The Ginger Bread Boy

The Ginger Bread Boy
Screenshot of Oswald, the boy beagle, and the baby dog.
Directed byWalter Lantz
Bill Nolan[1]
Story byVictor McLeod[1]
Produced byWalter Lantz
StarringFrank Elmquist
Tex Avery[2]
Music byJames Dietrich
Animation byFred Avery
Ray Abrams
Cecil Surry
Jack Carr
Merle Gilson
Victor McLeod
Color processBlack and white
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • April 16, 1934 (1934-04-16)
Running time
6 minutes
LanguageEnglish

The Ginger Bread Boy is a 1934 animated short by Walter Lantz Productions and is among the many films of the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit series.[3] The story mentioned in the cartoon is based on "The Gingerbread Man", published in St. Nicholas Magazine in 1875.

  1. ^ a b Webb, Graham (2011). The animated film encyclopedia: a complete guide to American shorts, features and sequences, 1900-1999 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Company. p. 136. ISBN 978-0-7864-4985-9.
  2. ^ Scott, Keith (2022). Cartoon Voices from the Golden Age, 1930-70. BearManor Media. p. 202. ISBN 979-8-88771-010-5.
  3. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 115–116. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7.