![]() Dragged by the collar, Buddy is, unceremoniously but obligingly, ejected from the store: "Okey-dokey!" he calls back. Buddy awakens, and it turns that his new adversary is none other than his boss, who has returned to her shop. Then, another Amazon emerges from the same well, shaking Buddy from behind. One Amazon finds herself trapped in what may be a laundry chute, and several others are knocked clear into the sky by a water vessel spinning atop a well. Our Hero runs about, avoiding swords, and causing the warrior-women to chase him. Legionnaire Buddy, having found the fortress, steps through the same threshold, but the Amazon's fist misses him, as he is quite a bit shorter than the other soldiers. The Amazon simply removes his glasses, and then lands her blow. One legionnaire, wearing spectacles, indicates his proclivity. As each man enters, the Amazon leader knocks him aside. The soldiers, in their trance, are brought into the Amazon fortress. Realizing that his men are gone, Buddy runs off into the distance. Buddy faces about, ordering the company to halt. The genie travels, by magic carpet, into the path of the Legion.ĭancing seductively, the genie eventually manages to turn the heads of all the soldiers, save trumpeter Buddy all are led away to their enslavement. The leader calls for an attractive genie woman. One Amazon, looking through a spy-glass, sees the legionnaires, and announces their coming to the leader. One pushes a quern-stone and one washes laundry with water provided by a wheel turned by the efforts of a third man, who, for his lazy walking, is prodded by a projectile emitted by the hookah of the Amazon leader. Within, large women force smaller, captive Legion soldiers to do chores. Our Hero is now the leader of a detachment of the Legion, marching through the desert, singing "Arabia." After the musical number, we come to a fortress controlled by Amazons (as the flag above the building makes clear). One of the books, now open to him, tells of life in the Foreign Legion, and Buddy becomes so engrossed in reading that he forgets the tasks assigned him and sits down at a desk, where he daydreams about Amazons, such as the book describes. No sooner has the boss lady left than Buddy is attempting to fit in his grasp about a dozen books at once! A fly causes Buddy to lose his balance, crash into a stove, and drop every volume. ![]() ![]() His boss, leaving, orders him to watch the store while she is away and to put away all of the books left on the table. Getting right to work, Buddy dusts everything he sees. The woman, after a brief inspection of the candidate, hires Buddy to dust the store. ![]() Clearing his throat, Our Hero makes himself and his intentions known to the woman. Taking the sign, he strolls in to find the proprietor of the shop, a matronly lady, busily invested in her work and inattentive of the young man's presence. The short Buddy of the Legion was first shown at the State Theatre in Winona, Minnesota.īuddy whistles merrily along a sidewalk, quickly coming to a bookstore with a sign reading "Boy wanted" in the window. Notably, this is Chuck Jones's first credit as animator on a Warner Bros. It was directed by Ben Hardaway Bernard Brown was musical director. It is a Looney Tunes cartoon, featuring Buddy, the second star of the series. Buddy of the Legion is an American animated short film, released April 6, 1935.
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