Hunky and Spunky

Infobox Hollywood cartoon
cartoon_name = Hunky and Spunky
series = Color Classics


caption =
director = Dave Fleischer
story_artist =
animator = Myron Waldman
Graham Place
voice_actor =
musician = Sammy Timberg
producer = Max Fleischer
studio = Fleischer Studios
distributor = Paramount Pictures
release_date = June 24, 1938
color_process = Technicolor
runtime = 7 mins
movie_language = English
imdb_id = 0030250

"Hunky and Spunky" is a 1938 animated short film, part of the "Color Classics" series produced by Fleischer Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Produced in Technicolor, the short revolves around a mother burro and her son.

History

Hunky is a mother burro and Spunky is her young son. This story takes place in the old west, where a prospector attempts to make Spunky into his pack animal. "Hunky and Spunky" was nominated for the 1939 Academy Award for Best Short SUbject (Cartoons). Fleischer Studios went on to produce six more "Color Classics" cartoons featuring Hunky and Spunky: "Always Kickin'" (1939), "The Barnyard Brat" (1939), "A Kick in Time" (1940), "Snubbed by a Snob" (1940), "You Can't Shoe a Horsefly" (1940), and "Vitamin Hay" (1941).

A positive contemporary review of "Hunky and Spunky" in "Film Daily" praised the short for introducing "funny new characters," and stated that the short's device of having the animals speak in "donkey talk" "will amuse the kids" [(July 1, 1938). Review of "Hunky and Spunky". "Film Daily", Vol. 74, No. 1, p. 4]

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