| Chew Chew Baby | |
| Director: | Direction: Isadore Sparber Animation director: Al Eugster (uncredited) |
| Producer: | Co-produced by: Isadore Sparber Seymour Kneitel (both uncredited) |
| Story: | Irving Spector |
| Animator: | Character animation: Thomas Johnson Frank Endres George Germanetti (uncredited) Al Eugster (uncredited) Bill Hudson (uncredited) Wm. B. Pattengill (uncredited) |
| Background Artist: | Scenics: Robert Owen |
| Starring: | Jack Mercer Jackson Beck (both uncredited) |
| Music: | Winston Sharples |
| Studio: | Paramount Cartoon Studios |
| Distributor: | Paramount Pictures |
| Country: | United States |
| Runtime: | 7 minutes |
| Language: | English |
Chew Chew Baby is a Paramount/Harveytoon animated short in the Noveltoon series made by Paramount Cartoon Studios for release on August 15, 1958.[1] It was directed by Isadore Sparber from a story by Irving Spector. Jackson Beck and Jack Mercer provide uncredited voices.
Cannibalism is the theme of this film, in which seven characters are attacked (six get swallowed) by a pygmy after he tracks a tourist to Cincinnati.
This film shows a strong Tex Avery influence, and copies Avery's blood transfusion gag from Crazy Mixed-Up Pup.
Motion Picture Exhibitor (October 1, 1958): "Featuring modernistic drawings, this concerns an American hunter in Africa who tangles with a small native who comes to America and turns out to be a purple people eater. The cannibal finds the loud-mouthed hunter. There is an accident. The hunter is given a blood transfusion from the cannibal, and this makes him a people eater, too. Fair".[2]