Incidentally, here’s the plane flying over Johnny Johnsen’s version of mid-1940s Los Angeles.
Walt Clinton, Ed Love, Preston Blair and Ray Abrams animated “Northwest Hounded Police” for Tex Avery.
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Pilot to Co-Pilot: Boo!
The wolf (Frank Graham) tries to escape from Sergeant McPoodle (voice actor unknown) in an airplane. Nope, Droopy has followed him there, too.
Incidentally, here’s the plane flying over Johnny Johnsen’s version of mid-1940s Los Angeles.
Walt Clinton, Ed Love, Preston Blair and Ray Abrams animated “Northwest Hounded Police” for Tex Avery.
Incidentally, here’s the plane flying over Johnny Johnsen’s version of mid-1940s Los Angeles.
Walt Clinton, Ed Love, Preston Blair and Ray Abrams animated “Northwest Hounded Police” for Tex Avery.
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i used to luv luv LOVE when CBS would air this on the 60s T&J show!!! We, as youngsters, knew it was a rare (& SPECIAL) Treat!!!
ReplyDeleteMethinks this is Avery voicing Droopy here; Bill Thompson had been drafted and was sorely missed here and concurrent FIBBER MCGEE AND MOLLY episodes.
ReplyDeleteHe seems to be the most likely candidate (I'm pretty sure it's Avery at the end of Deputy Droopy as well).
DeleteFor readers who don't know, Thompson was in Chicago for the duration and his only work was when the Fibber crew visited the area to entertain troops. He did no cartoons until he returned to California.
This looks like Ray Abrams' animation, Yowp. Don't forget to post stills from the "gimme a new face" plastic surgery scene, in my opinion the funniest Avery "take" of them all.
ReplyDeletePosts are banked on the blog until the end of February, Mark. But I'm sure I can fit it into our weekly Avery posts.
DeleteIs Wolf sitting on his parachute, or is that one of those vests with the attachable hemorrhoid pillow that were so popular in the mid-1940s?
ReplyDeleteGenerally, that was the way parachutes were slung on USAAF pilots during the war, if you look at contemporary pictures. It would have been problematic to wear them like a backpack, as you often see them depicted (see, e.g., 1941's Rookie Revue).
DeleteWhen did Don Messick start pinch-hitting for Thompson as Droopy?
ReplyDeleteSome time in the '50s. I don't think Messick did many cartoons as Droopy; I can only think of one where the voice sounds a bit like Messick's. (It seems his work on House of Tomorrow was inserted in the cartoon's re-release and wasn't on the original soundtrack).
DeleteHe didn't arrive in Los Angeles until 1946. His first work on radio was on the Raggedy Ann show.