Friday, 20 February 2015

There's Three of Everything

Ub Iwerks loved everything rounded in the backgrounds of his cartoons, even in his supposedly more realistic ComiColor fairy tales. Here are some examples from a washed out print of “The Three Bears” (1935) from one of those public domain DVDs.

The big gag in the first half of this cartoon is there are three of everything in varying sizes. Bugs Hardaway was writing for Iwerks then, wasn’t he?



How can you tell this is an Iwerks short? Radiating lines over someone’s head.



Animators were not credited on the ComiColors. Carl Stalling’s original score gets a mention.
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  1. top_cat_james20 February 2015 at 20:03

    Coincidentally enough, The Simpsons parodied this very cartoon last month in one of their couch gags ( and, yep, they included the "radiating lines"). Unfortunately, I am unable to locate a video clip online, but here is an image from the bit.

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    1. top_cat_james21 February 2015 at 13:08

      For those interested, I just noticed this episode re-airs tomorrow night (Sunday, 2/22) - "Bart's New Friend" 7:30/6:30 PM Eastern/Central.

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