Buddy of the Apes
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Buddy of the Apes is an American
animated
short film, released May 26, 1934 It is a Looney Tune cartoon, featuring Buddy
, the second star of the series. It was the first cartoon supervised by Ben Hardaway
; musical direction was by Bernard Brown.
's trunk, steps behind the great beast to wring out his raiment, then, when again decent, re-emerges. Buddy steps over to a nearby pond, where he brushes his teeth with a reed thereby growing. We see animals doing similar things: a giraffe
rinses its mouth & spits, an alligator
cleans its dentures, a monkey flosses the teeth of an hippopotamus
. A mother ape rocks her baby in a cradle (balanced on a ledge), & gives him a cocoanut as a bottle; when the child looks to be safely asleep, the mother steps away. But the child is awake, and he happily rocks himself off of his precarious ledge, and falls, cradle & all, into a river below: the mother returns screaming. Buddy, meanwhile, slices open a cocoanut to drink its milk, and the mother ape hysterically enjoins his help in rescuing her baby. Buddy rushes off, and, cleverly tying the hilt of his cocoanut knife to a vine, he snags the little ape's cradle & barely saves the infant from falling down a rushing waterfall; the mother scolds her baby upon his return, and Buddy and several other creatures dance in a circle (Buddy at center). A native from a nearby village catches sight of the triumphant party by means of a spy-glass & hurries back to tell his Chief of the matter: the village gathers, the Chief speaks in a language accessible only to himself & his people, and most of the villagers arm & hurry off at this command, whilst two stay behind to take up the king's litter
. Buddy, interrupted from a game that he was apparently playing with an ape friend of his, deftly escapes two spears from the advancing local enemy (the ape on his back), and leaps to his hut, again uttering a great bellow: this is a gathering cry for the beasts of the jungle. An elephant hears Buddy, sees the enemies, & gathers, with its trunk, acorns, which then it fires, to great effect, at the natives. Buddy catches a spear in his teeth, fires it back at its thrower, & catches the native, by his nose ring, on a tree; a kangaroo
then emerges and punches the trapped enemy, while a smaller native kicks the belly of the beast, from which, naturally enough, emerges a baby kangaroo, which then takes a mighty and successful swing at the tiny belligerent. Apes load cocoanuts into an hippopotamus, & another ape swings from a tree to kick the beast, which then, by mouth, launches the palm projectiles at quickly frightened, retreating natives; dodging most, the fleeing warriors are struck from the rear by one, &, as they are running in a straight line, are bunched together at once, and thrown thus off a cliff, into the water beneath. A monkey emerges from the beak of a pelican
and fires cocoanuts at the tribal chief & his litter-bearers, knocking out the two servants & sending the chief flying; the hippopotamus continues to fire cocoanuts and hits the Chief numerous times. Another ape successfully uses a cat as a bow from which to fire long needles at the Chief's behind; Buddy, watching, swings down from his hut and catches his enemy by the neck. Wrestling the Chief into submission, Buddy again lets loose his jungle roar & is outfitted with the same crown worn, not a moment ago, by the defeated native chief.
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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, released May 26, 1934 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 the first cartoon supervised by Ben Hardaway
Ben Hardaway
Joseph Benson "Ben/Bugs" Hardaway was a storyboard artist, animator, voice actor, gagman, writer, and director for several American animation studios during the The Golden Age of Hollywood animation. He was sometimes credited as J.B. Hardaway, Ben Hardaway, Buggsy Hardaway, and B. Hardaway.While...
; musical direction was by Bernard Brown.
Summary
Buddy, dressed in a leopard pelt & wearing his ordinary shoes, steps from his house amid the jungle trees, thumps his chest, & utters a great yell before swinging from tree to tree down to the earth. Cleverly, he washes himself with the water of an elephantElephant
Elephants are large land mammals in two extant genera of the family Elephantidae: Elephas and Loxodonta, with the third genus Mammuthus extinct...
