This is from the cartoon Safety Second. It’s a July 4th cartoon that was appropriately released July 1, 1950. It was inappropriately re-released May 3, 1957.
Al Grandmain gets a credit on this short, perhaps for the fireworks effects. Ray Patterson, Ed Barge, Ken Muse and Irv Spence also animated. Is this a Spence scene?
This is indeed an Irv Spence scene.
ReplyDeleteThe gag originates from seven years earlier, in "Mouse Trouble". While it is animated to a tee by Ken Muse in that cartoon, it does drag in comparison to this cartoon. Perhaps the energy of Tex Avery at the studio was now fully absorbed and the pace much faster. (Also, since Spence does animate this scene, the energy obviously picks up.)
I remember Bill Hanna in his book talking of lending his scream to some of the Tom & Jerry cartoons.
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