Underplayed Gems

Chicken in the Rough (1951)

Chicken in the Rough poster
Directed by
Jack Hannah
Genre
animation, family
Country
United States
Runtime
7 min
Rated
NR
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 24 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Chip and Dale wander into a farmyard looking for acorns. Dale mistakes an egg for a nut and gets into a funny situation with a rooster and a newborn chick.

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What happens

Chicken in the Rough is a 1951 animated short starring Chip 'n' Dale. It is Chip 'n' Dale's first solo cartoon together, and the footage is reused from the Silly Symphony short, Farmyard Symphony (1938). In the short film, Chip 'n' Dale wander into a farmyard to collect acorns. Dale mistakes an egg for a nut, but when he tries to demonstrate to a newly hatched chick how to get back into the egg, a rooster mistakes him for one of his chicks, much to Chip's amusement. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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