Now That Summer Is Gone

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Airdate:
14 May 1938 Blue Ribbon reissue: 22 November 1947

Series:

Merrie Melodies

MPAA Number:	Production Number:	Vitaphone Number:
4111	MM-13-7	8403

Runtime:

6 minutes, 7 seconds (reissue)

Copyright Renewed:

27 September 1965^[1]

Crew

Voice Characterizations:

Mel Blanc
Billy Bletcher
Bill Days
Paul Taylor Choristers (all uncredited)^[2]

Director:

Frank Tashlin

Written By:

Fred Niemann

Producer:

Leon Schlesinger

Animated By:

Bob McKimson
Robert Bentley (uncredited)
Ken Harris (uncredited)
Volney White (uncredited)
Joe D'Igalo (uncredited)^[3]

Background Artist:

Art Loomer (uncredited)

Film Editor:

Treg Brown (uncredited)

Musician:

Carl W. Stalling

Now That Summer Is Gone is a 1938 Merrie Melodies short directed by Frank Tashlin.

Plot[]

Despite his father's advice not to gamble, a young squirrel still insists on the "easy way" of getting his nuts for winter. Before the first snow comes, the young squirrel is told to get their winter supply of nuts from the First Nutional Bank, and just before he leaves the front door, his father reminds him, "And remember; no gambling!" On his way home with his nuts, the young squirrel sees a stranger who offers him a game of chance, and the foolish young squirrel, despite his father's warning, quickly jumps at the chance. Despite his best efforts, the foolish young squirrel loses at every chance game.

The squirrel is out of luck and now out of the entire supply of winter nuts. The snow starts to fall and the foolish squirrel heads home with no nuts and no luck in telling his father the truth. So, as he enters his home he makes up a lie and tells his father that he was robbed by bandits, jumped and badly attacked by them. But his lying ends very quickly as he discovers that the stranger who won the nuts from him was none other than his own father, who did it to teach his gambling son a lesson. The lesson, however, does not work. When his father is about to give his son ten lashes, he tells his father "I'll flip you for it, double or nothing". The foolish squirrel's end is heavily paddled.

Availability[]

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Notes[]

This is the only known Warner Bros. cartoon in which writer Fred Niemann received credit.
The print that airs on the American Turner Entertainment networks is the Associated Artists Productions print, due to the squirrel screaming at the end being part of the cue. Other dubbing tracks, such as Polish, Castilian Spanish, and Latin American Spanish on their 1995 prints, cut this screaming out by replacing the original 1938 ending rendition with the 1941–55 ending rendition of "Merrily We Roll Along". The American and European Turner prints' original English audios, however, do not have this edit.