Chew Chew Baby Explained

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.

Reception

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]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Lenburg . Jeff . The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons . 1999 . Checkmark Books . 0-8160-3831-7 . 6 June 2020 . 113–114.
  2. Book: Sampson . Henry T. . That's Enough, Folks: Black Images in Animated Cartoons, 1900-1960 . 1998 . Scarecrow Press . 978-0810832503 . 91.