An Elephant Never Forgets
An Elephant Never Forgets is a 1934 short cartoon film produced by Fleischer Studios and part of the Color Classics series. The film was directed by Dave Fleischer.[1]
| An Elephant Never Forgets | |
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| Directed by | Dave Fleischer |
| Produced by | Max Fleischer Adolph Zukor |
| Starring | Gus Wickie |
| Music by | Sammy Timberg Jack Scholl |
| Animation by | Seymour Kneitel Roland Crandall |
| Color process | Technicolor (Two-Strip) |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 7 minutes 19 Seconds |
| Language | English |
Plot
In the middle of the jungle, all animals go to school singing along. Among these animals is an elephant who leads the chorus, a piglet who is full of mud, and a highly indifferent hippo, who walks so slow that a snail rapidly passes him.
When they arrive in class, the elephant sits in front of a hostile monkey that uses a washboard to hit and annoy the elephant. In the meantime, the hippo simply sits outside the class and soundly sleeps.
The teacher, a goose, sings another song while asking the animals various questions. They all reply they can't remember, however, the elephant proceeds to remind them that he never forgets. This continues until the goose asks the elephant a simple math question, to which he shamefully admits to forget, and the class retorts him for it.
After this, the goose makes the class take a test, which she leaves in charge of the turtle.
As a joke, the animals use their quill pens to target the turtle's back, which looks like a dartboard.
After the test, the goose lets the class go home. The hippo then wakes up, and this time he gleefully runs home faster than a rabbit.
As the animals finish their sing along song, the monkey kicks the elephant, but gets hurt as the elephant placed the washboard in his overalls. He then hits the monkey in the head, and cheerfully recites his favorite slogan, "An elephant never forgets." [2]
Cast
Gus Wickie as the elephant/hippo
Animation department
- Roland Crandall: animator
- Seymour Kneitel: animator
- Jack Scholl: lyrics: song
- Sammy Timberg: music: song
- Lou Fleischer: music supervisor (uncredited)
- Sammy Timberg: musical director (uncredited)
References
- Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 66–67. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026310/
External links
- An Elephant Never Forgets on IMDb
- The short film An Elephant Never Forgets is available for free download at the Internet Archive