Tuesday 4 December 2018

I Like Rubber Hose

A fine example of rubber hose animation can be found in the Warner Bros. cartoon I Like Mountain Music (1933). Yeah, it’s got the usual Harman-Ising formula, but there’s a great spaghetti arm/leg yodeller who joins in one of the innumerable choruses of the title song.



He jumps into the next scene to join a very non rubber-hosed flapper for more of the song.



Cycles, re-used animation, celebrity caricatures for no reason, bad impressions (the Edward G. Robinson isn’t close), the good guys ganging up on the bad guys in the second half; it’s all here. Friz Freleng and Larry Martin are the credited animators.
at

1 comment:

  1. rnigma5 December 2018 at 12:09

    First saw it on "Matinee at the Bijou" where it was re-titled "Magazine Rack" (probably a Gutlohn print). I remember the big-legged Sonja Henie caricature skating on a mirror.

    ReplyDelete