Horace Walks

One of the endearing things about early ‘30s animation made in New York is characters would do things just for the sake of doing them. Somehow, it worked.

One of the early ‘30s New York studios was Terrytoons, and it was still doing the same kind of thing years later.

In the 1953 cartoon Blind Date, Horace the millionaire has a silly walk at times. Why? Just to get a laugh. There’s no reason for him to walk that way; Carlo Vinci gave Yogi Bear a funny walk but the way his body was constructed, it made sense. This is just a rubbery thing solely to look stupid. Some sample frames. (Sorry for the fuzziness).



There’s an even odder sweeping-leg walk cycle later in the cartoon. Eddie Donnelly directed this short.