" . . . 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
6.9Plot summary
Mary and John are a married couple of airplanes. John, however, is an out-of-work B-29 bomber, but he is trying desperately to find work, especially when it is discovered they are going to have a baby. John tries to get back in the Air Force, but they are only accepting jet planes now; something he despises, and something, he would soon discover, that his newborn son is. After reading about an around-the-world race among modern aircraft where the winner will receive a major government contract, John goes there determined to enter and show them up. Mary chases after him with Junior to try to talk him out of it. As she tries unsuccessfully to do so, Junior sneaks into his father for the ride, and by the time she realizes what he has done, it's too late. When the race commences, the other planes are gone before John can even start taxiing down the runway. Eventually his props have had enough and detach from his body, leaving him spiraling toward certain death. Junior manages to escape from him to save him and eventually lead him to victory. However, it is Junior the Air Force wants....and about a thousand more just like him.
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Top cast
June Foray as Mary
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English 2.0
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"Old planes never fly . . .
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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
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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.