Lumber Jerks

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Lumber Jerks
Production company Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor Warner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date June 25, 1955
Starring Mel Blanc
Stan Freberg (uncredited)
Producer(s) Edward Selzer
Music composed by Milt Franklyn
Story by Warren Foster
Animation Arthur Davis
Virgil Ross
Manuel Perez
Director(s) I. Freleng
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Lumber Jerks is a three hundred and fiftieth Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on June 25, 1955. It was written by Warren Foster, produced by Edward Selzer, and directed by Friz Freleng.

When the Goofy Gophers move into a new tree in the forest, and while they were gathering nuts for the winter, they are shocked to discover that it had been cut down and taken away! So the gophers go to get their tree back, only for the chase to take them directly to a lumber mill.

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Character debut Speaking debut Ep. debut No lines Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character Actor
Mac Mel Blanc
Tosh Stan Freberg


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Music

The music was composed by Milt Franklyn.

This was the last Looney Tunes cartoon to use the 1946–55 intro and outro themes of The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down. Starting with Double or Mutton, the series would start using the 1955–64 intro and outro themes composed by Milt Franklyn that were first used in Sahara Hare, a cartoon produced earlier that year.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

  • United States: June 25, 1955 in theatres

Behind the scenes

  • The title is a pun of 'lumberjacks'.
  • This is Friz Freleng's third and final Goofy Gophers short that he made. 2 more Goofy Gophers would be made by Robert McKimson: The 1958 short, Gopher Broke, and the 1965 short, Tease for Two.

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