Red Hot Wolf

The curtains part and camera pulls in on the stage. It’s Red Hot Riding Hood, rolling her eyes seductively. The wolf reacts. He turns 180 degrees, then swings back around and toings into the air.



The 1943 cartoon has no credit except one for director Tex Avery, though we know the animators were Ed Love, Ray Abrams and Preston Blair.

From the Independent Film Journal of July 22, 1944 comes this indication how much the allied forces liked Red and Wolfie:

Red Hot Riding Hood” has gone to war!
At the request of Lieutenant James W. Dunlap and his crew of a B-24 bomber of the 111th Air Base Unit at Langley Field, Virginia, MGM has given permission for the title of its record-smashing cartoon to become the name of the plane. Studio has also forwarded colored likenesses of "Red” and the Wolf for mounting on the fuselage.
The Wolf is also a star in his own right, since a drawing of him now graces the sides of all the "ash cans” of T.N.T. hurled through the air by the crew of Coast Gaurd cutter #8333, who requested the Wolf as their insignia.