The Australian Platypus

1949
8m

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We meet the duck-billed platypus, and see it romance a female platypus. When the male mistakes a duck for the female, she gets haughty and stalks off; he swims after her, and appears to be i... Read allWe meet the duck-billed platypus, and see it romance a female platypus. When the male mistakes a duck for the female, she gets haughty and stalks off; he swims after her, and appears to be in peril. They kiss and make up underwater, and fall madly in love.We meet the duck-billed platypus, and see it romance a female platypus. When the male mistakes a duck for the female, she gets haughty and stalks off; he swims after her, and appears to be in peril. They kiss and make up underwater, and fall madly in love.

Director
- Bert Felstead
Writers
- Ralph Wright
- Reg Parlett

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6.0/10

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Director
- Bert Felstead
Writers
- Ralph Wright
- Reg Parlett

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No Duck-Billed Platitudes for Me

Even Ogden Nash couldn't get much of a comic poem out of the Duck-Billed Platypus. Given that, it is hardly surprising that this entry in David Hand's short-lived "Animaland" series for British Gaumont is good but not great.

The artwork is impeccable in the candybox style that was already gone from American animation and there is a small female chorus that sings a romantic little song that ends the courtship of two shy young platypuses -- platypii? Platypodes? OK, a young boy platypus and a young girl platypus -- in an intensely anthropomorphic fashion that is at odds with the realistic illustrations. However, I do like the comic relief of the kookaburras and the ending joke is decent.