Walky Talky Hawky

Infobox Hollywood cartoon
cartoon_name = Walky Talky Hawky
series = Merrie Melodies/Foghorn Leghorn


caption =
director = Robert McKimson
story_artist = Warren Foster
animator = Richard Bickenbach
Cal Dalton
Don Williams
voice_actor = Mel Blanc
musician = Carl Stalling
producer =
distributor = Warner Bros. Pictures
release_date = August 31, 1946 (USA premiere)
color_process = Technicolor
runtime = 7 min (one reel)
movie_language = English
imdb_id = 0039093

"Walky Talky Hawky" is a Henery Hawk/Foghorn Leghorn animated short film from Warner Bros. released in 1946 and directed by Robert McKimson. All voice characterizations are performed by Mel Blanc.

Henery Hawk discuss his cravings with his father, who then tells him he is a chicken hawk and as such must feed on chickens. Meanwhile, in a barnyard, Foghorn Leghorn and The Barnyard Dawg are fighting.

Henery meets Foghorn, who tells him he is a horse and pretends the dog is a chicken. After a series of pranks and gags where both the dog and Foghorn argue over who is a chicken (with Foghorn famously accusing the Dog, "Don't you, I say don't you call ME a chicken, you chicken!"), and the two of them tangle with a horse, Henery captures Foghorn, the Dog, "and the horse", mimicking Foghorn and telling the camera that "...one of these things, I SAY, ONE OF THESE THINGS, has "got" to be a chicken!"

The film is mostly notable for being an Academy Award for Animated Short Film Nominee, losing to MGM's Tom & Jerry cartoon "The Cat Concerto", which shared one of 7 oscars for the cat and mouse team.

Leghorn's imitation of a whinnying horse, effected by pressing a finger against the side of his nose and creating the nasal sound, mimics the technique Mel Blanc actually used to make the sound.

Availability

The short occurs in the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 3. It is also part of "Bugs Bunny: Superstar" Part 2 in the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 4.

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