Title: Baby Huey Quack-a-Doodle-Doo
Year: 1954
Genres: Animation; Comedy; Family
Director: Seymour Kneitel
Cast (voices):
- Sid Raymond as Baby Huey
- Henry Corden as Papa Bear
- Mae Questel as Mama Bear
- Allen Swift as Various characters
Synopsis:
In this Noveltoon short, the oversized but naïve duckling Baby Huey waddles onto a tranquil farmyard, eager to make friends with the resident bears. His boundless enthusiasm and comical clumsiness—toppled fences, runaway wheelbarrows, and accidental haystack explosions—lead to a series of slapstick mishaps. Despite the initial chaos, the kindly Bear family comes to appreciate Huey’s good heart, culminating in a rollicking farmyard dance that unites the unlikely friends.
Trivia:
- Part of Famous Studios’ Noveltoon series released by Paramount Pictures, featuring Baby Huey’s earliest theatrical appearance.
- The character was created by cartoonists Martin Taras and Bob Givens, inspired by the popularity of “big baby” humor in the 1950s.
- Though produced under copyright, many of the original Paramount cartoons lapsed into the public domain in the 1970s due to non-renewal.
- Mae Questel, famous for voicing Betty Boop and Olive Oyl, contributed vocal effects for the bear family in this short.