Endless Woody Chase

Ed Love animates a good chunk of the middle part of Walter Lantz’s Wet Blanket Policy (1948), including a scene where Buzz Buzzard chases Woody Woodpecker around an office desk.

There are 18 drawings animated on ones. The cycle lasts for a couple of circles around the desk. Here it is, slowed down in an endless loop.



Love doesn’t get screen credit but there are scenes where Buzz’s mouth has the same shape as Mr. Jinks and Huckleberry Hound cartoons Love worked on. Ken O’Brien and Les Kline are the credited animators, with Lionel Stander perfectly supplying Buzz’s voice.