Niagara Fools

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Niagara Fools
Niagara-title.jpg
Directed by Paul J. Smith
Story by Milt Schaffer
Dick Kinney
Produced by Walter Lantz
Starring Grace Stafford
Bob Johnson
Music by Clarence Wheeler
Animation by Robert Bentley
Les Kline
Raymond Jacobs
Art Landy
Color process Technicolor
Production
company
Distributed by Universal International
Release date
  • October 22, 1956 (1956-10-22)
Running time
6' 11"
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Niagara Fools is the 72nd animated cartoon short subject in the Woody Woodpecker series. Released theatrically on October 22, 1956, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal International. [1]

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Plot

The park ranger at Niagara Falls boasts about his impeccable record of enforcing the prohibition related to going over the falls in a barrel. Woody is in the crowd and instantly decides to attempt it. The ranger tries endlessly to prevent Woody from succeeding, but ends up in a barrel going over the falls himself each and every time, much to the delight of onlooking tourists, who cheer loudly. Eventually, the ranger takes his district with him. The end result has the entire crew going over the falls in barrels. The crew tries to trap Woody by mailing him to the North Pole, but they succeed in sending their superior to the North Pole. He travels 10,000 miles (all the while, Woody is humming the "Over the Wave" waltz, and the ranger alternately saying "Mush!") back to Niagara Falls. Finally, after another fight with Woody over being in a barrel, with the inevitable result, Woody joins the ranger, dressed up as a police officer, and gives him a ticket for going down the falls in a barrel.

Reception

Niagara Fools became a viral success in Brazil thirty years after its release in 1986, and is still popular today. It is pretty much Woody Woodpecker's signature film in the country, due to the scene of tourists in yellow raincoats yelling as the barrels go down the falls. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 157–158. ISBN   0-8160-3831-7.
  2. ↑ Simões Gomes, Helton (2014-01-28). "Com capas de chuva amarelas, campuseiros vibram com 'Pica Pau'" (in Portuguese). G1. Retrieved 2020-09-20.
  3. ↑ Woody Woodpecker | Fall Guy | Full Episodes , retrieved 2021-07-11


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