Bob Clampett In a Bob Clampett Cartooo-ooon

Jerry Beck remarked after reading yesterday’s crack about an animated Bob Clampett that it might be fun to do a quick post on the times there was an animated Bob Clampett in cartoons. I thought I had posted some of these frames before, but evidently not.



None of the animators got credit in Tex Avery’s Art Moderne masterpiece, Page Miss Glory (1936), so they were inserted in the cartoon itself. Clampett is the hook-nosed guy giving an annoyed look to a short guy, who is assistant animator Bobe Cannon.



“Captain Clampett” is one of the acts in Circus Today (1940), another Tex Avery cartoon. Clampett had been directing his own unit for several years at this point.



Here’s eager animator Bob Clampett rushing out of a ramshackle cartoon studio in A Cartoonist’s Nightmare (1936), directed by Jack King. That’s writer Tubby Millar in front of him.



Thad Komorowski points out that Clampett’s head appears for two frames in a wonderful set of fight drawings in Porky and Daffy (1938). Clampett directed this cartoon, with the credited animators being Bobe Cannon and John Carey. You’d never see this watching the cartoon. Incidentally....



This cartoon also has a reference to assistant animator Roger Daley. He never received a screen credit at Warners.



In Porky’s Hero Agency (1937), Clampett is part of a picket fence of Greek statuary, second to the right (Chuck Jones in to the far right).



In 1944, Clampett appeared naked as a gremlin from the Kremlin in Russian Rhapsody.



When Clampett’s company sold ABC on airing Beany and Cecil as part of Matty’s Funday Funnies, Clampett inserted his caricature and his name in the opening animation, tossing in his name into the show’s theme song. Chuck who? Friz what?

If anyone has other examples of Clampett cameos in cartoons, let me know so I can add them to the post (provided my discs aren’t corrupted). Thanks to Thad and Jerry, that fine English singing duo of the 1960s, for suggesting this.