| American Indian Elephant | |
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Real Name |
Unknown |
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First Appearance |
Who's Who in the Zoo (February 14, 1942) |
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Original Publisher |
Warner Bros |
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Created by |
Norman McCabe & Melvin Millar |
Origin[]
The American Indian Elephant was a gag character featured in the animated short Who's Who in the Zoo (1942).
Some of the other gags featured included include a "missing lynx", a "tortoise and the hair", "March hares" who march to a drumbeat, a down-on-his-luck "bum steer", an and a bald eagle wearing a toupee.
Who's Who in the Zoo is one of the cartoons that Warner would occasionally produce, particularly in the World War II era, that featured a series of loosely related gags, usually based on outrageous stereotypes and plays on words, as a narrator (in this case Robert C. Bruce) describes the action. The plot is substantially similar to that of 1939's A Day at the Zoo, except that Porky Pig appears as the zookeeper of the "Azusa Zoo.
Public Domain Animated Appearances[]
- Who's Who in the Zoo (1942)
Notes[]
- This cartoon entered the public domain in 1970 due to Warner Bros. not renewing the copyright.
- Despite Porky Pig being heavily featured in Who's Who in the Zoo, Porky himself does not enter the public domain until 2031 due to his first cartoon, I Haven't Got a Hat (1935), still being under copyright.
- When the computer-colorized version of this short aired on Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon, the sight gag involving an Indian elephant behaving like a Native American warrior was deleted, though other stations like Cartoon Network and Boomerang have aired this scene uncut.