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Dumb-Hounded is a 1943 American animated short film directed by Tex Avery and written by Rich Hogan. It was the first cartoon to feature Droopy . [ 1 ] The film was released on March 20, 1943 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer .
Droopy first appeared in the MGM cartoon Dumb-Hounded, released on March 20, 1943. Droopy's first scene is when he saunters into view, looks at the audience, and declares, "Hello, all you happy people ... you know what? I'm the hero." In the cartoon, Droopy is tracking an escaped convict and is always waiting for the crook wherever he turns up.
Dumb-Hounded: 1943 First appearance of Droopy; DVD: Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection; Blu-Ray: Tex Avery Screwball Classics: Volume 1 [15] 4 Red Hot Riding Hood: 1943 Originally withheld from broadcast during the television restrictions code for its suggestive material. First appearance of Red.
Avery's best-known MGM character debuted in Dumb-Hounded (1943). Droopy (originally "Happy Hound") was a small, calm, slow-moving, and slow-talking dog who always won out in the end, whatever difficulties he faced.
March 20, 1943: Droopy: Dumb-Hounded: Tex Avery: 92 • First appearance of Droopy, although he is not identified by that name yet. • Features "Runnin' Wild" as the theme tune. • Tex Avery Screwball Classics: Volume 1 DVD and Blu-ray. [49] • Tex Avery's Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection DVD [50] April 24, 1943 — The Boy and the ...
Tex Avery Screwball Classics: Volume 1 was released on Blu-ray on February 18, 2020, and on DVD on December 1 with 19 shorts. All shorts are presented uncut (with a warning stating that the cartoons shown are products of their time and may contain jokes that, by today's standards, are considered racially insensitive) and digitally restored.
March 20: Tex Avery's Dumb-Hounded is first released, produced by MGM, marking the debut of Droopy. [17] March 25: The Japanese war-time propaganda short MomotarÅ no Umiwashi is first released. [18] [19] [20] [21]
Droopy, voiced by Bill Thompson (a.k.a. "Wallace Wimple" on NBC Radio's Fibber McGee and Molly show) debuted in 1943 with Dumb-Hounded. He appeared in several more Avery cartoons (including Northwest Hounded Police) before being officially given his own series in 1949 with Señor Droopy.