Three consecutive frames as Tom realises the maid is screaming for help, followed by the vibrating tail take.
Multiple cats as he dashes out of the scene.
Ed Barge, Ken Muse, Ray Patterson and Irv Spence are the animators in this short.
Thursday 22 March 2018
Tired Tom
More great expressions on Tom from Old Rockin’ Chair Tom (1948). The maid’s mouse-fearing screams wakes up the cat.
Three consecutive frames as Tom realises the maid is screaming for help, followed by the vibrating tail take.
Multiple cats as he dashes out of the scene.
Ed Barge, Ken Muse, Ray Patterson and Irv Spence are the animators in this short.
Three consecutive frames as Tom realises the maid is screaming for help, followed by the vibrating tail take.
Multiple cats as he dashes out of the scene.
Ed Barge, Ken Muse, Ray Patterson and Irv Spence are the animators in this short.
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This is all Ray Patterson's animation.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if Hanna-Barbera ever missed this kind of animation in their cartoons when they were churning out their made-for-TV stuff, where it was unrealistic to expect any reaction much more outrageous than eyes widening a bit.
ReplyDeleteTom's poses were among the best, especially the way he'd run after Jerry, vibrating after he'd hit an immovable object like the wall just abovve Jerry's mousehole or an obstacle that Jerry would hide behind. This was one of the first theatrical TOM AND JERRY cartoons I recorded from TV onto reel-to-reel tape so I could listen again and again to the Bradley scores which I'd enjoyed ever since seeing the classic MGM cartoons on early morning local TV in the late 1950's.
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