Niagara Fools

Niagara Fools
Woody Woodpecker series
Directed by	Paul J. Smith
Produced by	Walter Lantz
Story by	Milt Schaffer Dick Kinney
Voices by	Grace Stafford Bob Johnson
Music by	Clarence Wheeler
Animation by	Robert Bentley Les Kline Raymond Jacobs Art Landy
Studio	Walter Lantz Productions
Distributed by	Universal International
Release date(s)	October 22, 1956 (U.S.)
Color process	Technicolor
Running time	6' 09"
Language	English
Preceded by	Calling All Cuckoos
Followed by	Arts and Flowers

Niagara Fools is the 71st animated cartoon short subject in the Woody Woodpecker series. Released theatrically on October 22, 1956, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal International.

Plot

Woody violates the rules that forbids excitement seekers from going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. The locak park ranger tries endless to prevent Woody from doing it, but ends up in a barrel goingg over the falls each and every time. Eventually, the ranger takes his district with him. The end result has the entire crew going over the falls in barrels. Finally, Woody joins the ranger, dressed up as a police officer, and gives him a ticket for going down the falls in barrel.

Woody plays policeman in Niagara Fools

Reception

Niagara Fools became a massive hit in Brazil thirty years after its release, and is still popular in the country today.^{[citation needed]}

Censorship

• Originally, on the first airing on The Woody Woodpecker Show, the scene where the ranger was with the Eskimos and Chinese people were cut to him arriving in America.

References

• Cooke, Jon, Komorowski, Thad, Shakarian, Pietro, and Tatay, Jack. "1956". The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia.