The Dizzy Acrobat
Infobox Hollywood cartoon
cartoon_name = The Dizzy Acrobat
series = Woody Woodpecker
caption =
director =Walter Lantz
story_artist =Ben Hardaway Milt Schaffer
animator =Emery Hawkins
voice_actor =Ben Hardaway (uncredited)
musician = Darrell Calker
producer = Walter Lantz
studio =Walter Lantz Productions
distributor = Universal Pictures
release_date = flagicon|USMay 21 ,1943
color_process =Technicolor
runtime = 6' 30"
movie_language = English
preceded_by = "The Screwball "
followed_by = "Ration Bored "
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0035812"The Dizzy Acrobat" is the eighth
animated cartoon short subject in the "Woody Woodpecker " series. Released theatrically onMay 21 ,1943 , the film was produced byWalter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures.Plot
Woody Woodpecker visits a traveling circus. He attempts to sneak into the
big top but a caretaker kicks him out. He says that if Woody wants to see the show, he will have to water the elephant. Woody attaches the elephant to a water spout and attempts again to enter the tent.The caretaker chases him around the circus and into the big top. He continues to try and catch Woody but finds himself caught in several circus performance contraptions, including a
trapeze , atightrope , a perch pole, a lion's cage and a bicycle.Academy Award
This film was nominated for an Academy Award in
1944 for Best Short Subject, Cartoons. It lost to "The Yankee Doodle Mouse ", a "Tom and Jerry " film produced byFred Quimby . It was the fifth film fromWalter Lantz to be nominated in this category.Cultural References
*Woody sings the popular children's tune "
The Animal Fair " at the start of "The Dizzy Acrobat".
*A sign indicates that the circus's Rubber Man is "Gone for the duration." This is a gag referencing the United Statesrationing of rubber duringWorld War II .
*While Woody is on the trapeze, a variation ofJohann Strauss II 's "Blue Danube Waltz " can be heard in the background score.ee also
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List of Woody Woodpecker theatrical cartoons References
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