Monday 12 June 2017

Rube Goldberg in Space

I've never been much on John Dunn's writing or Chuck Jones' Tom and Jerry cartoons, but I kind of like a Rube Goldberg-inspired gag in "O-Solar-Meow" (1966).

It takes place on a space station. Jerry, in some kind of mechanical mouse-mobile, drives over a fuse which sets off a rocket and, well, you can see the rest. The girl cat calendar is pure Jones. The face on the punching bag that feels the pain is a nice touch, too.



Ken Harris, Ben Washam, Tom Ray, Don Towsley and Dick Thompson animated this with Abe Levitow directing.

2 comments:

  1. Very cute, but even then we had seen this sort of thing so many times before.

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  2. I am a fan of these cartoons. Yes, they are gentle, but they look very good and put a smile on my face.

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