Buddy of the Apes

Buddy of the Apes
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Airdate:	26 May 1934
Series:	Looney Tunes
Production Number:	6217
Copyright Renewed:	26 October 1962
Starring:	Buddy
Crew
Voice Characterizations:	Jack Carr Billy Bletcher
Director:	Ben Hardaway
Producer:	Leon Schlesinger
Animated By:	Paul Smith Sandy Walker
Film Editor:	Bernard B. Brown (uncredited) Treg Brown (uncredited)
Musician:	Bernard Brown Norman Spencer (uncredited)

Buddy of the Apes is a 1934 Looney Tunes short directed by Ben Hardaway.

Plot

Buddy encounters African natives. He gets help from animals, and together they fight half-naked natives.

Television

• Sunset Productions (1955-1968)

Censorship

• The Guild Films/Sunset Productions print of this short cuts the scene of the "look-out" cannibal native alerting the cannibal chief about Buddy and the animals.
• Although this short was in Nickelodeon's package of Buddy shorts, it never aired for its heavy African stereotyping.

Notes

• The audio of Buddy's Tarzan yell was later reused for the Johnny Weissmuller caricature in "The CooCoo Nut Grove".
• The animation of the African Natives running towards the camera was later reused in "Buddy's Theatre" and "Speaking of the Weather", and they're re-drawn as the Dirty Sleeves in "Ali-Baba Bound".

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