Fowl Weather
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Fowl Weather | |
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Production company | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
Release date | April 4, 1953 |
Starring | Mel Blanc Bea Benaderet |
Producer(s) | Edward Selzer |
Music composed by | Carl Stalling |
Story by | Warren Foster |
Animation | Ken Champin Virgil Ross Arthur Davis Manuel Perez |
Director(s) | I. Freleng |
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Fowl Weather is the three hundred and sixty-third Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on April 4, 1953. It was produced by Edward Selzer, written by Warren Foster, and directed by Friz Freleng.
While Granny is away, Sylvester attempts to grab Tweety, only to be chased away by Hector, who had been ordered by Granny to ensure that nothing happens to Tweety, otherwise he'd surely get it. Nonetheless, Tweety ends up in a chickencoop where he is mistakened for one of the hen's baby chicks.
Detailed summary
Memorable quotes
Hector: SING, YA BUZZARD!
Tweety: Ho ho! If he's a birdie, den dat makes me a putty tat!
Characters
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Locations
- Earth
- United States
- Granny's Farm
- United States
Objects
- Grenade (painted like an egg)
- Shotgun (in Hector's imagination)
Vehicles
- Stage Coach
Production
Development
Filming
Music
The music was composed by Carl W. Stalling.
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: April 4, 1953 in theatres
Behind the scenes
- The title is a pun of the phrase, 'foul weather'. The word, fowl, means birds that are chickens, roosters or ducks.
Legacy
- This cartoon officially gives the bulldog the name of Hector. Even though his name would rarely be used until the TV show, The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries.
Home availibility
- In Japan:
- April 6, 2001: Warner Home Video releases I Love Tweety: Volume 2 on DVD.
References
Categories:
- Films
- 1953
- Granny theatrical shorts
- Sylvester theatrical shorts
- Sylvester series
- Tweety Bird theatrical shorts
- Tweety Bird series
- Hector the Bulldog theatrical shorts
- Hector the Bulldog series
- Sylvester and Hector series
- Sylvester and Tweety series
- Directed by Friz Freleng
- Merrie Melodies (theatrical shorts)
- Warner Bros. Cartoons
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Written by Warren Foster