Tuesday, 29 August 2017

A Star is Hatched Smear Drawings

Bobe Cannon was noted for his stretch in-betweens in the Chuck Jones unit at Warner Bros. in the early ‘40s, but here are some from the 1938 Friz Freleng cartoon A Star is Hatched.

The fifth drawing is held for two frames, the rest are all single frames.



Bob McKimson gets the animation credit on this cartoon, but I doubt McKimson is responsible for these in-betweens.

Tedd Pierce plays director J. Megga Phone (“Bei Mir Bistu Shein” plays in the background during this scene). Elvia Allman is impersonating Kate Hepburn as Emily the star-struck chicken.
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4 comments:

  1. Steven Hartley29 August 2017 at 13:59

    I think a lot of the "smear" animation that crops up in the late 30s Freleng/Tashlin (even the earliest Jones shorts), are the work of Ken Harris! A lot of the smear animation seen in Devon Baxter's post of the "Night Watchman" draft is attributed to him.

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  2. Kamden Spies29 August 2017 at 17:51

    That cartoon starred Emily the Chicken. She was later an inspiration for Miss Prissy. All of the cartoons with her basically had the same premise

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  3. EOCostello30 August 2017 at 05:31

    I wonder if his glasses are a sly dig at Technicolor...

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    1. Yowp30 August 2017 at 12:51

      I think so. They're the right colours, aren't they?

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