Buddy's Circus
| Buddy's Circus | |
|---|---|
| Looney Tunes (Buddy) series | |
| Directed by | Jack King |
| Produced by | Leon Schlesinger |
| Voices by | Jack Carr (uncredited) |
| Music by | Norman Spencer |
| Animation by |
Bob McKimson Ben Clopton |
| Studio | Leon Schlesinger Productions |
| Distributed by |
Warner Bros. The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date(s) | November 8, 1934 (USA) |
| Color process | Black-and-white |
| Running time | 7 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Buddy's Bearcats (1934) |
| Followed by | Buddy the Detective (1934) |
Buddy's Circus is an American animated short film. It is a Looney Tunes cartoon, featuring Buddy, the second star of the series. It was released on November 8, 1934, although one source suggests as a date August 25 of the same year. It was supervised by Jack King; musical direction was by Norman Spencer.
We come to a balloon, in which float Buddy and several animals, including an elephant, a lion, and a bear. Buddy looks through a spy-glass to see a sign that says "Buddy's Circus will arrive at 2:00 P.M." Checking his watch, Buddy sees that the time is nigh: he releases from his arms a gaggle of stakes, which land perfectly in a circle completed by the sign, and which are hammered into the earth by an octopus, which then is flattened by the landing balloon, which seamlessly morphs into a circus tent. Two men set up walls outside the tent, and one of them begins welcoming patrons to the show.
"Professor" Buddy plays the tusks of his "Musical Elephants" as a xylophone and then pulls their tails to the production of a woodwind sound. Buddy introduces, in verse, the "Ubangi twins", two performers who can play one another as musical instruments; "Oscar the Ubangi-phone," who can play records with his mouth; "Elastiko the India-Rubber Man", whose body can stretch to great lengths and whose skull can take great punishment; "Asbesto the Human Stove", who eats eggs and then, by X-ray, demonstrates his natural ability to cook them within his digestive tract. But none of this is the "big show," to which Buddy happily welcomes all of his guests. We come to a two ring circus, where ringmaster Buddy precedes a kangaroo (or two) with a trumpet, and lions jump through smoke rings blown by a reclining clown. One performer subjects himself to being lifted by his teeth with a rope, which reveals them to be dentures, which come out of his mouth and the performer falls to the ground. A baby enjoys the show whilst munching Cracker Jack until he drops the box out of which he is eating into the stands. Endeavoring to retrieve the box, the child enters the underside of the seats and swings from patron's leg to patron's leg until he finds the ground, where he reaches for his found Cracker Jack box, all of whose spilled contents then are absorbed by a playful elephant, which then takes a merry baby onto its trunk.
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