The Coo Coo Bird

The Coo Coo Bird is the 24th animated cartoon short subject in the Woody Woodpecker series. Released theatrically on June 9, 1947, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures.[1]

This article is about the short film. For the folk song, see The Cuckoo (song).
The Coo Coo Bird
Directed byDick Lundy
Produced byWalter Lantz
Story byBen Hardaway
Milt Schaffer
StarringBen Hardaway
Music byDarrell Calker
Animation byHal Mason
Sidney Pillet
LaVerne Harding
Grim Natwick
Les Kline
Stanley C. Onaitis
Backgrounds byFred Brunish
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
June 9, 1947
Running time
6' 46"
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

Woody decides to go to bed early so he can get a head start on quail season the next morning. However, circumstances conspire to keep him awake: first a bright flashing sign on a nearby building, then a loudly ticking cuckoo clock, and finally an insubordinate folding table that he tries (and fails) to use as a bed after inadvertently destroying his own. Acting like a bucking bronco, the table eventually throws him out the window and into a bush; three quails, in turn, toss him out into the open, where he literally gets mixed up with a hunter's dogs.

References
  • Cooke, Jon, Komorowski, Thad, Shakarian, Pietro, and Tatay, Jack. "1947". The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia.
  1. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 157–158. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7.
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