Rocket-Bye Baby
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Rocket-Bye Baby is a 1956 Warner Bros. animated cartoon in the Merrie Melodies series, directed by Chuck Jones.[1] The short was released on August 4, 1956.[2]
Rocket-Bye Baby | |
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Directed by | Chuck Jones |
Story by | Michael Maltese |
Produced by | Edward Selzer (uncredited) |
Starring | Daws Butler (uncredited) June Foray (uncredited) |
Narrated by | Daws Butler (opening, uncredited) |
Music by | Milt Franklyn (arrangement) |
Animation by | Ken Harris Abe Levitow Ben Washam Harry Love (special animation effects) |
Layouts by | Ernie Nordli |
Backgrounds by | Phillip DeGuard |
Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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Running time | 7 minutes |
Language | English |
The Michael Maltese story follows the adventures of a baby from Mars who ends up on Earth after the planets pass close to each other and create a 'cosmic force'. It was Warner Brothers' take on the borderline hysteria surrounding UFOs in the 1950s.
The cartoon is one of a very few Warner Brothers short films of the era that did not use Mel Blanc's voice talent. Instead, Daws Butler, famous for the voices of Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound and other characters in the Hanna-Barbera oeuvre, and June Foray, most famous as the voice of Rocky the Flying Squirrel, provided the vocal content of the short.