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Studio: Columbia Release Date : July 16, 1931 Series: Scrappy
Cumulative rating:
(4 ratings submitted)

Synopsis

Scrappy thinks his dog Yippy is dying, so he sets out to get a dog tonic that will save him. He ventures into the "rough house alley" to get the tonic. On his way home, he is stopped by a vicious gang of kids, who try to steal it from him. Once he gets the bottle home, he trips and breaks it. Scrappy begins to cry, but it turns out that all was for naught--Yippy was pregnant with puppies.

Characters

Scrappy

Credits

Director

Richard Martin "Dick" Huemer

Animator

Sidney “Sid” Marcus
Arthur ("Art Davis") Davidavitch

Music

Joe de Nat

Producer

Charles Mintz

Musical Score

Joe de Nat

Music Sources

Winner, Septimus "Alice Hawthrone" and Richard Milburn : "Listen to the Mocking Bird "
Barth, John F. : "Frat "


Distributor(s)

Columbia

Bloopers

  • In the opening scene where Scrappy is slurping his meal, his glass is under his hand. Just a few frames later, the glass moves to the left and Scrappy's hat appears on his chair, with no explanation of how it got there.

Technical Specifications

Animation Type: Standard (Hand-drawn-Cel) Animation
Aspect Ratio: 1.37 : 1
Cinematographic Format: Spherical
Color Type: Black and White
Negative Type: 35mm
Original Country: United States
Original Language: English
Print Type: 35mm

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From S. C. MacPeter :

An overlooked cartoon by Huemer/Marcus/Davis, and one of the greatest cartoons ever made. A boy who loves his dog so much he is willing to go through streets where any man displaying wealth is skinned, where kiddie gangs are willing to impersonate cops to disrupt him, comedic gold. Not the first Scrappy produced (that seems to go to BATTLE OF THE BARN) but a great debut for our star of a rather inconsistent series of cartoons, albeit with many fun and great entries
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