Feather Bluster

Feather Bluster
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Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	May 10, 1958
Starring	Mel Blanc
Producer(s)	Edward Selzer
Music composed by	Milt Franklyn Carl Stalling
Story by	Tedd Pierce
Animation	Ted Bonnicksen Tom Ray George Grandpré Warren Batchelder
Director(s)	Robert McKimson
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Feather Bluster is the four-hundred and thirty-sixth Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on May 10, 1958. It was written by Tedd Pierce, produced by Edward Selzer and directed by Robert McKimson.

Elderly barnyard animals, Foghorn Leghorn and Barnyard Dawg, reminisce about the olden days when they used to prank each other. Meanwhile, their grandsons have been listening to their stories and decide to do the same thing as their grandfathers did.

Detailed summary

Memorable quotes

Characters

Organizations

• Acme

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Farmyard
    • Foghorn's residence
    • Barnyard Dawg's residence
    • Grandson Dawg's residence

Objects

• Checkerboard
• Wooden plank
• Acme Trick Bone

Production

Development

Filming

Music

• The music provided by Milt Franklyn for the cartoon while the classic cartoon clips' music was composed by Carl Stalling.

Crew credits

• Layout: Robert Gribbroek
• Backgrounds: William Butler
• Film Editor: Treg Brown

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: May 10, 1958 in theatres

Behind the scenes

• The title is a pun of "feather duster."
• This short was made as a clip show; the majority of the footage is reused from earlier cartoons featuring Foghorn and Dawg including the following:
  • Henhouse Henery
  • All Fowled Up
  • The High and the Flighty

Legacy

• A puppy basset hound resembling Dawg's grandson would later reappear in Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas, as a caroler alongside Henery Hawk, Egghead Jr. and Priscilla Pig.

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