Yankee Dood It

Yankee Dood It
Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	October 13, 1956
Run time	7:50
Starring	Arthur Q. Bryan Daws Butler Mel Blanc
Music composed by	Milt Franklyn
Story by	Warren Foster
Animation	Gerry Chiniquy Virgil Ross Art Davis
Director(s)	Friz Freleng
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Yankee Dood It is the four hundred and sixteenth Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on October 13, 1956. It was written by Warren Foster, produced by Edward Selzer, and directed by Friz Freleng.

The king of industrial elves, Elmer Fudd, visits to a failing shoemaker's shop to teach the owner on mass production capitalism. Meanwhile, the shoemaker's pet cat, Sylvester, learns of a magic word that can turn one of Elmer's workers into a mouse and decides to use it to his advantage.

Characters

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Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Elmer Fudd	Arthur Q. Bryan
Assistant elf	Mel Blanc
Shoemaker	Daws Butler
Sylvester	Mel Blanc

Locations

• Earth
  • Elf village
  • Shoemaker's workshop

Music

The music was composed by Milt Franklyn.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: October 13, 1956 in theatres

Behind the scenes

• The title is a pun on both the song "Yankee Doodle" and the 1943 musical-comedy film I Dood It.
• The short is based on the fairy tale The Elves and the Shoemaker.
• This was the last of the three cartoons to be underwritten by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, succeeding from the shorts By Word of Mouse and Heir-Conditioned.
• Although Sylvester, the shoemaker and Elmer were voiced by Mel Blanc, Daws Butler and Arthur Q. Bryan, respectively, they were uncredited in this short.

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • October 21, 2008: Warner Home Video releases Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6 on DVD.