Feather Bluster Explained

Feather Bluster
Director:	Robert McKimson
Producer:	John W. Burton (unc.) Archived Footage: Edward Selzer (unc.)
Story:	Tedd Pierce Additional Story: Warren Foster Charles McKimson Sid Marcus (all uncredited)
Animator:	Warren Batchelder Ted Bonnicksen George Grandpre Tom Ray Archived Animation: Manny Gould (unc.) Pete Burness (unc.) Russ Dyson (unc) Keith Darling (unc.) Phil DeLara (unc.)
Background Artist:	William Butler Archived Backgrounds: Richard H. Thomas (uncredited)
Layout Artist:	Robert Gribbroek Archived Layouts: Cornett Wood Robert Givens (both uncredited)
Starring:	Mel Blanc
Music:	Milt Franklyn Carl Stalling
Distributor:	Warner Bros. Pictures
Color Process:	Technicolor
Runtime:	7 min (one reel)
Language:	English

Feather Bluster is a 1958 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies animated short directed by Robert McKimson.^[1] The cartoon was released on May 10, 1958, and features Foghorn Leghorn and the Barnyard Dawg.^[2]

The short is essentially a clip show, in that the majority of the footage is reused from earlier cartoons.

Plot

The plot features an elderly Foghorn Leghorn and Barnyard Dawg sitting peacefully and exchanging old stories during a game of checkers. Their grandsons outside overhear their talk and imitate their old actions. The flashbacks between Foghorn and Dawg use footage from the following cartoons: (in order of appearance)

• Henhouse Henery (1949): The scene where Dawg runs into the fence that Foghorn painted to make look like an open gate, and when Foghorn runs into a mill to create a baseball bat to use against Dawg who steals it; except it has some newly-made animation the appears just after the Dawg steals the bat, showing Foghorn coming out of the workshop apparently unscathed telling the audience "That, I say, that dawg keeps a-pitchin' 'em and I keep a-duckin' 'em!", only to prove himself wrong when after briefly going back in, he falls over in a daze after coming back out. It also makes up the final clip in the cartoon, where Foghorn scares Dawg out of his dog house and proceeds to paint his tongue green.
• The High and the Flighty (1956): The scene where Foghorn gives Dawg a rigged spring bone, only in this case, not sold to Foghorn by Daffy but rather, through new animation, received by Foghorn in the mail.
• All Fowled Up (1955): The scene where Foghorn tries to blow a stick of dynamite through a tube at Dawg, but it backfires.

References

1. Book: Beck . Jerry . Friedwald . Will . Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons . 1989 . Henry Holt and Co . 0-8050-0894-2 . 308.
2. Book: Lenburg . Jeff . The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons . 1999 . Checkmark Books . 0-8160-3831-7 . 6 June 2020 . 81–82.