The Legend of Rockabye Point
| The Legend of Rockabye Point | |
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| Directed by | Tex Avery |
| Story by | Michael Maltese |
| Produced by | Walter Lantz |
| Starring | Dal McKennon Tex Avery (both uncredited) |
| Music by | Clarence Wheeler |
| Animation by | Ray Abrams Don Patterson Laverne Harding |
| Layouts by | Tex Avery (uncredited) |
| Backgrounds by | Raymond Jacobs |
| Color process | Technicolor |
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 6 minutes |
| Language | English |
The Legend of Rockabye Point is a 1955 Chilly Willy cartoon directed by Tex Avery. It was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and was released on April 11, 1955. The cartoon was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in the same year, but would lose to the Merrie Melodies short Speedy Gonzales.
This is also the second (and last) Chilly Willy cartoon directed by Avery. The plot of the cartoon resembles an earlier cartoon Avery directed, that being the 1952 short Rock-a-Bye Bear for MGM. Charlie the Polarbear would also serve as a precursor to the character Maxie the Polarbear, who would first appear in the short Polar Fright eleven years later.