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How to Trap a Woodpecker

1971-06-18 · 6 min · ★ 8.7

Animation · Comedy

George the woodsman's wife, fed up with life in the wilderness, shows him an ad for an expensive fancy hat. She then kicks him out of his log cabin and sends him on a quest to trap Woody Woodpecker and obtain his feathers to make such a hat.

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Paul J. Smith
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Walter Lantz Productions, Universal Pictures
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United States of America
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