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1958 film This article is about the 1958 Noveltoon. For other uses, see Chew Chew Baby (disambiguation).

Chew Chew Baby
Directed byDirection:
Isadore Sparber
Animation director:
Al Eugster (uncredited)
Story byIrving Spector
Produced byCo-produced by:
Isadore Sparber
Seymour Kneitel
(both uncredited)
StarringJack Mercer
Jackson Beck
(both uncredited)
Music byWinston Sharples
Animation byCharacter animation:
Thomas Johnson
Frank Endres
George Germanetti (uncredited)
Al Eugster (uncredited)
Bill Hudson (uncredited)
Wm. B. Pattengill (uncredited)
Backgrounds byScenics:
Robert Owen
Production
company		Paramount Cartoon Studios
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • August 15, 1958 (1958-08-15)
Running time7 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Chew Chew Baby is a Paramount/Harveytoon animated short in the Noveltoon series made by Paramount Cartoon Studios for release on August 15, 1958. It was directed by Isadore Sparber from a story by Irving Spector. Jackson Beck and Jack Mercer provide uncredited voices.

Cannibalism is the theme of this film, in which seven characters are attacked (six get swallowed) by a pygmy after he tracks a tourist to Cincinnati.

This film shows a strong Tex Avery influence, and copies Avery's blood transfusion gag from Crazy Mixed-Up Pup.

Reception

Motion Picture Exhibitor (October 1, 1958): "Featuring modernistic drawings, this concerns an American hunter in Africa who tangles with a small native who comes to America and turns out to be a purple people eater. The cannibal finds the loud-mouthed hunter. There is an accident. The hunter is given a blood transfusion from the cannibal, and this makes him a people eater, too. Fair".

References

  1. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 113–114. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  2. Sampson, Henry T. (1998). That's Enough, Folks: Black Images in Animated Cartoons, 1900-1960. Scarecrow Press. p. 91. ISBN 978-0810832503.

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