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Posted by Maurice Leakey (Member # 916) on July 19, 2013, 05:38 AM:

I have just purchased the Walter Lantz Castle release of "After The Ball" (1956). The box has a large picture, and name, of Pierre Bear. He was a new character introduced by Lantz in the hope of obtaining a new cartoon "star".
This is a bit odd because it starts with the Woody Woodpecker song, and finishes with "A Woody Woodpecker Cartune". Hardly a way to interest the public in a new character.
The film has Pierre as the owner of a bowling ball factory who chops down the tree where Woody lives, Woody causes havoc at the factory, and finally the end shows Woody living in a bowling ball complete with a picket fence around it.
Pierre Bear did not find fame, only four were issued by Castle, and in Maltin's cartoon book "Of Mice And Magic" the film is described as starring Woody Woodpecker.

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