Baby Checkers

Baby Checkers

1940 (estimated) Theatrical Gran' Pop Monkey

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.)