Buddy's Show Boat
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| Buddy's Show Boat | |
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| Production company | Leon Schlesinger Productions |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date | December 9, 1933 |
| Run time | 6:55 |
| Starring | Bernard B. Brown Shirley Reed Charlie Lung The Singing Guardsmen[1] |
| Producer(s) | Leon Schlesinger |
| Music composed by | Bernard Brown |
| Animation | Jack King James Pabian |
| Director(s) | Earl Duval |
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Buddy's Show Boat is the forty-first short in the Looney Tunes theatrical series. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on December 9, 1933. It was produced by Leon Schlesinger, and directed by Earl Duvall.
Detailed summary
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Characters
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Locations
Objects
- None of importance
Vehicles
- Buddy's showboat
Music
The score was composed by Bernard B. Brown. The main title theme is a rendition of "Beauty and the Beast" by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby.
The song performed in the short, "Swanee River," was sung by The Singing Guardsmen.[1]
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: December 9, 1933
Behind the scenes
- The first parts of this short, which occur before Buddy and Cookie arrive at the town, bears similarities to the Mickey Mouse short Steamboat Willie. Both shorts involve steamboats and start with the boat's captain whistling to themselves, as well as showing a character peeling potatoes.
- When this short aired on Nickelodeon, a number a scenes were cut from its broadcast:[2][3]
- Both scenes at the beginning were cut to remove all scenes featuring the Black coal workers singing "Swanee River" and stoking coal into the furnace. Although the audio was kept intact, the first shot of the coal workers was replaced with Buddy at the steering wheel, and a scene of two men holding fishing rods before it pans to a visual gag two dachshunds observing hot dogs at their rods. The second edit also cuts to scenes where Cookie peels the potatoes and the cartoon's antagonist using a knife to peel the nail off his big toe; said scene is also where the edit resumes at this point.
- The scene of Buddy introducing an African native who does an impersonation of Maurice Chevalier was completely cut, although a later scene of the native was left intact after Buddy and Cookie's stage performance.
Home availability
- Not available. 😢
