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I Wanna Be a Sailor
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Directed byFred Avery
Produced byLeon Schlesinger
StarringMel Blanc
Elvia Allman
Billy Bletcher
Bernice Hansen
Robert Wrinkler (all uncredited)[1]
Music byCarl W. Stalling
Animation byPaul Smith
Virgil Ross
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Productions
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date
  • September 25, 1937 (1937-09-25)
Running time
7 min
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

I Wanna Be a Sailor is a 1937 American animated comedy short film directed by Fred Avery.[2] The short was released on September 25, 1937. It is the 83rd film in the Merrie Melodies series. It was re-released as a "Blue Ribbon" reissue in 1949, rendering the original film and credits lost.[3][4] It is the oldest color Warner Bros. cartoon to currently be in the public domain, as United Artists, then parent of Associated Artists Productions, neglected to renew its copyright in 1966.

Plot

Video for the short

A mother parrot in a cage is teaching her three children to say, "Polly want a cracker." The first two kids, Patrick and Patricia, manage after some effort, but Peter boldly refuses as he wants to be a sailor like his father. His mother tells him that their father, which unbeknownst to Peter is an abusive drunkard, left for Catalina (misremembered as Hawaii) while being drunk and never returned home. She flashed a searchlight and hoped for his return to no avail. To his mother's horror, Peter cries because of being disappointed, not convinced that being a sailor would be a mistake.

Peter leaves home to become a sailor. He bumps into a barrel, from which he builds a ship with a red pajama for a sail. He meets a curious but loquacious duckling, whom he silences by clamping his beak shut with a clothespin, but allows him to join in as a deck-swab. He uses a warning label from a poison bottle for a Jolly Roger flag, as they set sail. He enjoys breezing through the water and spits licorice like it is tobacco into the water towards a conveniently placed spittoon.

A thunderstorm brews, to the duckling's pleasure, while Peter, having never encountered poor weather, struggles to adapt. The anchor causes the barrel to break; the duckling has had enough of Peter's incompetence, but nevertheless brings him to shore before leaving. To the horror of Peter's mother, Peter has not learnt a single thing and still wants to be a sailor, causing her to ask the audience for assistance before passing out again.

Voice cast

Home media

References

  1. 1 2 3 Scott, Keith (October 3, 2022). Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2. BearManor Media. p. 26. ISBN 979-8-88771-010-5.
  2. Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 62. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
  3. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 104–106. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
  4. Parten, James (March 31, 2020). "Merrie Melodies 1937-38: More Old Friends |". Cartoon Research. Retrieved July 4, 2026.