Trick or Treat

[Gerd Syllwasschy]

Frank:

> I'm not quite sure, however, about the scene with the goat. The goat is 
> not in my copy of the short, although the goat's hair definitely is. 
> Moreover, there's also an "unnatural" looking cut right before one of 
> the nephews hands Hazel the hairs. So I guess the gag with the goat was 
> edited out from my TV sourced version of the film. Maybe somebody else 
> can confirm that this gag is in the film, i.e. it wasn't Barks' own idea 
> for the comic version?

My DVD version (length 7'56 at 25 fps, ca. 7'10 without credits) does 
not contain the goat scene, either.

However, there is one caveat when comparing the comic with the film: 
Barks submitted the finished comic in March 1952, whereas the cartoon 
was not released until October of the same year. He worked from 
photostats of the storyboard drawings, and it is quite likely that some 
changes were applied to the animation later.

So, if a scene from the comic does not appear in the movie, this does 
not necessarily mean that it was Barks' own idea.

Gerd