I like the lighting highlights on the fence as the cartoon opens. They flash, though you can’t tell from this solitary frame.
The next scene has animation in silhouette.
King decides to show off with a bunch of wipes and dissolves.
Gags? One scene-ending gag is Beans eating a can of beans. That’s a bigger bomb than the ones seen in the cartoon.
Sandy Walker and Cal Dalton are the credited animators. Joe Dougherty is Porky and you’ll hear Billy Bletcher on the soundtrack, too, along with composer Norman Spencer’s obsession with a backbeat woodblock.
Cartoons like this one and "Shanghaied Shipmates" go a long way towards explaining why Leon (or Henry, or Ray) almost immediately promoted Tex Avery to the No. 2 unit behind Friz at the studio, and gave him instead of Disney-veteran King the job of helping Freleng with the color Merrie Melodies cartoons. The amazing thing in looking at Jack's 1935-36 Warners efforts is how well some of his later Donald Duck cartoons at Disney turned out.
ReplyDeleteAnother Jack King failure, which pretty much sums up his tenure at Warner's.
ReplyDeleteThank God for Carl Stalling who soon replaced Norman Spencer - Spencer certainly loved that woodblock in his music scores, didn't he?!?
Jack King would later become a good director at Disney with the Donald Duck shorts later. :)
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