File:Screwball Squirrel (1944)

Description
Screwball Squirrel is a 1944 one-reel animated cartoon. It was produced in Technicolor and released on April 1, 1944 by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. It was directed by Tex Avery and produced by Fred Quimby (uncredited) and music by Scott Bradley. Animation by Preston Blair, Ed Love and Ray Abrams. The short is notable for featuring the first appearance of Screwy Squirrel created by Tex Avery for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, generally considered the wackiest of the screwball cartoon characters of the 1940s, which included Warner Bros.'s Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, Disney's Aracuan Bird, Terrytoons's Heckle and Jeckle and Walter Lantz's Woody Woodpecker.

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