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Posted by Howard Kramer (Member # 1575) on May 11, 2009, 05:23 PM:

WOODY WOODPECKER in "THE BARBER OF SEVILLE"

Castle Films - Black & White - Super 8mm Sound - Original Box

** LIKE NEW ** $15.00 postage paid (USA only)

Offer ends 5/31/09

The Barber of Seville is the tenth animated cartoon short subject in the Woody Woodpecker series. Released theatrically on April 22, 1944, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures.

Woody arrives at "Tony Figaro's" barber shop in hopes of getting a "victory haircut" (a then-contemporary World War II reference). Finding the shop's proprietor out for an Army physical, Woody attempts to cut his own hair and those of other customers with comic results. The first customer, a Native American, asks the woodpecker for "a quick shampoo". What he gets instead, however, is a headdress reduced to a badminton shuttlecock by hot towels.

"You give chief the bird," the angry client remarks while holding the shuttlecock, "me give you scalp treatment!"

"Oh no, Chiefie," responds Woody. "Me give you scalp treatment!" With that, Woody bops the chief over the head with a mallet, and launches him out of the barber's chair and across the street, where he lands and becomes a Cigar store Indian.

The second customer is a burly Italian construction worker, who comes in and asks for "the whole works". Once Woody blow-torches the man's construction helmet off his head, he proceeds to lather his client's face, chin, mouth, and boots while singing Rossini's Largo al factotum. Woody then produces a sharp razor and begins shaving the man. Woody elevates the barber's chair to the ceiling whiles singing an aria, allowing the man to fall to the ground and destroy the chair. Woody then begins liberally swinging the razor at his frightened client, who runs to escape him. A chase throughout the barbershop ensues - as Woody doubles the tempo of his singing - until the woodpecker corners the man in the barber's chair and proceeds to give him a shave and haircut at manic speed. The construction worker is dusted off and sent out the door on his way, but the angry client enacts a quick bit of revenge as Woody begins to laugh. The man picks Woody up and slings him through a glass window and back inside the shop, where the woodpecker lands and is bopped by shaving mugs falling from a broken shelf. As a last touch, the barber's pole falls on Woody, whose head is seen caught and mangled inside the pole as the cartoon irises out.

The Barber of Seville was voted as number forty-three of The 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time, as voted by 1000 animation professionals and edited by Jerry Beck.

Will consider trade for any 16mm sound print in any playable condition of:

The Beverly Hillbillies (TV - black & white episodes ONLY)
Gomer Pyle (TV)
Any "Chimp" adventure (Castle Films)
Any Laurel and Hardy

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