There are a few neat gags in Goons From the Moon (1950), like when Mighty Mouse (in song) urges the animator to hurry up and draw him so he can save the day. I like this scene that’s a throwback to the early ‘30s, when inanimate objects came to life. The mouse spots the asteroid or whatever it is the cats are on as it approaches Earth. The through-the-telescope take is pretty standard issue, but I like how the telescope jumps and runs away in fear.
Who animated the scene? Beats me. Terrytoons never credited animators until Gene Deitch arrived several years later.
"hurry up....I have a Job TOOOOOOOOO doooooooooo!!!"
ReplyDeleteTerrytown was also probably a very NYC area-centric pun on the village of Tarrytown, which is on the other side of Westchester County from the studio's hometown of New Rochelle.
ReplyDeleteThis scene was excerpted in CBS' 1987-88 Saturday morning Mighty Mouse 'reboot' exec produced by Ralph Bakshi. Because of the high budgets, several episodes had characters watching cartoons in theaters- which, naturally were old Terrytoons.
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