The Legend of Rockabye Point

Infobox Hollywood cartoon
cartoon_name = The Legend of Rockabye Point
series = Chilly Willy


caption =
director = Tex Avery
story_artist = Michael Maltese
animator = Ray Abrams
Laverne Harding
Don Patterson
layout_artist = Raymond Jacobs
background_artist =
narrator =
voice_actor =
musician = Clarence Wheeler
producer = Walter Lantz
studio = Walter Lantz Productions
distributor = Universal Pictures
release_date = April 1 1955
color_process = Technicolor
runtime = 6 minutes
preceded_by =
followed_by =
movie_language = English
imdb_id = 0048292

"The Legend of Rockabye Point" is a 1955 Chilly Willy cartoon directed by Tex Avery and produced by Walter Lantz. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Animated Short Film.

Plot

An old sailor tells the legend of a starving polar bear (Maxie) who attempted to steal food but kept running into a vicious guard dog. To placate the beast, the bear must sing "Rock-A-Bye Baby" to him to make him nod off. Unfortunately the dog wakes quickly at the slightest noise, and is cranky. The dog eventually chases the bear up a tall mountain. At the end of the picture the sailor says if you listen carefully you can to this day still hear the lullaby at night. Indeed, at the peak the pair stand--both very old and grey now--with the bear holding the dog tenderly and singing "Rock-A-Bye Baby".

Notes

*The bear has appeared in other Lantz pictures with Chilly and Smedley.
*Though billed as "A Chilly Willy Cartoon", the perpetually-cold penguin is only briefly seen.
*The cartoon was shown on both The Woody Woodpecker Show and The New Woody Woodpecker Show, which was named "A Chilly Classic Cartoon".

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