Talk:A Day at the Zoo

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Production Credits[edit]

The production credits for this cartoon, according to Dave Mackey's website, are:

Supervision: Fred "Tex" Avery
Story: Melvin Millar
Animation: Rollin Hamilton (uncredited: Virgil Ross, Sid Sutherland, Paul Smith)
Musical Direction: Carl W. Stalling
Production code (onscreen): 8747
Source: http://www.davemackey.com/animation/wb/1939.html

WikiPro1981X (talk) 22:22, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Poster"[edit]

First, it's not a poster, it's the cover of a video that supposedly contains the cartoon. Second, it's way too small to be able to read. The original at IMDB is readable, so, Third, there is no character named "Gabby" in the 1939 cartoon. So I'm not convinced they even got the right cover. In any case, the postage-stamp-sized illustration provides no useful information to the article, so it's gotta go. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 04:56, 11 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In fact, Gabby (cartoon) was a Fleischer Studios character, who featured in a 1941 cartoon called "Two For The Zoo". Someone's got things confused over at IMDB. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 05:02, 11 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

External Links[edit]

This YouTube version contains closed captions and an interactive trancript.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtblQQvT2Nk

I believe it has merit but should not post it as I am the creator. Please evaluate.

CartoonChick (talk) 21:23, 6 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Unless you're one of the Warner Brothers, you are not its creator; and the WB cartoons in general are under copyright, so they can't be used here. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 04:29, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I meant the creator of the transcript and the the video link, not the cartoon itself. It is my understanding that this cartoon is in the public domain. I see many other public domain cartoons with YouTube links. How is this different? I would appreciate any insight - I am new to Wikipedia. Thanks. CartoonChick (talk) 04:41, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I know what you meant, I was just teasing about that. As to the copyright, I know some of the cartoons are public domain, but I don't know which ones. You'll probably have to do some googling to find that out. If it's indeed PD, it could be fair game for this article. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 04:56, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I wasn't concerned regarding the public domain status as there is a link on the page to the internet archive. There's also a link to this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_in_the_public_domain My concern was that it's my understanding that I can't add my own link, which makes sense. Where I think this video has added value is that it has the entire transcript. If it were just the video, I wouldn't have made the request as it would provide no more value than the current link. I hope I'm making sense. Thanks for being tolerant of the newbie. CartoonChick (talk) 05:11, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]