Pantry Panic
About Pantry Panic
A groundhog posts that winter is coming, and the birds fly south. Woody Woodpecker stays to swim. The pond freezes under him in mid-dive. He has stored food, until a funnel cloud sucks the stores out of the cabin. Two weeks later he is staring at Starvation, drawn like a figure with a scythe. A month after that a hungry cat reaches the cabin, and each tries to cook the other. A moose shows up at the door. They eat it, then pick up knives again.
Cast & crew
More about Pantry Panic
Released by Universal Pictures on 24 November 1941. Seven minutes, in Technicolor. It is the third Woody Woodpecker short. The print carries no director credit. Walter Lantz later said he directed it. Animation is by Alex Lovy and LaVerne Harding. Ben Hardaway and Lowell Elliott wrote the story. Darrell Calker wrote the music. Ed Kiechle painted backgrounds.
Themes
Making
Lantz's name is not on the short as director. He claimed the direction afterward, and the animation credits belong to Lovy and Harding.
Music
Darrell Calker composed the score.
Preservation
A print is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Woody does not say "Guess Who?" in the opening titles. The laugh is still in the cartoon.
- Danny Webb speaks some of Woody's lines and also the cat and the moose. Mel Blanc does other Woody lines and the laugh. Kent Rogers has one Woody line and some birds. Margaret McKay and Marjorie Tarlton are also credited on bird voices.
- After the moose, Woody's voice drops out of the sped-up register for "Yeah, so am I.
Scenes
- Woody dives and the pond freezes around him.
- A funnel cloud empties the cabin of food.
- Full of moose, the cat and Woody reach for knives again.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Pantry Panic.webm)
Quotes
Must be hard water.
Y'know, I'm still hungry.
Yeah, so am I.
