Lumber Jerks

Lumber Jerks
Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	June 25, 1955
Starring	Mel Blanc Stan Freberg
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 forty-seventh 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.

The Goofy Gophers, while gathering nuts for the winter, are shocked to discover that their tree was taken away. The gophers go on a quest to get their tree back, only for it to ensue a chase directly to a lumber mill.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Mac	Mel Blanc
Tosh	Stan Freberg

Organizations

• Acme

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Forest
    • Lumber mill

Objects

• Nuts
• Acme Toothpicks

Music

The music was composed by Milt Franklyn.

It is the last Looney Tunes short to use the 1946–55 title themes of "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down". Starting with Double or Mutton, the series would start to use the title 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 on "lumberjacks." You're welcome.
• This is the third and final Goofy Gophers theatrical short to be directed by Freleng. Two more would be made by Robert McKimson: the 1958 short Gopher Broke, and the 1965 short Tease for Two.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1