A Bone for a Bone

A Bone for a Bone
Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	April 7, 1951
Run time	7:04
Starring	Mel Blanc Stan Freberg
Music composed by	Carl Stalling
Story by	J.B. Hardaway
Animation	Virgil Ross Arthur Davis Manuel Perez Ken Champin
Director(s)	I. Freleng
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A Bone for a Bone is the two hundred and eighty-fourth Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on April 7, 1951. It was written by Ben Hardaway, produced by Edward Selzer, and directed by Friz Freleng.

The Goofy Gophers, Mac and Tosh, mind their business until a dog digs a bone in their burrow. Their conflict escalates when the dog refuses to bury the bone in another spot.

Detailed summary

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Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Mac	Mel Blanc
Tosh	Stan Freberg
Geo P. Dog	Mel Blanc

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Mac and Tosh's residence
    • Geo's doghouse

Objects

• Geo's bone

Vehicles

• None

Filming

The film was copyrighted in 1949 (MCMXLIX).

Music

The score was composed by Carl W. Stalling.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: April 7, 1952; January 2, 1960 (Blue Ribbon reissue)

Behind the scenes

• The MPAA certificate is 13632.
• This short marks as the first of four Goofy Gophers cartoons directed by Friz Freleng.
• This is the final work by Ben Hardaway at the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio, having returned after almost a decade of his employment at Walter Lantz Productions.
• Unlike most of the cartoons re-released under the Blue Ribbon label in the 1959-61 seasons, the reissue of this short uses the Looney Tunes title theme ("The Merry Go Round Broke Down") instead of the Merrie Melodies theme ("Merrily We Roll Along").

Errors

• None

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • November 26, 2024: Warner Archive Collection releases Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 4 on Blu-ray Disc.