Romp in a Swamp

1959
7m

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Woody and an alligator try to catch each other.Woody and an alligator try to catch each other.Woody and an alligator try to catch each other.

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Daws Butler

Ali Gator
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Grace Stafford

Woody Woodpecker
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Director
- Paul J. Smith
Writer
- Homer Brightman
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Trivia
The space race between the US and USSR was in full swing when this short was released. Sputnik 1, the first artificial object sent into space, had been launched by the Soviets two years prior.

There are several references to intergalactic adventure here, including the name Cape Carnival, a spoof of Cape Canaveral, a tiny Sputnik 1 type design satellite passed by the gator, and a Russian sounding dog. Laika, the first dog astronaut, was a female, however, and was sent into space on Sputnik 2 in 1957.

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Featured in Toon in with Me: You, the Cartoon Curator (2024)

An often overlooked aspect of this picture . . .

. . . is the cameo appearance of Real Life Russian space dog L-a-i-k-a. A stray mongrel from a Moscow back alley, she got kidnapped, bamboozled and ultimately slain by Red Commies in 1957. She had survived by her wits for three years on the lanes near Lenin's tomb, but the nefarious KGB snatched her away from the only life she'd ever known and blasted her into orbit that November. This poor mutt was cooked to death shortly after launch, as Russians are notoriously inept at designing safe spaceships. The pernicious KGB already had rubbed out a dozen less famous dogs in sub-orbital flights. It was truly a canine Armageddon.