Watch Camp Dog Cartoon Pluto Free directed by Charles Nichols, animation by George Kreisl, Marvin Woodward, story by Milt Schaffer, Dick Kinney, music by Paul Smith, cartoon effects by Jack Boyd a 1950 Walt Disney production.
Description
Two coyotes (father and son) smell food. They arrive in a campsite just in time to see the owner (presumably Mickey Mouse) heading downriver in a boat. The food is secured up in a tree, and Pluto, though sleeping, is standing guard. The father sets to work on getting the food down. But junior keeps dragging Pluto out for his dinner. Dad knows that Pluto is nothing but trouble, and keeps putting him back in the tent. They eventually get the food down, between run-ins with Pluto, and are preparing to feast when Pluto runs them off and the owner returns. Pluto realizes that, without the coyotes, he's going to get blamed, and goes off to join his former foes.Watch cartoon
The plotline of the cartoon short is a parody of the story, which is loosely based on the fairy tale The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids by the Brothers Grimm, which is in turn based on Aesop's fable "The Dog and the Sheep".
Reviews
The animation is still brightly coloured and fluidly drawn, very like a vast majority of the Disney cartoons of the 40s-50s. The music always has been a high point with the Disney short films made from the late 20s all the way through to the early 60s, and Camp Dog is no exception. It's still full of lively energy and lush orchestration.
The humour and the gags are what make Camp Dog so good. The gags are imaginative and above all hilarious, especially with Pluto waking up and rushing past Junior into the woods. The ending and the part with Junior actually inside the box where the food is kept as his father is trying to hold onto the rope.
Pluto is still sweet and of immense likability, not coming across as a bland character at all, and his rapport with the coyotes is great. But the coyotes steal the show, the contrasts between father and son are beautifully realised and the back and forth between the two makes for hilarious physical comedy. Overall, a terrific Pluto short
