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− | [[File:Gay_anties.jpg|thumb|Blue Ribbon Re-Issue Titles]] |
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+ | |name = The Gay Anties |
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− | [[File:Gayanties.jpg|thumb|260px|right]] |
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+ | |image = [[file:86d7f1002b1dca055472da541a99407e.jpg|280px]] |
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+ | |Director = [[Friz Freleng|I. Freleng]] |
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+ | |producer = [[Eddie Selzer]] (uncredited) |
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+ | |airdate = February 15, 1947 |
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+ | |series = [[Merrie Melodies]] |
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+ | |Voice = [[Mel Blanc]] |
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+ | |Starring = Ants<br>Couple |
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+ | |previous = [[The Goofy Gophers]] |
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+ | |next = [[Scent-imental over You]] |
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+ | |Writer = [[Michael Maltese]]<br>[[Tedd Pierce]] |
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+ | |Animators = [[Ken Champin]]<br>[[Virgil Ross]]<br>[[Gerry Chiniquy]]<br>[[Manuel Perez]] |
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+ | |Layout-artist = [[Hawley Pratt]] |
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+ | |Background-artist = [[Hawley Pratt]] |
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+ | |Sound effects = [[Treg Brown]] (uncredited) |
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+ | |Musician = [[Carl W. Stalling|Carl Stalling]] |
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+ | |Video = [[File:Merrie Melodies - The Gay Anties (Dubbed Version)|thumb|center|280px]] |
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+ | [[File:Merrie Melodies Cartoons The Gay Anties |thumb|center|280px]] |
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+ | }} |
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+ | '''The Gay Anties''' is a [[1947]] ''[[Merrie Melodies]]'' short directed by [[Friz Freleng]]. |
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+ | == Title == |
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− | '''The Gay Anties''' was a [[Merrie Melodies]] cartoon short, produced by [[Warner Bros.]], directed by [[Friz Freleng]] and written by [[Michael Maltese]] and [[Tedd Pierce]], and released February 15, 1947. |
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+ | The title is a play on "the gay nineties," the decade in which this short is set. |
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− | ==Plot== |
+ | == Plot == |
− | A colony of ants surreptitiously invade a young couple's park picnic in the 1890s and contrive to steal their food. The |
+ | A colony of ants surreptitiously invade a young couple's park picnic in the 1890s and contrive to steal their food. The ants, frustrated three times in their efforts to make off with a sandwich, spread mustard on the back of the girlfriend's hand and trick the boyfriend into biting it. A female ant sings an overly melodramatic song, "Time Waits for No One", which gets the other ants to run for cover. |
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+ | == Gallery == |
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+ | Gayanties.jpg |
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+ | </gallery> |
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+ | {{DEFAULTSORT:Gay Anties, The}} |
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[[Category:Merrie Melodies Shorts]] |
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[[Category:Blue Ribbon reissues]] |
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+ | [[Category:Cartoons written by Tedd Pierce]] |
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+ | [[Category:Cartoons written by Michael Maltese]] |
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+ | [[Category:Cartoons with layouts by Hawley Pratt]] |
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+ | [[Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Hawley Pratt]] |
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+ | [[Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling]] |
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+ | [[Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown]] |
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+ | [[Category:Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown]] |
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+ | [[Category:Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn]] |
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+ | [[Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc]] |
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+ | [[Category:Cartoons produced by Eddie Selzer]] |
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+ | [[Category:Cartoons in a.a.p. package]] |
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+ | [[Category:One-Shot Cartoons]] |
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Revision as of 20:10, 13 January 2020
Template:Infobox Shorts wTabs The Gay Anties is a 1947 Merrie Melodies short directed by Friz Freleng.
Title
The title is a play on "the gay nineties," the decade in which this short is set.
Plot
A colony of ants surreptitiously invade a young couple's park picnic in the 1890s and contrive to steal their food. The ants, frustrated three times in their efforts to make off with a sandwich, spread mustard on the back of the girlfriend's hand and trick the boyfriend into biting it. A female ant sings an overly melodramatic song, "Time Waits for No One", which gets the other ants to run for cover.