The Lumber Champ

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The Lumber Champ
Lumber Champ Pooch.jpg
Pooch sees the girl coonhound for the 6th time.
Directed by Walter Lantz
Story byWalter Lantz
Produced byWalter Lantz
Starring Tex Avery [1]
Music byJames Dietrich
Animation byManuel Moreno
Lester Kline
Fred Kopietz
Charles Hastings
Color processBlack and white
Production
company
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date
  • March 13, 1933 (1933-03-13)
Running time
8:02
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Lumber Champ is an animated short film distributed by Universal Pictures. It is the eighth of the thirteen Pooch the Pup cartoons.

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Plot

Pooch (now having black ears) is a wood cutter who chops trees for the logging business. His boss is a tall husky cracks a whip at slow-moving works. While looking for trees to cut, Pooch spots his girlfriend, a coonhound, painting some pictures of the scenery. Delighted to see her, Pooch greets his sweetheart. They then sing the song "The Cute Little Things You Do" [2] and walk around together. Looking from a distance, the husky sees them and develops an affinity for the female coonhound. The husky snatches her with his whip and shoots Pooch from a cannon in order to get away with the girl. Eventually, the husky attempts to run over the coonhound with a locomotive, but his attempt is foiled when Pooch redirects the railroad tracks. At the film's conclusion, Pooch's girlfriend kisses him.

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References

  1. Scott, Keith (2022). Cartoon Voices from the Golden Age, 1930-70. BearManor Media. p. 198. ISBN   979-8-88771-010-5.
  2. "The Lumber Champ". The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 2011-05-14. Retrieved 2011-06-03.