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Little Johnny Jet (1953)

APPROVED 7 min  -  Family | Short | Comedy  -   18 April 1953 (USA)
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Virtually identical in plot terms to 'One Cab's Family' (1952), but this time round it concerns a family of aeroplanes and the problems Mom and Pop have with Junior... See full summary »

Director:

Tex Avery

Writer:

Heck Allen (story)

Stars:

Daws Butler
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Cast

Uncredited cast:
Daws Butler ...
Father Jet (uncredited)
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Storyline

Virtually identical in plot terms to 'One Cab's Family' (1952), but this time round it concerns a family of aeroplanes and the problems Mom and Pop have with Junior, whose obsession with speed leads him to acquire a jet engine... Written by Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk>  

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Jet | Airplane | Airplane Race | Legs | Leaning Tower Of Pisa  | See more »

Genres:

Family | Short | Comedy | Animation

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Country:

USA

Language:

English

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) See more »
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Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Color:

Color (Technicolor)
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Trivia

Though intended strictly as a spoof of circa-1952 domesticity, the cartoon's theme of a B-29 competing against Mach 1-capable jets reflected a building debate within the US Air Force then and later over the utility of piston-engined aircraft in the age of jets. In real life the B-29 that tries to reenlist in the Air Force would not have been rejected; the Air Force assigned B-29s and similar piston-engined aircraft to missions such as tactical and counterinsurgency bombing, photo-reconnaissance, and search-and-rescue. See more »

Goofs

Continuity: When John Sr flies & lands at the airfield he has four engines, two on each wing. When he hangs up his cockpit dome & props inside the hangar, he has only two engines. See more »

Quotes

Mary: [as John lines up with the jets at the contest, she arrives on the scene and begs him not to do it] John! Listen to me, John!
[as she's doing this, Junior gets out of the buggy and gets into the fuselage of John]
Mary: Listen to me, John!
[John shoves her away defiantly, then we cut to her looking into the empty buggy]
Mary: Junior?
[She looks over at John to see Junior smiling and waving from his cockpit]
Mary: [In horror] JUNIOR!
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"Rock-a-bye Baby"
Written by Effie I. Canning
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