Woody Woodpecker (1941 film)

Woody Woodpecker
Title card
Directed byWalter Lantz (unc.)
Story byBen Hardaway
Jack Cosgriff
Produced byWalter Lantz
StarringMel Blanc
Margaret Hill-Talbot
Danny Webb
Ben Hardaway (all unc.)[1]
Music byDarrell Calker
Animation byAlex Lovy
Ray Fahringer
Les Kline (unc.)
Laverne Harding (unc.)
Backgrounds byEd Kiechle (unc.)
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • July 7, 1941 (1941-07-07)
Running time
6:55
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Woody Woodpecker is the first animated cartoon short subject in the Woody Woodpecker series. Released theatrically on July 7, 1941,[2] the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures.[3]

This is the second appearance of Woody Woodpecker; his debut was in an Andy Panda cartoon, Knock Knock.

The working title of this cartoon is 'Cracked Nut'.

  1. ^ ""GUESS WHO??" Voice Artists in the Woody Woodpecker Cartoons |".
  2. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 157–158. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7.
  3. ^ Maltin, Leonard (1987). Of Mice and Magic (revised ed.). p. 398. ISBN 0-452-25993-2.