Elephantastic

Elephantastic
Production company	Hanna-Barbera
Distributor	Columbia Pictures
Release date	February 6, 1964
Starring	Daws Butler Don Messick Doug Young
Music composed by	Hoyt Curtin
Screenplay by	Michael Maltese
Director(s)	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
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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

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Safari hunter	Don Messick
Elephant	Daws Butler
Bigelow Mouse	Doug Young
Loopy De Loop	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.