In one scene, the dog uses a marble to test a trap he wants to spring on the vegetable-stealing rodents. He’s staring like he’s not altogether there.
There’s a cut to the trap working, then a cut back to the dog evilly laughing. You’ve got to love the mouth.
Animating this is Emery Hawkins, with Basil Davidovich, Bill Melendez and Don Williams animating other scenes for director Art Davis. The opening scene is great, too, with the dog’s eyes being different shapes and sizes.
This is some of the best Emery Hawkins stuff ever. In my opinion, at least.
ReplyDeletethose are brilliant drawings. Great framegrabs!
ReplyDeleteI suppose if Sheldon Cooper can come from Texas, Mac and Tosh can, too.
ReplyDeleteThe angular lines on the Shakespearean dog that Davis used give him a very 1950s look in some of the scenes (though image No. 3 above actually looks like something Jim Tyer might have done to Dimwit at Terrytoons in an excitable moment...)
I see I wasn't the only one thinking of Dimwit-- those poses look very Tyer-esque!
DeleteE-GAD! What a book!
ReplyDeleteGranted, I think the dog's turn in "A Ham in a Role" was his best, though I like the other ones.
One web site forum on "gay" characters said (justifably) that the gophers were not gay but British. I saw neither, they're mid atlantic - upper class New York, Edward Everret Horton and Franklin Pangborn inpsired, like so many radio/stage/movie actors and singers of that era.:) It has the piano piece used in Friz
ReplyDeletes "Rhapsody Rabbit"(1946) and Art's own "A Hick, A Slick, and a Chick" (1948, shortly after the cartoon discussed), the piano boogie woogie, at the end.SC
The dog is really Dimwit-like...
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