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Blitz Wolf is a 1942 American animated propaganda short film produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. A parody of the Three Little Pigs told via a World War II perspective, the short was directed by Tex Avery (in his first cartoon for MGM) and produced by Fred Quimby. [2] It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Short Subject ...
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Feb 25, 2023 · After over a year, this page is now active again! This is the restored print of the 1942 Tex Avery cartoon "Blitz Wolf". Ripped from Tex Avery Screwball Classics: Volume 3. I don't own any of this, though I do own this account. Addeddate.
- 10 min
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- TexAverestored
Apr 15, 2015 · A Spin Special: Stan Freberg analyzes Tex Avery's first MGM cartoon, a classic anti-Nazi parody with a Disney finesse and a brisk pace. Learn about the animation, the gags, the characters and the Oscar nomination of this hilarious and influential cartoon.
Blitz Wolf: Directed by Tex Avery. With Leone Le Doux, Sara Berner, Pinto Colvig, Frank Graham. Yet another variation on the Three Little Pigs theme, this time told as WW2 anti-German propaganda (the US had just entered the war), with the wolf as a thinly-disguised Hitler.
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- Animation, Comedy, Short
- Tex Avery
- 1942-08-22
Blitz Wolf is a 1942 American animated propaganda short film produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. A parody of the Three Little Pigs told via a World War II perspective, the short was directed by Tex Avery and produced by Fred Quimby. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons but lost to Der Fuehrer's Face, another anti-Nazi World War II parody ...
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Any similarity between this Wolf and that ( *!!*%) jerk Hitler is purely intentional! note. —Opening Narrative Card. "Blitz Wolf" is a 1942 MGM cartoon, and the first one to be directed by Tex Avery in his long tenure there. It has the distinction of being the very first direct anti-German Wartime Cartoon made during the 1940s, and it pulls ...
According to longtime animator and producer Chuck Jones in his autobiography "Chuck Amuck", while this cartoon was in production, MGM's animation producer Fred Quimby told Tex Avery to be careful when caricaturing Adolf Hitler, saying, "After all, we don't know who's going to win the war". First appearance of Woolfy.
