Always Kickin' (known in full as Hunky and Spunky in Always Kickin') is a 1939 Color Classics cartoon directed by Dave Fleischer and Myron Waldman.
Summary[]
Hunky is teaching her son Spunky how to kick properly. She has him practice with a mattress propped against a tree. Spunky befriends a family of birds who are building a nest. Spunky copies their design and builds a nest of his own. Although he is a donkey, he tries to imitate the birds in flight and falls out of his nest. A vulture kidnaps the baby bird from the nest and Spunky follows them. Spunky uses his newfound kicking abilities to send the vulture packing and return the baby bird to its parents.
Trivia[]
- Although this cartoon was released in January 1939, its copyright year is displayed as MCMXXXVIII (1938), most likely the year it was produced.
- The opening and closing Paramount logos have a different, mostly orange color palette than other cartoons released around the same time.
- Assuming this cartoon was produced in 1938 as its copyright indicates, it is possible the logos were prototype variants.
- Starting with this cartoon, the Color Classics title card is updated to read "Paramount presents" instead of "Adolph Zukor presents".
