Here’s one in the nonsensical Tom and Jerry debut cartoon “Wot a Night” (1931). I like the gag. A skeleton is bathing and then is shocked two guys are seeing him naked. So he escaped by swirling down the bathtub drain.
Later, the skeleton plays the piano and we get skeletons minueting.
John Foster and George Stallings get the co-direction credit. Gene Rodemich does a nice job with the score, as usual.
Didn't John Foster later become part of the story department at Terrytoons? I swore that I've seen that name before. I have also never watched this cartoon before.
ReplyDeleteHe was at the Aesop's Fables studio when Terry was there. Aesop's Fables became Van Beuren when Terry left. Foster stayed. Later he left and joined Terry at Terrytoons.
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