Down the cue is plunged. Skyward goes Tom in pain. Here are some random frames. Even the in-betweens at MGM are pretty expressive.
The bite-lip/face-turns-red bit was also used the same year in Casanova Cat.
Irv Spence, Ken Muse, Ed Barge and Ray Patterson are, as usual, your animators in this cartoon.
This is all Ken Muse animation, but Tom's red face sort of echoes Ray Patterson.
ReplyDeleteI always loved Bill Hanna's screams when Tom got hurt. I read somewhere that he recorded a scream, and then the sound editor made it funnier by chopping off the very beginning and end of it.
ReplyDeleteI thought Hanna mentioned the voice in his autobiography. Someone told me they once asked Hanna to replicate it and he happily obliged.
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