- Susie the Little Blue Coupe
Infobox Film
name = Susie the Little Blue Coupe
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director =Clyde Geronimi
producer =Walt Disney
writer =Bill Peet (story & adaptation)
Don DaGradi (adaptation)
starring =Sterling Holloway Stan Freberg
music =Paul J. Smith
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released =6 June ,1952
runtime = 7 min. 36 sec.
country =USA
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language = English
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preceded_by = "Lambert the Sheepish Lion "
followed_by = "The Little House "
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imdb_id = 0045209"Susie the Little Blue Coupe" is an
animated short film released theatrically by Walt Disney Studios on6 June 1952 . The eight-minute film was directed byClyde Geronimi and based on an original short-story byBill Peet , the story was adapted for the screen by Peet andDon DaGradi .The film's method of anthropomorphizing the cars, using the windshield for the eyes and eyelids, served as a stylistic inspiration for the 2006 Disney-
Pixar animated feature , "Cars". [ [http://adisney.go.com/disneypictures/cars/us/bios/CARSProdNotes.pdf "Cars" Production Information] ]The DVD release of "
The Love Bug " featured this short as a special feature. "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad " DVD also features the short as a bonus episode on the DVD's trivia section.Plot
Susie is a small blue coupe on display in a dealer showroom who is bought by a well-to-do man who is taken with her. Thrust into high-society, she finds herself surrounded by much larger, more luxurious cars but eventually makes do. She is pampered, but time takes its toll on her, mechanically and cosmetically; eventually, her owner trades her in. A second man buys her but her new life is much less pampered, being left her outside, in the cold and being poorly-maintained. One night, she is stolen, chased by the police and totaled in the resulting wreck. Rotting in a
junkyard , all looks hopeless for Susie when a young man notices her, buys her, and completely restores and revives her into a brand new hotrod.Voice cast
* Narrator:
Sterling Holloway
* Other voices:Stan Freberg External links
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* [http://www.billpeet.net/PAGES/susie.htm Bill Peet, Jr.'s page about the film]
* [http://www.hotrocket.ca/personal/kenbautista/luxo/2006/07/susie-little-blue-coupe.html Pixar's blog referencing the influence on "Cars"]References
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