Walky Talky Hawky
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| Walky Talky Hawky
Merrie Melodies/Foghorn Leghorn series |
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| Directed by | Robert McKimson |
| Story by | Warren Foster |
| Voices by | Mel Blanc |
| Music by | Carl Stalling |
| Animation by | Richard Bickenbach Cal Dalton Don Williams |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Release date(s) | August 31, 1946 (USA premiere) |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 7 min (one reel) |
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Walky Talky Hawky is a Henery Hawk/Foghorn Leghorn animated short film from Warner Bros. released in 1946 and directed by Robert McKimson. All voice characterizations are performed by Mel Blanc.
Henery Hawk discuss his cravings with his father, who then tells him he is a chicken hawk and as such must feed on chickens. Meanwhile, in a barnyard, Foghorn Leghorn and The Barnyard Dawg are fighting.
Henery meets Foghorn, who tells him he is a horse and pretends the dog is a chicken. After a series of pranks and gags where both the dog and Foghorn argue over who is a chicken (with Foghorn famously accusing the Dog, "Don't you, I say don't you call ME a chicken, you chicken!"), and the two of them tangle with a horse, Henery captures Foghorn, the Dog, and the horse, mimicking Foghorn and telling the camera that "...one of these things, I SAY, ONE OF THESE THINGS, has got to be a chicken!"
The film is mostly notable for being an Academy Award for Animated Short Film Nominee, losing to MGM's Tom & Jerry cartoon The Cat Concerto, but it is also important for being Foghorn Leghorn's first appearance. Due to the film's success, the character later came back in a series of short films between 1947 and 1963.
Leghorn's imitation of a whinnying horse, effected by pressing a finger against the side of his nose and creating the nasal sound, mimics the technique Mel Blanc actually used to make the sound.
[edit] Availability
The short occurs in the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 3. It is also part of Bugs Bunny: Superstar Part 2 in the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 4.
