" . . . They just fade away," this expose of waste in U. S. military procurement states, somewhat inaccurately. Aviation "bone-yards" dot the American Southwest, chock full of everything from most of the original squadrons the Pentagon ordered from the Wright Brothers to a saucer for every cupcake in Area 51. LITTLE JOHNNY JET's forebears have one foot in the desert by the time this story begins, and its outcome seems likely to do little to delay their inevitable descent into the Way of All Flight.
Little Johnny Jet
1953
Animation / Comedy / Family
Little Johnny Jet
1953
Animation / Comedy / Family
Plot summary
A veteran B-29 propeller plane, struggling to find work after the war, is upset after his wife gives birth to a little jet. When he tries to compete with modern planes in an around-the-world race, Junior comes to his aid. This short is virtually identical in plot terms and other items to One Cab's Family (1952), but this time around, it concerns a family of aeroplanes, and the problems Mom and Pop have with Junior, whose obsession with speed leads him to acquire a jet engine.
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"Old planes never fly . . .
Fairly Ordinary Tex Avery
There are a few bright spots here but to anthropomorphize some airplanes is pretty easy pickings. The plot involves a WWII bomber who uses propellers and is now termed obsolete. When he has a son, it is a speedy jet. This is what is putting dad on the scrap heap, until a race comes along.
The best of Tex Avery's cartoons giving human characteristics to inanimate objects
This cartoon was nominated for an Oscar, which is welcome although a bit puzzling, as this is a prototypical Tex Avery cartoon-take something ordinary, twist it in some odd or extraordinary way and fire sight gags at the audience for the bulk of the cartoon. Avery often gave inanimate objects human traits, as he does here and this is a marvelous cartoon, but he did at least a dozen that were as good or better that weren't nominated. Which proves that the Academy Awards process is as much chance as anything else. This shows on Cartoon Network often. Recommended