Friday 28 December 2012

It's a Cuckoo

Tex Avery’s anonymous cat discovers the cuckoo he wants to kill is sitting atop his golf club in “The Cuckoo Clock” (released 1950). These are consecutive drawings; the first five are on single frames, the next two are on twos.



Mike Lah, Grant Simmons and Walt Clinton are the only credited animators.

4 comments:

  1. Tex actually seemed a little more interested in the first third of this cartoon than the final two-thirds -- still some good gags and animation, but overall a fairly routine two-character short. However, Avery would expand on the opening sequence here a year later, and take advantage of the situation to do some UPA experimentation for "Symphony In Slang".

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  2. Did Daws Butler voice the cat?

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  3. Yes, Daws is the cat/narrator.

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  4. Is this viewable on YouTube anywhere?

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