pete the Pup cartoon The Lunch Hound from 1927. Pete is ready to eat a roast chicken that Lantz “drew,” but Lantz puts his pen to the paper and turns the bird into a live chicken that escapes.



I believe this is supposed to be an exclamation mark.



Walter thinks it’s funny. Then again, he thought the Beary Family was funny.



Lantz made this for the J.R. Bray studio. This is from the Tommy Stathes collection. Please support his Cartoon Roots discs. Anyone interested in silent animation will enjoy them.

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