''Gallopin' Gals'' is a 1940 American one-reel

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animated film Animation is a filmmaking technique whereby still images are manipulated to create moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Animati ...

directed by

William Hanna William Denby Hanna (July 14, 1910 – March 22, 2001) was an American animator, voice actor, and musician who is best known for co-creating ''Tom and Jerry'' and providing the vocal effects for the series' title characters. Alongside Joseph B ...

and

Joseph Barbera Joseph Roland Barbera ( ; ; March 24, 1911 – December 18, 2006) was an American animator and cartoonist, best known as the co-founder of the animation studio Hanna-Barbera. Born to Italian Americans, Italian immigrants in New York City, Bar ...

and produced by Fred Quimby. It belonged to the

screwball comedy Screwball comedy is a film subgenre of the romantic comedy genre that became popular during the Great Depression, beginning in the early 1930s and thriving until the early 1950s, that satirizes the traditional love story. It has secondary charact ...

genre. It was released by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer in October 26, 1940, alongside the feature film '' Hullabaloo''. The announcer at the race was played by Truman Bradley.

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The film is a typical animated

made in the style of such films as '' The Women'' (1939), except for the fact that the characters are fillies at the

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with New York accents, gossiping about some of the other contestants. The underdog of the story is a shy, lonely horse named Maggie who has never won a race in her life and suffers from

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. During the race, the other horses competing are distracted by a

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. They fall short of the finish line, in second place simultaneously, while the picture is taken. Maggie crosses in front of them, winning the race.

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* 1940 films 1940 comedy films 1940s American animated films 1940s screwball comedy films Short films directed by Joseph Barbera Short films directed by William Hanna Films set in Kentucky American horse racing films Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animated short films Animated films about horses Films scored by Scott Bradley Films with screenplays by Henry Wilson Allen Films produced by Fred Quimby Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio short films 1940s English-language films English-language short films 1940 animated short films {{short-animation-film-stub

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