A Day at the Zoo
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A Day At The Zoo
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| Directed by | Tex Avery |
| Produced by | Leon Schlesinger |
| Story by | Melvin Millar |
| Narrated by | Robert C. Bruce |
| Animation by | Rollin Hamilton |
| Studio | Leon Schlesinger Studios |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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| Running time | 7 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
A Day at the Zoo is a 1939 Warner Bros. animated cartoon in the Merrie Melodies series. It was directed by Tex Avery, with musical direction by Carl Stalling. It was written by Melvin Millar. No voice credits are given. Mel Blanc provides most of the incidental voices. The narrator is Robert C. Bruce.
This is one of the cartoons that Warner would occasionally produce featuring few or none of its stable of characters. It contains a series of gags, usually based on outrageous stereotypes and plays on words, and topical references, as a narrator (Robert C. Bruce) describes the action. This one is about a "tour" of a zoo (the "Kalama Zoo") where the animals have nonsensical names, display anthropomorphic behavior, illustrate punnish gags, or any combination thereof:
This final scene would be alluded to a decade later in Hare Do, in which Elmer Fudd (which evolved from Egghead) is swallowed up by a lion as part of the closing gag. This cartoon was one of Egghead's final appearances, along with 1939's Believe It or Else, a parody of Ripley's Believe It or Not!.
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