Andy Panda attempts to find out if he can catch a woodpecker by putting salt on its tail.Andy Panda attempts to find out if he can catch a woodpecker by putting salt on its tail.Andy Panda attempts to find out if he can catch a woodpecker by putting salt on its tail.
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Mel Blanc
- Papa Panda
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- …
Sara Berner
- Andy Panda
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Bernice Hansen
- Various
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWoody Woodpecker makes his first appearance in this film. He doesn't have a name until his next film, Woody Woodpecker (1941).
- GoofsA pile of sawdust forms on Papa Panda's nose. In the next shot, the sawdust vanishes.
- Quotes
[first lines]
Andy Panda: Daddy, can you really catch a bird by putting salt on his tail?
- Crazy creditsThe opening Universal logo is in black and white.
- ConnectionsEdited into Woody Woodpecker and His Friends (1982)
- SoundtracksShave and a Haircut
(uncredited)
Performed by the woodpecker by pecking on the roof
Featured review
Woody Woodpecker's screen debut, as others have pointed out, was really an "Andy Panda" cartoon but Woody apparently made such a strong impression that he went on to be a animated movie star.
"Can you really catch a bird by putting salt on its tail? That's the question asked, and how we are introduced to WW. Little Andy had asked the question to his dad, who was busy reading the day's Racing Form (which was filled with puns. Take the time to freeze the picture and you'll get some laughs or groans.)
The rest is kind of juvenile but that had to be the intended audience, at least early on. Also, it's 1940 and humor - especially with cartoons, in my opinion - got much better - by the middle of the ''40s. Early Tom & Jerry cartoons, Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, etc., all didn't hit their prime until then.
"Can you really catch a bird by putting salt on its tail? That's the question asked, and how we are introduced to WW. Little Andy had asked the question to his dad, who was busy reading the day's Racing Form (which was filled with puns. Take the time to freeze the picture and you'll get some laughs or groans.)
The rest is kind of juvenile but that had to be the intended audience, at least early on. Also, it's 1940 and humor - especially with cartoons, in my opinion - got much better - by the middle of the ''40s. Early Tom & Jerry cartoons, Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, etc., all didn't hit their prime until then.
- ccthemovieman-1
- Sep 4, 2007
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- Runtime7 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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