“Scrambled Eggs” (1939), produced by Walter Lantz for release by Universal Pictures, is a nine-minute Technicolor cartoon about a mischievous supernatural forest character named Peterkin who is drawn as a boy satyr (human form with pointed ears, tail and goat legs) who plays a flute and causes mischief in the forest. When the birds tell […]
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