The Lumber Champ
| The Lumber Champ | |
|---|---|
| Pooch the Pup series | |
 Pooch meets the girl coonhound for the 6th time. | |
| Directed by | Walter Lantz |
| Music by | James Dietrich |
| Animation by |
Manuel Moreno Lester Kline Fred Kopietz Charles Hastings |
| Studio | Walter Lantz Productions |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
| Release date(s) | March 13, 1933 |
| Color process | Black and white |
| Running time | 8:02 |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | The Terrible Troubadour |
| Followed by | Nature's Workshop |
The Lumber Champ is an animated short film distributed by Universal Pictures. It is the eighth of the thirteen Pooch the Pup cartoons.
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"[1] 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 and his girlfriend embrace.
Notes
- Pooch still looks much like his original design, although his white ears have been replaced by long black ones.
- The animated trees in the cartoon bear some resemblance to Groucho and Harpo of the Marx brothers.
References
- ↑ "The Lumber Champ". The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2011-06-03.