The Eager Beaver
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.
- Distributor
- Warner Bros.
Synopsis
A group of beavers is frantically building a dam before the arrival of a flooding river. A little beaver tries to help in the dam-building effort.
Characters
Little Beaver, Beavers, Beaver Foreman, Baby Hawks
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Chuck Jones (as Charles M. Jones)
Producing
- Producer
- Edward Selzer
Writing
- Writer
- Tedd Pierce
Animation
- Animator
- Basil Davidovich, Ken Harris, Lloyd Vaughan, Ben Washam
Voices
- Voice
- Mel Blanc (Beavers, Beaver Foreman, Baby Hawks)
Music
- Music
- Carl W. Stalling
Crew
- Background Artist
- Robert Gribbroek
- Layout Artist
- Robert Gribbroek
Production notes
In September of 1943, beginning with A Feud There Was, Warner Bros. began re-releasing select color cartoons in their Blue Ribbon program. Typically the Blue Ribbon reissues received new opening sequences with Blue Ribbon title cards and standardized music. Cartoon production credits were also removed. Between ten and fifteen cartoons were released in any given year, with cartoons coming from as far back as 1935. The reissues continued until the close of the studio in the 1960's.
All Blue Ribbon cartoons were released as "Merrie Melodie" cartoons regardless of the original series. The first "Looney Tunes" short to be included in the Blue Ribbon series was The Hep Cat, which was added in 1949. The only current prints of many of these cartoons are the Blue Ribbon releases, although restoration of these cartoons with original elements and titles is always ongoing.
All Blue Ribbon cartoons were released as "Merrie Melodie" cartoons regardless of the original series. The first "Looney Tunes" short to be included in the Blue Ribbon series was The Hep Cat, which was added in 1949. The only current prints of many of these cartoons are the Blue Ribbon releases, although restoration of these cartoons with original elements and titles is always ongoing.
