The Egg Cracker Suite (1943)
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- 7min
- Animation, Musical
- 22 Mar 1943 (USA)
- Short
Oswald Rabbit, in his last animated short, conducts a gaggle of hens in a symphony to get them to lay eggs. An Easter-themed cartoon.
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Cast
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| June Foray | ... |
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit / Cuckoo / Little Rabbit (uncredited)
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Florence Gill | ... |
Singing Hens (uncredited)
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Dorothy Lloyd | ... |
Singing Hens / Whistling Rabbit (uncredited)
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Directed by
| Ben Hardaway | ||
| Emery Hawkins | ||
Written by
| Milt Schaffer | ... | (story) |
Produced by
| Walter Lantz | ... | producer (as Walt Lantz) |
Music by
| Darrell Calker | ||
Editing by
| David Lurie | ... | (uncredited) |
Sound Department
| Bernard B. Brown | ... | sound director (uncredited) |
Animation Department
| Les Kline | ... | animator (as Lester Kline) |
| Robert Bentley | ... | animator (uncredited) |
| Fred Brunish | ... | background artist (uncredited) |
| Paul Busch | ... | animator (uncredited) |
| George Dane | ... | animator (uncredited) |
| Rollin Hamilton | ... | animator (uncredited) |
| Laverne Harding | ... | animator (uncredited) |
| Emery Hawkins | ... | character designer (uncredited) |
| Pat Matthews | ... | animator (uncredited) |
| Paul J. Smith | ... | animator (uncredited) |
Music Department
| Darrell Calker | ... | conductor (uncredited) / musical arrangement (uncredited) |
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- Universal Pictures (1943) (United States) (theatrical)
- General Film Distributors (GFD) (1945) (United Kingdom) (theatrical)
- MeTV (2023) (United States) (tv)
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Storyline
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Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, in his last animated short, conducts a symphony with a whole gaggle of hens (and one ostrich) to lay eggs for Easter. Each rabbit gets an egg, and the smallest one is (un)lucky enough to get the ostrich egg. Eggs are hard-boiled, then dyed, then the baskets are filled with grass, one egg, candy eggs, and topped with a bow before being loaded onto planes to be delivered all over the world. The poor bunny with the ostrich egg, however, is also loaded up with them when the egg hatches before he could get it in a plane, but all ends well for Easter. Written by jlentzlv@gmail.com |
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Did You Know?
| Trivia | The title is a play on "The Nutcracker Suite", composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. See more » |
| Goofs | Each bow that is initially placed on the baskets is blue, but when they're dumped out of the planes, they're different colors. See more » |
| Movie Connections | Featured in Episode dated 5 April 1980 (1980). See more » |
| Crazy Credits | The opening Universal logo in in black and white. See more » |
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Cuckoo:
[When the bunny in charge of hard-boiling the eggs doesn't respond]
Take em out! Take em out! Take em out! See more » |