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The Legend of Rockabye Point is a 1955 Chilly Willy short directed by Tex Avery. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Animated Short Film, but lost to the Warner Bros. short Speedy Gonzales.

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An old sailor tells the legend of a starving polar bear (Charlie) who attempted to steal food but kept running into a vicious guard dog. To placate the beast, the bear must sing "Rock-A-Bye Baby" to him to make him nod off. Unfortunately the dog wakes quickly at the slightest noise, and is cranky. The dog eventually chases the bear up a tall mountain. At the end of the picture the sailor says if you listen carefully you can to this day still hear the lullaby at night. Indeed, at the peak the pair stand—both very old and grey now—with the bear holding the dog tenderly and singing "Rock-A-Bye Baby".

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  • Chilly Willy's last short directed by Tex Avery. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
  • Though billed as "A Chilly Willy Cartoon", the perpetually-cold penguin is only briefly seen.
  • The cartoon was shown on both The Woody Woodpecker Show and The New Woody Woodpecker Show, where it was renamed "A Chilly Classic Cartoon".
    • In 2021, an official Woody Woodpecker YouTube channel finally uploaded on the same site.[1]
  • This cartoon is somewhat similar to "Rock-a-Bye Bear" a previous 1952 cartoon directed by Avery at MGM.

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