I Wish I Had Wings

I Wish I Had Wings
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Airdate:	15 October 1932
Series:	Merrie Melodies
Production Number:	MM-2-2
Vitaphone Number:	5473
Runtime:	7 minutes
Crew
Director:	Rudolf Ising (uncredited)
Producer:	Hugh Harman Rudolf Ising Leon Schlesinger (associate producer)
Animated By:	Rollin Hamilton Paul J. Smith
Film Editor:	Bernard B. Brown (uncredited)
Musician:	Frank Marsales

I Wish I Had Wings is a 1932 Merrie Melodies short directed by Rudolf Ising.

Plot

It's morning on a farm, and a rooster awakens the chickens and the geese. The chicks run from a bigger hen, leaving her behind. She grabs a worm and divides it for the kids to eat. Soon after a chick has a fight with a worm. The father rooster arrives with Doctor Stork, who comes out with a basket full of white chicks and one black chick. The black chick is quickly forgotten, and sings "I Wish I Had Wings". Using a pair of discarded girdles as wings, and bloomers as a parachute he prepares to get a meal, until he runs into a scarecrow, but he's able to ward that off.

Availability

(1997) LaserDisc
The Golden Age of Looney Tunes: Volume 5, Side 1, Black and White Classics (USA 1995 Turner print)

(2023) Blu-ray
Tarzan the Ape Man (restored)

Streaming

HBO Max (2020 - 2023) (restored)

Max (2023 - ) (restored)

Notes

• The animation of the chicken laying on her eggs and knitting while humming "Rock-a-Bye-Baby" was reused three years later and rotoscoped for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon short "The Lost Chick" (1935).
• The HBO Max restoration's audio is sourced from the 1995 Turner foreign music-and-effects track instead of the original English track. As a result, most of the voices are muted.
• This cartoon entered the public domain in 1961 as United Artists did not renew the copyright in time.

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