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The Early Worm Gets the Bird
Title card in the 1952 Blue Ribbon reissue.
Directed byFred Avery
Story byJack Miller
Produced byLeon Schlesinger
StarringMel Blanc
Sara Berner
Margaret Hill-Talbot[1]
Animation byRobert Cannon
Production
company
Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release dates
  • January 13, 1940 (1940-01-13) (original)
  • October 2, 1943 (1943-10-02) (first reissue)
  • November 29, 1952 (1952-11-29) (second reissue)
Running time
8:33
LanguageEnglish

The Early Worm Gets the Bird is a 1940 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon supervised by Tex Avery.[2] The short was released on January 13, 1940.[3] The name is a play on the adage "The early bird gets the worm."

  1. ^ Scott, Keith (3 October 2022). Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2. BearManor Media. p. 78.
  2. ^ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons (1st ed.). New York: H. Holt. p. 98. ISBN 0805008942.
  3. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 104–106. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.

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