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]

Feather Bluster
Directed byRobert McKimson
Story byTedd Pierce
Additional Story:
Warren Foster
Charles McKimson
Sid Marcus
(all uncredited)
Produced byJohn W. Burton (unc.)
Archived Footage:
Edward Selzer (unc.)
StarringMel Blanc
Music byMilt Franklyn
Carl Stalling
Animation byWarren Batchelder
Ted Bonnicksen
George Grandpre
Tom Ray
Archived Animation:
Manny Gould (unc.)
Pete Burness (unc.)
Russ Dyson (unc)
Keith Darling (unc.)
Phil DeLara (unc.)
Layouts byRobert Gribbroek
Archived Layouts:
Cornett Wood
Robert Givens
(both uncredited)
Backgrounds byWilliam Butler
Archived Backgrounds:
Richard H. Thomas (uncredited)
Color processTechnicolor
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • May 10, 1958 (1958-05-10) (USA premiere)
Running time
7 min (one reel)
LanguageEnglish

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

Plot

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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

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  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. 308. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
  2. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 81–82. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
Preceded by Foghorn Leghorn cartoons
1958
Succeeded by