Red-Headed Baby

Red-Headed Baby
Red-Headed Baby
	The title card of this short.
Directed by	Rudolf Ising
Produced by	Hugh Harman; Rudolf Ising; Leon Schlesinger
Music by	Frank Marsales
Animation by	Rollin Hamilton; Carman Maxwell
Color process	Black-and-white; Color Systems, Inc. (1973 Korean redrawn three-strip color edition)
Production; company	Harman-Ising Productions
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures; The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	December 26, 1931;
Running time	7 min.
Language	English

Red-Headed Baby is a 1931 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Rudolf Ising.^[1] The short was released on December 26, 1931.^[2]

The short is the first in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series to not feature a recurring character; all previous cartoons had featured Bosko, Foxy or Piggy.^[2]

Plot

Around Christmas Eve, a toymaker creates a red-haired doll, who, after he (the toymaker) departs, comes to life along with the other toys; she subsequently breaks into singing the titular song, in the process meeting a toy soldier (given the name 'Napoleon') who instantly falls for her.

However, a massive and thuggish spider also has fallen for the doll. He kidnaps her and beats the sawdust out of Napoleon. Napoleon fills his body up again and defeats the spider using a toy train. All the toys rejoice and the doll and Napoleon reunite as the titular song reprises, ending the cartoon.

References

^ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 8. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
^ ^a ^b Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 104–106. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.

External links

Red-Headed Baby at IMDb
Red-Headed Baby on YouTube

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[Beck-1] Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 8. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.

[Lenburg-2] Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 104–106. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.

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