Oh, the shame of it!
Phil De Lara, Emery Hawkins, Chuck McKimson and Rod Scribner are the animators. Tedd Pierce wrote this version of the Sylvester-Hippety Hopper concept that director Bob McKimson ran into the ground.
Friday 29 March 2019
Giant Mouse
Sylvester fights the “giant mouse” in Who’s Kitten Who? (1950). A few of a nice set of drawings used in a cycle in this scene.
Oh, the shame of it!
Phil De Lara, Emery Hawkins, Chuck McKimson and Rod Scribner are the animators. Tedd Pierce wrote this version of the Sylvester-Hippety Hopper concept that director Bob McKimson ran into the ground.
Oh, the shame of it!
Phil De Lara, Emery Hawkins, Chuck McKimson and Rod Scribner are the animators. Tedd Pierce wrote this version of the Sylvester-Hippety Hopper concept that director Bob McKimson ran into the ground.
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It could be that Rod Scribner animated this scene you've showcased here.
ReplyDeleteDidn't Chuck McKimson run EVERYTHING into the ground?
ReplyDelete"Who's Kitten Who?" was one of the first Warner's cartoons to show TV aerials -- they're visible as Hippety hops away from the zoo. This foreshadows McKimson's later TV parodies.
ReplyDeleteSylvester still has the extended muzzle and big nose McKimson started giving him with "Crowing Pains" while both Freleng and Jones (and even Clampett and Art Davis with their proto-Sylvesters) were using a design that kept the mouth and nose closer to the head. McKimson would finally give up and go with the more popular design after this cartoon (he also failed to get his 'fat Bugs' design Jean Blanchard came up with to catch on in the late 40s, and slimmed his rabbit back down by the 1951 releases. Both were ironic misfires, since Bob was the guy who standardized the 'look' of Warners' then-main characters in the early 1940s).
ReplyDeleteI always hated those Hippety Hopper cartoons. One of the few Warner cartoon series I can say that about.
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