The Bashful Buzzard

Infobox Hollywood cartoon
cartoon_name = The Bashful Buzzard
series = Looney Tunes


caption = "Blue Ribbon" reissue title card for "The Bashful Buzzard"
director = Robert Clampett
story_artist = Michael Sasanoff
animator = Bob McKimson
Rod Scribner
Manny Gould
J.C.Melendez
voice_actor = Mel Blanc
Kent Rogers
Sara Berner
musician = Carl W. Stalling
producer = Edward Selzer
studio = Warner Bros. Cartoons
distributor = Warner Bros. Pictures
release_date = September 15, 1945
color_process = Technicolor
runtime =
movie_language = English
imdb_id = 0037528

The Bashful Buzzard is a 1945 7-minute animated cartoon directed by Robert Clampett. Beaky Buzzard is featured in this cartoon.

Plot Summary

Beaky Buzzard is sent to bring home something to eat. While his brothers fetch a milk cow (with farmer attached), a string of circus elephants (including a baby one brandishing a banner reading "I am NOT Dumbo", a reference to the Disney film of the same name) and a dog attached to a fire hydrant, Beaky manages to capture a baby bumble bee. The bee's mother then comes and stings Beaky, who falls down near a lake. There he sees the small head of what turns out to be a large dinosaur. Beaky starts running from the dinosaur, and the scene changes to the mother buzzard worrying about her son not returning home until late at night. When he comes, she is both glad that he came and angry that he brought nothing for dinner. However, when the camera moves down, it is revealed that he has eventually caught the dinosaur.

Status of original titles

The original titles to this cartoon are believed to be lost; however there are recreated titles with the original opening music cue as a bonus feature on the "". Also, someone Who? has noted that the recreated titles do not look like the originals, as the originals had the credits superimposed over the first shot of the buzzards, and after a few seconds, the camera would zoom in on the buzzards like the "Blue Ribbon" cartoon.

The Blue Ribbon reissue is one of several reissues from 1952 that feature a static "Merrie Melodies" end card with green rings and the phrase "THE END" written in the Lydian typeface.

Trivia

*The opening from Bugs Bunny Gets The Boid is reused.
*Beaky almost swears when he fights the dinosaur he says "Why you shriveled up incontestable piece of shiii..." but he catches himself and replaces the word with shoeleather.

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037528/ The Bashful Buzzard at the IMDB]