The Gay Anties

The Gay Anties
Short Information
Series:	Merrie Melodies (Blue Ribbon)
Production No.:	8-15
Reel No.:	1522
Blue Ribbon No.:	1351
Directed by	Friz Freleng (Credited as I. Freleng)
Uncredited Producer	Eddie Selzer
Story	Tedd Pierce Michael Maltese
Animation	Ken Champin Virgil Ross Gerry Chiniquy Manuel Perez
Layouts	Hawley Pratt
Backgrounds	Philip DeGuard
Uncredited Film Editor	Treg Brown
Uncredited Vocal Effects	Mel Blanc
Musical Direction	Carl Stalling
Uncredited Orchestration	Milt Franklyn
MPAA No.:	10798
Production company(s)	Warner Bros. Cartoons Vitaphone
Distributor	Warner Bros.
Release date(s):	February 15, 1947
Color process	Technicolor
Language	English
Preceded by	The Goofy Gophers
Followed by	Scent-imental Over You

The Gay Anties is a Merrie Melodies cartoon short, produced by Warner Bros., directed by Friz Freleng and written by Michael Maltese and Tedd Pierce, and released February 15, 1947.

Title

The title is a play on "the gay nineties," the decade in which this short is set.

Plot

A colony of ants surreptitiously invade a young couple's park picnic in the 1890s and contrive to steal their food. The gags include a scene in which the ants, frustrated three times in their efforts to make off with a sandwich, spread mustard on the back of the girlfriend's hand and trick the boyfriend into biting it, and one in which a female ant sings an overly melodramatic song ("Time Waits for No One") which gets the other ants to run for cover.

External links

• Internet Movie Database article at [1]
• Big Cartoon Database article at [2]

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