Chew Chew Baby

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

Chew Chew Baby
Directed by	Direction: Isadore Sparber Animation director: Al Eugster (uncredited)
Story by	Irving Spector
Produced by	Co-produced by: Isadore Sparber Seymour Kneitel (both uncredited)
Starring	Jack Mercer Jackson Beck (both uncredited)
Music by	Winston Sharples
Animation by	Character animation: Thomas Johnson Frank Endres George Germanetti (uncredited) Al Eugster (uncredited) Bill Hudson (uncredited) Wm. B. Pattengill (uncredited)
Backgrounds by	Scenics: Robert Owen
Production company	Paramount Cartoon Studios
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	August 15, 1958 (1958-08-15)
Running time	7 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Chew Chew Baby is an American animated short film, it was part of the Noveltoon series produced by Paramount Cartoon Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures and it was released on August 15, 1958. ^[1] 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.

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". ^[2]

References

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

External links

• Chew Chew Baby at IMDb