The Shell Shocked Egg

The Shell Shocked Egg
Merrie Melodies series
Directed by	Robert McKimson
Produced by	Eddie Selzer (uncredited)
Story by	Warren Foster
Voices by	Mel Blanc
Music by	Carl Stalling, Milt Franklyn (uncredited)
Animation by	Izzy Ellis, Charles McKimson, Manny Gould
Layouts by	Cornett Wood
Backgrounds by	Richard H. Thomas
Studio	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date(s)	July 10, 1948
Color process	Technicolor
Running time	6:45 (Blue Ribbon release)
Language	English

The Shell Shocked Egg is a cartoon directed by Robert McKimson. Released to theaters on July 10, 1948, this film has a turtle named Clem who hatches partially and wanders around the area.

Trivia

• The turtles look like Cecil Turtle but aren't the same character.
• This film has not been released on DVD so the dubbed version exists for now.
• This is the final Merrie Melodies to be sold to United Artists, successor to Associated Artists Productions because a.a.p. went defunct a year after buying WB's pre-1944 color cartoons and Selzer's September 2, 1944 – July 24, 1948 cartoons and pre-1950 films. The remaining black and white catalog was sold to Sunset Productions, later Warner Bros.-Seven Arts giving WB rights back to the black and white films.
• The latest released film sold to a.a.p. was Haredevil Hare released on July 24, 1948. This is the second latest released film sold to a.a.p.
• The story is similar in concept to the Looney Tunes cartoon Booby Hatched (1944) directed by Frank Tashlin, where both cartoons feature a prematurely-hatched offspring wanting to get out of their eggshells.

Availability

• This film was included on the laserdisc set The Golden Age of Looney Tunes.