The Captain tangles with the chickens -- and a duck -- who keep breaking into his truck garden in the third of the CAPTAIN AND THE KIDS cartoons, directed by Friz Freleng for Fred Quimby's unit at MGM.
It's a nice, lively cartoon, despite the absence of the Katzenjammer Kids. Cartoonist Rudolf Dirks had begun the strip in 1897 for Hearst's organization. Eventually he was lured away and tried to restart the strip. This wound up in court, with the decision that both strips could continue, but Dirks' version would have to be renamed "The Captain and the Kids.
As for Freleng, he had been lured away from Leon Schlesinger's cartoon factory by a higher salary and bigger budgets. After a couple of years, he was happy to return to Schlesinger, who began each screening with the order "Roll the c**p!", and where he made "You Ought To Be In Pictures" in expiation.
It's a nice, lively cartoon, despite the absence of the Katzenjammer Kids. Cartoonist Rudolf Dirks had begun the strip in 1897 for Hearst's organization. Eventually he was lured away and tried to restart the strip. This wound up in court, with the decision that both strips could continue, but Dirks' version would have to be renamed "The Captain and the Kids.
As for Freleng, he had been lured away from Leon Schlesinger's cartoon factory by a higher salary and bigger budgets. After a couple of years, he was happy to return to Schlesinger, who began each screening with the order "Roll the c**p!", and where he made "You Ought To Be In Pictures" in expiation.