's trunk, steps behind the great beast to wring out his raiment, then, when again decent, re-emerges. Buddy steps over to a nearby pond, where he brushes his teeth with a reed thereby growing. We see animals doing similar things: a giraffe
Giraffe
The giraffe is an African even-toed ungulate mammal, the tallest of all extant land-living animal species, and the largest ruminant...
rinses its mouth & spits, an alligator
Alligator
An alligator is a crocodilian in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae. There are two extant alligator species: the American alligator and the Chinese alligator ....
cleans its dentures, a monkey flosses the teeth of an hippopotamus
Hippopotamus
The hippopotamus , or hippo, from the ancient Greek for "river horse" , is a large, mostly herbivorous mammal in sub-Saharan Africa, and one of only two extant species in the family Hippopotamidae After the elephant and rhinoceros, the hippopotamus is the third largest land mammal and the heaviest...
. A mother ape rocks her baby in a cradle (balanced on a ledge), & gives him a cocoanut as a bottle; when the child looks to be safely asleep, the mother steps away. But the child is awake, and he happily rocks himself off of his precarious ledge, and falls, cradle & all, into a river below: the mother returns screaming. Buddy, meanwhile, slices open a cocoanut to drink its milk, and the mother ape hysterically enjoins his help in rescuing her baby. Buddy rushes off, and, cleverly tying the hilt of his cocoanut knife to a vine, he snags the little ape's cradle & barely saves the infant from falling down a rushing waterfall; the mother scolds her baby upon his return, and Buddy and several other creatures dance in a circle (Buddy at center). A native from a nearby village catches sight of the triumphant party by means of a spy-glass & hurries back to tell his Chief of the matter: the village gathers, the Chief speaks in a language accessible only to himself & his people, and most of the villagers arm & hurry off at this command, whilst two stay behind to take up the king's litter
Litter (vehicle)
The litter is a class of wheelless vehicles, a type of human-powered transport, for the transport of persons. Examples of litter vehicles include lectica , jiao [较] , sedan chairs , palanquin , Woh , gama...
. Buddy, interrupted from a game that he was apparently playing with an ape friend of his, deftly escapes two spears from the advancing local enemy (the ape on his back), and leaps to his hut, again uttering a great bellow: this is a gathering cry for the beasts of the jungle. An elephant hears Buddy, sees the enemies, & gathers, with its trunk, acorns, which then it fires, to great effect, at the natives. Buddy catches a spear in his teeth, fires it back at its thrower, & catches the native, by his nose ring, on a tree; a kangaroo
Kangaroo
A kangaroo is a marsupial from the family Macropodidae . In common use the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, especially those of the genus Macropus, Red Kangaroo, Antilopine Kangaroo, Eastern Grey Kangaroo and Western Grey Kangaroo. Kangaroos are endemic to the country...
then emerges and punches the trapped enemy, while a smaller native kicks the belly of the beast, from which, naturally enough, emerges a baby kangaroo, which then takes a mighty and successful swing at the tiny belligerent. Apes load cocoanuts into an hippopotamus, & another ape swings from a tree to kick the beast, which then, by mouth, launches the palm projectiles at quickly frightened, retreating natives; dodging most, the fleeing warriors are struck from the rear by one, &, as they are running in a straight line, are bunched together at once, and thrown thus off a cliff, into the water beneath. A monkey emerges from the beak of a pelican
Pelican
A pelican, derived from the Greek word πελεκυς pelekys is a large water bird with a large throat pouch, belonging to the bird family Pelecanidae....
and fires cocoanuts at the tribal chief & his litter-bearers, knocking out the two servants & sending the chief flying; the hippopotamus continues to fire cocoanuts and hits the Chief numerous times. Another ape successfully uses a cat as a bow from which to fire long needles at the Chief's behind; Buddy, watching, swings down from his hut and catches his enemy by the neck. Wrestling the Chief into submission, Buddy again lets loose his jungle roar & is outfitted with the same crown worn, not a moment ago, by the defeated native chief.