Elephantastic

Elephantastic is the forty-first animated theatrical short of the Loopy De Loop series. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures on February 6, 1964. It was written by Michael Maltese and was produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the founders of Hanna-Barbera.

Under the company name of Have Peanuts Will Travel, Loopy helps a safari hunter with the delivery of an elephant on a ship to the circus, but Bigelow Mouse perverts the delivery from going through.

Characters

 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Safari hunter
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Don Messick
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Elephant
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Daws Butler
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Bigelow Mouse
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Doug Young
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Loopy De Loop
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Daws Butler
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Doug Young
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Loopy De Loop
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Daws Butler
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Daws Butler

Organizations

 * Have Peanuts Will Travel

Locations

 * Earth
 * United States
 * Docks

Vehicles

 * Ship

Music
The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin.

Crew credits

 * Story sketch: Paul Sommer and Charles A. Nichols
 * Production supervisor: Howard Hanson
 * Animation: Ed Parks and Chuck Harriton
 * Layout: Lance Nolley
 * Backgrounds: Art Lozzi
 * Film editor: Warner Leighton
 * Eastman color by: Pathé

Behind the scenes

 * Michael Maltese is credited as Mike Maltese.

Home availability

 * In the United States:
 * September 9, 2014: Warner Archive Collection releases Loopy De Loop: The Complete Collection on DVD.