
Baby Checkers
- Studio
- Cartoon Films Limited, Boots Chemists
- Distributor
- Monogram Pictures (US)
Synopsis
Gran'pa Monkey and his two grandsons open a babysitting service, where they look after a variety of jungle fauna offspring- including a mischievous baby elephant who drinks up all the milk and accidentally gets glued to a bearskin rug. To keep track of all the wayward cubs, the simian siblings assign a number to each animal child... but later on, the infants switch numbers with one another; so, Gran'pa Monkey ends up returning the wrong child to each parent. Needless to say, the dissatisfied customers take out their vengeance on the three monkeys- at the end of the cartoon- by giving the trio a thorough "scrubbing" in a bassinette!
Characters
Gran' Pop Monkey, The Three Monkeys
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Ub Iwerks
Producing
- Producer
- Ub Iwerks
- Executive Producer
- Paul Fennell
Animation
- Animator
- Ub Iwerks, Lawson Wood
Production notes
Of the many bizarre visual gags in this cartoon, one of them involves a monkey teaching 'deep-breathing exercises' to a baby weasel... who promptly inflates like a balloon!
Excerpts from this European cartoon were (briefly) shown on an episode of "The Beverly Hillbillies" on CBS. (The scene involves Mr. Drysdale [the bank manager] watching said cartoon on a TV in his desk drawer, before he's interrupted by his assistant Miss Hathaway.)
Excerpts from this European cartoon were (briefly) shown on an episode of "The Beverly Hillbillies" on CBS. (The scene involves Mr. Drysdale [the bank manager] watching said cartoon on a TV in his desk drawer, before he's interrupted by his assistant Miss Hathaway.)
