The cartoon is pretty typical fare other than it’s set in a dream world of calico characters and backdrops. The effect is quite interesting.
The girdle/bridge and the river in the frame above are animated. The H-I background artist puts some of the calico hills on overlays because the characters enter or leave scenes in perspective and disappear at times between the hills.
As you can see, Harman and Ising were still legally limited to using two-tone Technicolor.
The imaginative look would appear quite old fashioned within the next few years as Disney pulled almost everyone into a more sophisticated style.
This is one of the cartoons where you can see H&I, with the bigger MGM budgets, starting to try and catch up to Disney, who they had seen pull ahead of them in terms of detail and sophistication between 1930 and 1933, as the limited WB budgets pretty much had them treading water with their LT and MM efforts (of course, keeping up visually with Disney and busting their budgets in the 1934-37 period while not keeping up story-wise is what got Hugh and Rudy canned at MGM).
ReplyDeleteI realize this isn't 3-strip Technicolor, but are there some fading issues here, too? Even for a red and green palette, these look a little washed out.
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