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The Screwy Truant

1945 film by Tex Avery
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Summary

The Screwy Truant is an animated short film[1]. It draws 156 Wikipedia views per month (animated short film category, ranking #180 of 1,467).[2]

Key Facts

  • Director: Tex Avery[3]
  • Screenwriter: Henry Wilson Allen[4]
  • Composer: Scott Bradley[5]
  • Producer: Fred Quimby[6]
  • Part of the series: Screwy Squirrel[7]
  • Production company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer[8]
  • Original language of film or TV show: English[9]
  • Distribution format: theatrical release[10]
  • Color: color[11]
  • Country of origin: United States[12]
  • Publication date: January 13, 1945[13]
  • Voice actor: Wally Maher[14], Tex Avery[15]
  • Distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer[16]
  • Title: The Screwy Truant[17]
  • Duration: 7 minutes[18]
  • Fabrication method: traditional animation[19]
  • Animator: Preston Blair[20], Ed Love[21], Ray Abrams[22]
  • P14449: 250142[23]

Why It Matters

The Screwy Truant is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . The Big Cartoon DataBase. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . The Big Cartoon DataBase. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . The Big Cartoon DataBase. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . The Big Cartoon DataBase. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . The Big Cartoon DataBase. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . The Big Cartoon DataBase. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . The Big Cartoon DataBase. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . The Big Cartoon DataBase. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . The Big Cartoon DataBase. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . IMDb. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . The Big Cartoon DataBase. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . The Big Cartoon DataBase. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . The Big Cartoon DataBase. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 11d ago · Trivialist · 2026-10-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 3
    Wikipedia languages → ['en', 'ru']
    Tv tropes id → WesternAnimation/TheScrewyTruant
    Claims rich → —
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  2. 16w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Fabrication method → traditional animation
    Wikidata description → 1945 film by Tex Avery
    Trakt.tv film id → 65580
    P14449 → 250142
    + 35 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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