
To Beep Or Not To Beep
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., Vitaphone Releases
- Distributor
- Warner Bros.
Synopsis
When he finds a picture of a baked Road Runner while skimming a book of "Western Cookery," Wile E. Coyote licks his chops. Determined to catch and eat the bird, the coyote tries to snare him in a noose. Instead, he falls backward off a cliff. He tries to leap forward, using a large, coiled spring attached to a boulder. The boulder becomes propelled, dragging Wile E. off a cliff. The coyote tries a wrecking ball, but it rolls backward toward the control cab. Then, he tries a catapult, whose purpose is to hurl a boulder at the Road Runner. It manages to crush Wile E., no matter where he stands. On his last try, the catapult stalls, and the coyote cautiously creeps out from his manhole to unjam it. He gets tossed through the air, riding the boulder as it goes through a mountaintop before being bounced back, flattening the coyote like a pancake. It seems that the catapult was built by the "Road Runner Manufacturing Co."
Characters
Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Chuck Jones
- Co-directed By
- Maurice Noble
Producing
- Producer
- David H. DePatie
Writing
- Writer
- John Dunn, Chuck Jones
Animation
- Animator
- Richard Thompson, Bob Bransford, Tom Ray, Ken Harris
- Effects Animation
- Harry Love
Music
- Music
- Bill Lava
Editing
- Editor
- Treg Brown
Crew
- Backgrounds
- Phil De Guard
Production notes
Tidbittius Velocitus vs. Hungrii Flea-Bagius.
Pictures
Reviews
To Beep Or Not To Beep
..also one of the last. The clincher is the superb 'catapult' scene. The music that accompanies it is great, and the way Wile E. Coyote becomes more scared of the contraption (yet still uses it) is hilarious. Nice and bright too. The crane with the demolition ball is wonderfully pathetic, too.



