Pantry Panic
| Pantry Panic | |
|---|---|
| Woody Woodpecker series | |
| Directed by | Walter Lantz |
| Produced by | Walter Lantz |
| Story by |
Ben Hardaway L.E. Elliott |
| Voices by | Danny Webb Sara Berner Bernice Hansen Jack Mercer Pinto Colvig Mel Blanc |
| Music by | Darrell Calker |
| Animation by |
Animated by: Walter Lantz Artists: Alex Lovy Lester Kline LaVerne Harding (uncredited) |
| Studio | Walter Lantz Productions |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
| Release date(s) | November 24, 1941 |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 6' 55" |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | The Screwdriver |
| Followed by | The Hollywood Matador |
Pantry Panic is the third animated cartoon short in the Woody Woodpecker series. Released theatrically on November 24, 1941, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures. It is also on 50 Classic Cartoons Volume 1.
Woody stays behind to swim while the other birds in the forest migrate south for the winter. Just after the other birds leave, the cold of winter sets in instantly, to the point that Woody's swimming hole freezes solid after he jumps in ("Must be hard water", he remarks). Woody does not worry, because he has stored up plenty of food. However, a snow storm enters his house and makes off with all of his possessions, food included.
Two weeks later, Woody is delusional and literally staring starvation, personified as something vaguely resembling the Grim Reaper, in the face. A month later, a hungry cat happens upon Woody's cabin, and conspires to eat the woodpecker. The famished Woody, however, plans just as quickly to eat the cat, and the two have at it. Eventually a moose appears at Woody's open door, and the starving cat and woodpecker chase after it to capture and eat it. Afterwards, however, the meal proves not to be enough to satisfy both Woody (whose voice is suddenly much different) and the cat, who instantly resume their game of trying to eat each other.
Danny Webb was the voice of Woody Woodpecker; the Cat and the Moose, and bird voices were likely done by Sara Berner, Bernice Hansen, Jack Mercer, Pinto Colvig, and Mel Blanc.
Like most of the early 1940s Lantz cartoons, Pantry Panic carried no director's credit. Lantz himself has claimed to have directed this cartoon, which features animation by Alex Lovy and LaVerne Harding, a story by Ben Hardaway and Lowell Elliott, and music by Darrell Calker.
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