I Wish I Had Wings

I Wish I Had Wings is a 1932 Merrie Melodies short directed by Rudolf Ising.
== Plot ==
It's morning on a farm, and a rooster awakens the chickens and the geese. The chicks run from a bigger hen, leaving her behind. She grabs a worm and divides it for the kids to eat. Soon after a chick has a fight with a worm. The father rooster arrives with Doctor Stork, who comes out with a basket full of white chicks and one black chick. The black chick is quickly forgotten, and sings "I Wish I Had Wings". Using a pair of discarded girdles as wings, and bloomers as a parachute he prepares to get a meal, until he runs into a scarecrow, but he's able to ward that off.
== Availability ==
Golden-Age-of-Looney-Tunes-5-F.jpg|(1997) LaserDisc The Golden Age of Looney Tunes: Volume 5, Side 1, Black and White Classics (USA 1995 Turner print)
TarzanBluRay.jpg|(2023) Blu-ray Tarzan the Ape Man (restored)
=== Streaming ===
lt hbo max.jpg|HBO Max (2020 - 2023) (restored)
lt max.jpg|Max (2023 - ) (restored)
== Notes ==
* The animation of the chicken laying on her eggs and knitting while humming "Rock-a-Bye-Baby" was reused three years later and rotoscoped for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon short "The Lost Chick" (1935).Reused image
* The HBO Max restoration's audio is sourced from the 1995 Turner foreign music-and-effects track instead of the original English track. As a result, most of the voices are muted.
* This cartoon entered the public domain in 1961 as United Artists did not renew the copyright in time.
== Gallery ==
Wish-I-had-wings-680.jpg|Lobby card
IWishIHadWingsRESTORED.jpeg|Cropped screenshot of 2020 restoration
== References ==
 
Category:1932
Category:Merrie Melodies Shorts
Category:Shorts
Category:Black-and-white cartoons
Category:Cartoons directed by Rudolf Ising
Category:Cartoons animated by Rollin Hamilton
Category:Cartoons with music by Frank Marsales
Category:Cartoons produced by Leon Schlesinger
Category:Cartoons produced by Hugh Harman
Category:Cartoons produced by Rudolf Ising
Category:Cartoons in a.a.p. package
Category:Public domain films
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Bernard B. Brown
Category:One-Shot Cartoons
Category:Chickens