tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post7297106041029037990..comments2024-03-28T11:45:24.378-07:00Comments on Tralfaz: Smokers, Stooges and CroonersYowphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-73749030576149837692021-04-15T14:39:16.472-07:002021-04-15T14:39:16.472-07:00Harris was actually already an animator, but only ...Harris was actually already an animator, but only for the Freleng unit.Doodledhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05318149883684705869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-59010155872219257652016-06-18T08:06:29.499-07:002016-06-18T08:06:29.499-07:00We still had a black and white set when the Korean...We still had a black and white set when the Koreans aired locally so it wouldn't have made a lot of difference, other than the cartoon would have been jerky.Yowphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-86826902157763222232016-06-18T07:42:16.831-07:002016-06-18T07:42:16.831-07:00The retraced version of this cartoon is hilarious....The retraced version of this cartoon is hilarious. All of the black characters are colored red!Blog of the Decimatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05431436692142768190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-27286942993660122142016-03-26T23:22:58.434-07:002016-03-26T23:22:58.434-07:00And George Manuell's named was abbreivated to ...And George Manuell's named was abbreivated to Geo.Manuell, Robert Bentley's likewise Robt.Bentley. If I'm right, Billy Bletcher's Nick O'Teen and I do know Tedd Pierce does the voice of "Porky's Mamma".<br /><br />Nice "serendipitous" stumbling of Porky through his blurred vision into the tobacco shop and use of the nightmare plot device that follows as shown in Yowp's screen caps.Steve.Pokeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15936757752447320636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-3426812375587559162016-03-25T12:00:04.492-07:002016-03-25T12:00:04.492-07:00Those Stooge caricatures look almost like Shankman...Those Stooge caricatures look almost like Shankman's work three years later in "Hollywood Steps Out" (1941).Jonathan Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12233850225669612698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-80732206790614754082016-03-25T11:39:31.434-07:002016-03-25T11:39:31.434-07:00Some great camera angles and montages in WHOLLY SM...Some great camera angles and montages in WHOLLY SMOKE, but not a real laugh-getter compared to other films Tashlin was making at the time.Barthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08980019238762304930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-16249881698003697912016-03-25T08:58:16.072-07:002016-03-25T08:58:16.072-07:00The themes here are similar to Disney's "...The themes here are similar to Disney's "Donald's Better Self", released only a few months earlier. But Tashlin's effort is more focused on the activity of smoking itself and not on the good/evil choices for the main character. It also has a surprisingly non-cynical ending compared to either the Disney short or even Frank's earlier "Now The Summer Is Gone", where the child-aged main character is put through the wringer on gambling, but learns nothing before getting the hand dropped on him at iris out.<br /><br /> ("Wholly Smoke" might actually be the most all-time acceptable storyline for those types that decry Warners' shorts as 'mindless cartoon violence' and prefer stories that teach kids valuable moral lessons, except that the Cab Calloway and the lighted matchstick gags have been edited by various censors in some areas at least since the 1970s.) J Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15175515543694122729noreply@blogger.com