What if StudioCanal is founded in 1937?/Carlstoons/Red Dot and Crazy Question Mark/Dog Gone (1939 film)

Dog Gone is a 1939 American one-reel animated short subject featuring Red Dot and Crazy Question Mark, the two title characters from the Carlstoons series. It was directed by Ub Iwerks and produced by Stanley Carls. It was released in theatres on March 17, 1939. The cartoon is the eighth to last in the characters' long-running film series.

Plot
Red Dot has been selected to judge a dog show. As a scheme, he tells Crazy Question Mark to participate, assuring the latter will come out the victor.

Later when the dog show is about to begin, Question Mark puts on a dog suit before entering. At the contest, Red observes the other dogs. Red then approaches Question Mark whom he momentarily declares the winner. This provoked great envy from the other dogs as they chase Question Mark out of the scene. Red also runs to save his buddy.

Moments after being pursued, Question Mark manages to lure the dogs into the container of a horse-drawn carriage. While he tries to get away, the carriage's driver catches and tosses him inside too.

The carriage arrives at a sausage plant. The driver then inserts the dogs through an opening on the plant's wall where they slide into a machine which turns them into sausages. Not wanting to share their fate, Question Mark tries his best to avoid dropping in.

After some trouble with a broom-wielding worker, Question Mark partially falls into the machine. Fortunately, he is able to get off, and only his dog suit gets devoured. Meanwhile, Red eventually finds and enters the carriage. As a consequence, the driver, thinking there is one more dog left, obliviously passes Red into the machine. Red somehow gets stuck midway with legs sticking out. Jeff then pulls out his buddy, until they drop through the opening. When they are outside, Question Mark notices Red's disfigured body, and laughs. Annoyed by this, Red pounds and knocks out Question Mark.

Voice cast

 * Pinto Colvig as Red Dot
 * Billy Bletcher as Crazy Question Mark
 * Mel Blanc as The Dog

Credits

 * Stanley Carls Productions
 * Stanley Carls presents
 * Carlstoons
 * in Technicolor
 * Released by Republic Pictures Corp.
 * Copyright MCMXXXIX Stanley Carls Productions, Inc. · All Rights Reserved
 * Red Dot and Crazy Question Mark in...
 * "Dog Gone"
 * Story: Ub Iwerks
 * Animation: Don Towsley, Shamus Culhane, Al Eugster, Ugo D'Orsi, George Rowley
 * Character Design: Don Towlsey
 * Layout: Dave Tendlar
 * Backgrounds: Carlos Manriquez
 * Special Effects: Ub Iwerks, Josh Meador
 * Music: Oliver Wallace
 * Camera: Mickey Batchelder
 * Editing and Sound: Fred MacAlpin
 * Approved MPPDA Certificate No. 5365
 * This Picture Made Under the Jurisdiction of I.A.T.S.E.-IA, Affiliated with American Federation of Labor
 * Cartoonists
 * RCA Sound Recording
 * Directed by: Ub Iwerks
 * THE END
 * A Stanley Carls Production
 * Made in Hollywood, U.S.A.