Hypnotic Hick

Hypnotic Hick
Directed by	Don PattersonWilliam E. Garity
Produced by	Walter Lantz
Animation by	Ken Southworth Ray Abrams Raymond Jacobs Art Landy Laverne Harding Robert Bentley Herman Cohen Gil Turner
Color process	Technicolor
Production company	Walter Lantz Productions
Distributed by	Universal International

Hypnotic Hick is the 50th animated cartoon short subject in the Woody Woodpecker series. Released theatrically on August 26, 1953, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal International.

Notes

• Hypnotic Hick was the one and only Woody Woodpecker entry released in 3-D, as an attempt to cash in the stereoscopic craze started with the film Bwana Devil.
• This film introduced a new rendition of the famed "Woody Woodpecker Song," which first appeared in the 1948 film Wet Blanket Policy. This version, featuring a prominent trumpet and piano riff, would be used regularly until the 1960s. Hypnotic Hick was also the first time Woody began speaking more regularly. The woodpecker had become virtually silent since Grace Stafford starting voicing the character in 1950.

References

• Cooke, Jon, Komorowski, Thad, Shakarian, Pietro, and Tatay, Jack. "1953". The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia.