Under the Shedding Chestnut Tree

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A pelican blacksmith is bedeviled by a tree, which drops its burred-covered chestnuts on a horse just as he is trying to shoe it.A pelican blacksmith is bedeviled by a tree, which drops its burred-covered chestnuts on a horse just as he is trying to shoe it.A pelican blacksmith is bedeviled by a tree, which drops its burred-covered chestnuts on a horse just as he is trying to shoe it.

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- Bob Wickersham
- Frank Tashlin
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- Bob Wickersham
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- Pinto Colvig
- Frank Graham

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- Bob Wickersham
- Frank Tashlin
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- Bob Wickersham
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- Pinto Colvig
- Frank Graham

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Pinto Colvig

Punchy Pelican
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Frank Graham

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- Bob Wickersham
- Frank Tashlin
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- Bob Wickersham
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The futility of the struggle against the illusion that is the world

Here we have a sequel of sorts to Tashlin's THE TANGLED ANGLER. Peter Pelican -- who played Elmer Fudd to the Bugs Bunny of the fish he was trying to catch, is now Longfellow's blacksmith, and as he stands under the spreading chestnut tree, it keeps dropping stickleburrs on him and worse, the horse he is trying to shoe -- and the horse kicks.

This is a pretty good cartoon, and Tashlin manages to vary the way the pelican and the tree manage to annoy each other to keep things interesting. Yet, at the same time, I think that Tashlin was trying to say something different and I have the oddest feeling that the tree is in some ways the World Tree -- and that Peter is missing out on a chance to escape the illusion that is the world.

Oh, well, probably just an illusion on my part. Enjoy the gags.

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Narrator: Under the shedding chestnut tree, by courtesy of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the village smithy stands, by courtesy of the FHA. The smith, a mighty man is he, with large and sinewy hands; and the muscles of his brawny arms are strong as iron bands. His brow is wet with honest sweat. He earns whate'er he can. He looks the whole world in the face, for he owes not any man.
Bill Collectors: [brandishing unpaid bills] Oh, yeah? Well, did Longfellow see these?