Baby Bottleneck
| Baby Bottleneck | |
|---|---|
 Original title card | |
| Directed by | Robert Clampett |
| Story by | Warren Foster |
| Music by | Carl W. Stalling |
| Animation by | Rod Scribner Manny Gould C. Melendez I. Ellis |
| Layouts by | Thomas McKimson |
| Backgrounds by | Dorcy Howard |
| Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
Release date |
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Running time | 7:03 |
| Language | English |
Baby Bottleneck is a 1946 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Bob Clampett and written by Warren Foster.[1] The cartoon was released on March 16, 1946, and stars Daffy Duck and Porky Pig.[2] Tweety makes a cameo appearance in the film.
Plot
[edit]As the baby boom of 1946 escalates, a disgruntled stork (patterned after its Jimmy Durante figure) laments his workload at the Stork's Club. Inexperienced animals have attempted, unsuccessfully, to mitigate the increased workload, resulting in numerous baby animals being delivered to parents of the wrong species.
Porky Pig takes charge of Storks Inc. and appoints Daffy Duck to answer the phones. An assembly line powders, diapers, feeds and burps each baby before it is sent to its parents. Trouble arises when Porky discovers an egg without an address; Porky decides that hatching it will reveal its species and assigns Daffy to the task. Daffy refuses, leading to a chase around the factory and an eventual mishap where both go through the assembly line together and are sent to Africa, where a mother gorilla awaits her child.
Daffy cries upon realizing where he is due to his own actions, and the gorilla begins nursing him until Porky emerges from the diaper. The gorilla, terrified, calls Mr. Anthony (a popular radio advice commentator of the era).
Reception
[edit]Michael Barrier writes, "Baby Bottleneck, like Book Revue (1946), reveals just how great Bob Clampett's impact was on the Warner Bros. cartoons in the early 1940s... As so often in Clampett's best cartoons, there is a prevailing air of hysteria and madness: The stork is drunk, inexperienced help is delivering babies to the wrong mothers, everything is a mess — and all is bliss."[3]
Home media
[edit]- DVD: Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2
- Blu-ray and DVD: Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 165. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
- ↑ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 70-72. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
- ↑ Beck, Jerry, ed. (2020). The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons. Insight Editions. pp. 10–11. ISBN 978-1-64722-137-9.
External links
[edit]- 1946 films
- 1940s Warner Bros. animated short films
- 1946 English-language films
- 1946 American animated short films
- Baby boomers
- Cultural depictions of Bing Crosby
- Cultural depictions of Jimmy Doolittle
- Daffy Duck films
- English-language short films
- Animated films about babies
- Films directed by Bob Clampett
- Films scored by Carl Stalling
- Films with screenplays by Warren Foster
- Looney Tunes shorts
- Porky Pig films
- Storks in popular culture
- Tweety films
- Warner Bros. Cartoons animated short films
