Buddy's Theatre
| Buddy's Theatre | |
|---|---|
| Looney Tunes (Buddy) series | |
| Directed by | Ben Hardaway |
| Produced by | Leon Schlesinger |
| Voices by |
Jack Carr Bernice Hansen (both uncredited) |
| Music by | Norman Spencer |
| Animation by |
Don Williams Sandy Walker |
| Studio | Leon Schlesinger Productions |
| Distributed by |
Warner Bros. The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date(s) | April 1, 1935 (USA) |
| Color process | Black-and-white |
| Running time | 7 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Buddy the Dentist (1934) |
| Followed by | Buddy's Pony Express (1935) |
Buddy's Theatre is an American animated short film, released April 1, 1935. It is a Looney Tunes cartoon, featuring Buddy, the second star of the series. It was supervised by Ben Hardaway; musical direction was by Norman Spencer.
The film opens to Buddy's movie theater, to which hundreds of eager moviegoers flock for tonight's triple feature. Our Hero distributes tickets, but excuses himself for a moment to answer the telephone; as he speaks, a small child ingests the entire roll of tickets, leaving Buddy to use the child as a disburser unit. One patron orders a single ticket, only to walk past the ticket booth to reveal that she is in fact harboring an older gentleman under her coat! All on a sudden, Buddy is out of tickets. He closes the window, leaving the toddler alone on the edge; the child begins to cry, but Buddy solves this by handing him a lollipop.
Buddy picks up several reels of to take up to the projection room. Having happily surmounted several flights of stairs, he encounters difficulty in opening the door of the room. The force of his final, successful tug sends him sliding down the banister on the same path that he took upward. The film is tumbling as well. Luckily, Buddy reaches the floor first, and the reels pile up neatly into his waiting hands as he continues his slide on the ground level. Buddy, movie in hand, crashes into a water fountain, and the reels fly out of his hand and behind him, piling up neatly once again. Undaunted, he picks them up.
Within the auditorium, one patron, sitting on the aisle, is continually annoyed by other patrons wishing to pass him and sit in the same row. Frustrated enough, he rips his mounted seat out of the ground and moves into the aisle. Before the main feature (a picture starring Cookie & titled "The Chinchilla"), we see a newsreel. In Italy, Prime Minister "Mausoleum" (Benito Mussolini) has lowered the mandatory age for military service, and so several toddlers in uniform stride past him for review. In "Yodel", Switzerland, the Swiss navy launches the nation's newest battle cruiser, which sinks into the sea not a moment after her first embarkation. The Swiss officials present show a pleasant apathy for the situation!
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