A Day at the Zoo

A Day at the Zoo (1939)

A tour of the zoo, in typical Tex Avery style: a series of one-liners and sight gags, punctuated by Egghead teasing a lion at intervals, despite the admonishments of the narrator.

Date of release
1939-03-11
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (23)
Runtime
7m
Genres
Animation, Family, Comedy
Director
Tex Avery

Casting

  • Tex Avery — Other Elk Named Bill (voice) (uncredited)
  • Mel Blanc — Egghead / Elk Named Bill / Monkey / Parrot / Stool Pigeon / Mother Ostrich / Joe Jumbo / Wildcat (voice) (uncredited)
  • Robert C. Bruce — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Interesting facts

A Day at the Zoo is a 1939 American animated comedy short film directed by Fred Avery. The short was released on March 11, 1939. It is part of the Merrie Melodies series and the seventh cartoon to feature Elmer Fudd. This cartoon is in the public domain in the United States due to United Artists, the copyright owners to the pre-1948 cartoons at the time, failing to renew the copyright on time in 1967. It was re-released as a "Blue Ribbon" reissue in 1952, rendering the original film lost; Avery kept a nitrate fragment of the original titles, which was sold by his family in 2004 to a private collector, but still available publicly at extremely low definition.

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