Studio: Walter Lantz Productions
Short Plot Synopsis
Billion Dollar Boner is part of the wide 1958-1967 animation landscape, when theatrical shorts, television episodes, features, sponsored films, and international festival works all overlapped.
The film's importance is contextual as much as individual. It keeps a studio, national tradition, character line, or production mode visible inside a decade of rapid change.
Why Is It Worth Watching?
- It shows the Woody Woodpecker series leaning into compact, gag-driven late-era theatrical cartooning under Walter Lantz.
- It captures a decade when theatrical shorts were fading while television, international features, and modernist shorts were taking up more space.
- It helps the book connect celebrated landmarks to the surrounding work that made the era legible.
Legacy And Impact
Billion Dollar Boner earns its place by showing that animation history is made from many kinds of works, not only the famous features and award winners.
In this book, Billion Dollar Boner works as a period marker: it shows how style, format, budget, and audience habits were being renegotiated between 1958 and 1967.
That makes the entry useful not just as a title to remember, but as evidence of how animation was finding new rooms, schedules, and audiences.
Trivia
- Billion Dollar Boner has a specific production footprint in the list, linking its year, format, and national context to animation history.
