The Home of John Pettibone

After some night-time shots of a junkyard, there’s a fade to inside a shack that is the home of John Pettibone, the alias given to Droopy in Dixieland Droopy.



Director Tex Avery pans from right to left. You'll have to click on this to enlarge it.



The name of the artist is hidden three times in the background. This is the work of Joe Montell. The right-hand bag covering the window is for Montell Flour. And it’s tough to read but the stove is a Montell brand. The towel over the window is from the Hotel Mondello. Mondello was his family's surname.

By the time this cartoon was released in 1954, the Avery unit had been shut down at MGM and Montell was working for John Sutherland Productions.