Thursday 2 April 2015

An Old Bag

Screwy Squirrel’s reaction when the rich, wart-faced dowager wants to buy him from a pet shop for Lonesome Lenny.



Reality.



The truth.



Ray Abrams, Preston Blair, Walt Clinton and Ed Love animate Screwy’s farewell performance.

2 comments:

  1. For some reason, before Ted Turner acquired the MGM library, the pre-47 MGM cartoon library they had included this cartoon, but minus this scene -- it simply started with the shot of the mansion before the fade to Lenny in his room (the cut was obvious, but I was assuming it was due to some sort of blackface gag, and was surprised when the offending part turned out to be against rich-but-ugly dowagers).

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  2. "He don't work no more".

    Screwball Squirrel was my number one favorite cartoon character from the pre-tv era.
    o character -Bugs included-epitomized cartoon mayhem like him, before or since.

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