Horton Hatches the Egg

United States

1942

10 Min

Color

1.37:1

English

Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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SCR Dr. Seuss, Michael Maltese

CAST Frank Graham, Sara Berner, Mel Blanc, Kent Rogers

ANIM Rod Scribner, Robert McKimson

In one of the earlier adaptations of Dr. Seuss’ works, Horton the elephant agrees to watch over lazy Maysie bird’s egg while she vacations. While Maysie is relaxing else where in the world, Horton is standing (and sitting) guard 100-percent back home, faith-fully through rain and snow.
In producing the cartoon, Clampett’s unit did not use a storyboard, as was the customary practice; instead, they sketched and wrote additional ideas for the cartoon in Clampett’s copy of Seuss’ book. —IMDb

Director

Robert Clampett

Clampett joined the Harman-Ising Studio in 1931, and in the early ‘30s began animating for the Warner Brothers’ “Loony Tunes” cartoons. He graduated to directing in the late 1930s, and until 1946 made some of the most hilarious and outrageous of the Warner cartoons: Porky In Wackyland, highlighted by some of Clampett’s most surreal humor; A Tale Of Two Kitties, which introduced Tweety Bird; A Corny Concerto, his Fantasia send-up; the race parody Coal Black And De Sebben Dwarfs; Russian Rhapsody, in which gremlins from the Kremlin sock it to Hitler; Draftee Daffy, with the little black duck trying to dodge the man from the draft board; Kitty Kornered, with Porky Pig bested by his pet cats; and The Big Snooze, a slapstick psychodrama with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, which marked Clampett’s final cartoon for Warners. After a brief stint at Screen Gems, Clampett turned to television and created the popular puppet show Time For Beany. In the late ’50s he animated his characters for the television… read more

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Con-Bot 2.0

16Mar12

One of the best and most underrated Dr. Seuss adaptations of all time, if not THE best. "Lorax" has nothing on this.

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JEDIDARRICK

17Mar12

While not the best Dr. Seuus adaptation (that honor goes to the animated How The Grinch Stole Christmas) it's one of the funniest!
Con-Bot 2.0

17Mar12

Definitely. "Well, now I've seen everything! *Fish shoots himself*"