A Bear for Punishment

A Bear for Punishment is a 1951 animated Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Chuck Jones.[1] The short was released on October 20, 1951, and stars the Three Bears.[2]

A Bear for Punishment
Directed byCharles M. Jones
Produced byEdward Selzer (uncredited)
Story byMichael Maltese
StarringBea Benaderet
Billy Bletcher
Stan Freberg (all uncredited)
Music byCarl Stalling
Animation byKen Harris
Phil Monroe
Lloyd Vaughan
Ben Washam
Layouts byRobert Gribbroek
Backgrounds byPhilip DeGuard
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date
October 20, 1951 (USA)
Running time
7:10
LanguageEnglish

The march, "Father", performed by Junior and Ma, is a special vocal written to the tune of "Frat", a long-standing Warner cartoon staple. This is also one of few shorts where Mel Blanc does not provide a voice for any character.[3]

Reception

Animation historian Greg Ford writes that A Bear for Punishment is "a tour de force depicting Maw and Junyer's overzealous salute to Father's Day... As outrageous as Ken Harris's animation of this pageant is, Jones's drawings of Paw, in intercut reaction shots, are even funnier... It is typical of Jones's direction that, even in the midst of one of the most energetic, floridly animated scenes in cartoon history, the primacy of the single drawing should reassert itself."[4]

References
  1. Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 228. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
  2. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. p. 147. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  3. Furniss, Maureen, ed. (2005). Chuck Jones: Conversations. University Press of Mississippi. pp. 80–81. ISBN 978-1578067299.
  4. Beck, Jerry, ed. (2020). The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons. Insight Editions. pp. 16–17. ISBN 978-1-64722-137-9.


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