Monday 29 April 2019

Blow Your Head Off

Short gags, long gags. Tex Avery and his writers (Heck Allen or Rich Hogan) would use both in their MGM cartoons.

Here’s a short one from Ventriloquist Cat (1950). Avery and Hogan see how many variations they can do on a cat luring a dog into some kind of violent danger.

Dialogue is unnecessary in this short scene. You can get the idea from these frames. Ol’ Tex ends it with something else familiar—a stare at the camera (sometimes the stare would be interrupted by blinking, accompanied by a Scott Bradley piano chord).



Walt Clinton, Mike Lah and Grant Simmons are the credited animators.

1 comment:

  1. I suspect Tex and his gagmen weren't able to devise enough gags involving the voice-throwing premise to fill out the cartoon, so they had to briefly detour into this brief montage of unrelated generic blackouts.

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