Buddy's Trolley Troubles
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Buddy's Trolley Troubles is an American
animated
short film. It is a Looney Tune cartoon, featuring Buddy
, the second star of the series. It was released on May 5, 1934 & is the third cartoon supervised by Friz Freleng
. Musical direction was by Norman Spencer
.
on the urban line: he leaves his home, whistling the tune of the song that he shall sing as he sets out on his run. Creatively employing a piece of his picket fence as a track, he drives his trolley car out of his shed. He stops for a large lady, whom he assists in boarding the car, & starts again before a male passenger can board: the gentleman chases the car, eventually catching up and winning a great deal of money upon dropping five cents. Once Buddy's car has emptied, he picks up Cookie, which he accomplishes by extending the height of his streetcar by an accordion apparatus underneath the vehicle; of course, the detour obstructs traffic & attracts the unwelcome attention of an unfriendly traffic officer, who does not allow Buddy to speak, & upon Cookie's defense of Buddy, punches Our Hero in the nose, commanding him to move on. Obeying, Buddy extends an arm-shaped stop signal from his car & drives, the signal knocking the officer on to his face. Buddy & Cookie continue to ride, and perilously outrun and then avoid a large locomotive. A prisoner, in a striped uniform, ball-and-chain at his ankle, stands in a ditch & hammers at his bounds with a large rock, to no effect: hearing Buddy's trolley car approaching on the track that runs over the ditch, the prisoner throws his chain over the track & latches on to a branch (failing on first attempt.) The car compromises the chain, and the felon is free; Buddy's car stops, & he steps out of the driver's seat to inspect the vehicle. The prisoner, meanwhile, seeing Cookie through the motorcar window, commandeers the driver's seat whilst Buddy is distracted; Cookie screams, Buddy expresses his indignation, but the villain knocks Our Hero backwards, leaving his sweetheart to yell for help. Buddy quickly regains sensibility, and takes to his control another vehicle, eventually grabbing on to to the wire of the trolley car, kicking the thief in the face, twice, and then taking Cookie & swinging over to his emergency vehicle. The jailbreak soon sees that he is to collide with a stalled truck full of dynamite, and though the owner of the truck attempts to start his motor, it is no use and both streetcar & transport truck explode, leaving the owner of the latter quite scarred and dazed, & the prisoner dizzily seated on the ground of a pig pen: Buddy & Cookie step over to the helpless villain, and Buddy seals him in by extending the fence of the pen, & several piglets emerge just to humorously annoy the trumped bruiser.
, in 1927, starred in a cartoon in which he runs a streetcar called Trolley Troubles
; and an earlier Warner Bros. character called Foxy ran a trolley car during a long dream sequence in the Harman-Ising
Merrie Melody
Smile, Darn Ya, Smile!
, in which he, amongst other things, rings his bell by means of a cat, operates car no. 13, picks up his sweetheart & helps a large lady passenger board.
United States
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animated
Animation
Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...
short film. It is a Looney Tune cartoon, featuring Buddy
Buddy (Looney Tunes)
Buddy is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes series of cartoons.-Looney Tunes:Buddy has his origins in the chaos that followed the severing of relations between animators Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising from producer Leon Schlesinger...
, the second star of the series. It was released on May 5, 1934 & is the third cartoon supervised by Friz Freleng
Friz Freleng
Isadore "Friz" Freleng was an animator, cartoonist, director, and producer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros....
. Musical direction was by Norman Spencer
Norman Spencer
Norman Leonard Spencer was a Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in Howard Township, Ontario and became a lawyer by career....
.
Summary
Buddy is a motormanMotorman
A motorman is the person who operates an electrified trolley car, tram, light rail, or rapid transit train.The term refers to the person who is in charge of the motor in the same sense as a railroad engineer is in charge of the engine. The term was gender-neutral...
on the urban line: he leaves his home, whistling the tune of the song that he shall sing as he sets out on his run. Creatively employing a piece of his picket fence as a track, he drives his trolley car out of his shed. He stops for a large lady, whom he assists in boarding the car, & starts again before a male passenger can board: the gentleman chases the car, eventually catching up and winning a great deal of money upon dropping five cents. Once Buddy's car has emptied, he picks up Cookie, which he accomplishes by extending the height of his streetcar by an accordion apparatus underneath the vehicle; of course, the detour obstructs traffic & attracts the unwelcome attention of an unfriendly traffic officer, who does not allow Buddy to speak, & upon Cookie's defense of Buddy, punches Our Hero in the nose, commanding him to move on. Obeying, Buddy extends an arm-shaped stop signal from his car & drives, the signal knocking the officer on to his face. Buddy & Cookie continue to ride, and perilously outrun and then avoid a large locomotive. A prisoner, in a striped uniform, ball-and-chain at his ankle, stands in a ditch & hammers at his bounds with a large rock, to no effect: hearing Buddy's trolley car approaching on the track that runs over the ditch, the prisoner throws his chain over the track & latches on to a branch (failing on first attempt.) The car compromises the chain, and the felon is free; Buddy's car stops, & he steps out of the driver's seat to inspect the vehicle. The prisoner, meanwhile, seeing Cookie through the motorcar window, commandeers the driver's seat whilst Buddy is distracted; Cookie screams, Buddy expresses his indignation, but the villain knocks Our Hero backwards, leaving his sweetheart to yell for help. Buddy quickly regains sensibility, and takes to his control another vehicle, eventually grabbing on to to the wire of the trolley car, kicking the thief in the face, twice, and then taking Cookie & swinging over to his emergency vehicle. The jailbreak soon sees that he is to collide with a stalled truck full of dynamite, and though the owner of the truck attempts to start his motor, it is no use and both streetcar & transport truck explode, leaving the owner of the latter quite scarred and dazed, & the prisoner dizzily seated on the ground of a pig pen: Buddy & Cookie step over to the helpless villain, and Buddy seals him in by extending the fence of the pen, & several piglets emerge just to humorously annoy the trumped bruiser.
Similarity to other shorts
Buddy's Trolley Troubles is similar, in some respects, to other shorts: Oswald the Lucky RabbitOswald the Lucky Rabbit
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is an anthropomorphic rabbit and animated cartoon character created by Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney for films distributed by Universal Pictures in the 1920s and 1930s...
, in 1927, starred in a cartoon in which he runs a streetcar called Trolley Troubles
Trolley Troubles
Trolley Troubles is a 1927 animated short subject film, produced and directed by Walt Disney. The cartoon is noted for being the first appearance of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a character that Disney and Ub Iwerks created for Universal Pictures and Charles B. Mintz...
; and an earlier Warner Bros. character called Foxy ran a trolley car during a long dream sequence in the Harman-Ising
Harman and Ising
Hugh Harman and Rudolf "Rudy" Ising were an American animation team best known for founding the Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animation studios...
Merrie Melody
Merrie Melodies
Merrie Melodies is the name of a series of animated cartoons distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures between 1931 and 1969.Originally produced by Harman-Ising Pictures, Merrie Melodies were produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions from 1933 to 1944. Schlesinger sold his studio to Warner Bros. in 1944,...
Smile, Darn Ya, Smile!
Smile, Darn Ya, Smile!
Smile, Darn Ya, Smile! is a Merrie Melodies cartoon short , and also the title of the song performed in the cartoon. This is one of the only three Merrie Melodies cartoons to star Foxy; the other two are Lady, Play Your Mandolin! and One More Time...
, in which he, amongst other things, rings his bell by means of a cat, operates car no. 13, picks up his sweetheart & helps a large lady passenger board.