Thursday 12 December 2019

They Rattle My Brains

Daffy Duck’s The Upstanding Sitter has what you’d expect in an early Bob McKimson-directed cartoon—waving arms, floppy tongues, walking in perspective to the side of a camera. This one also has some rhyming verse courtesy of Warren Foster.

When Daffy strolls to his next gig complaining that his young charges rattle his brain, his head goes off in all kinds of directions. The scene is animated on ones.



Sorry there’s so much digital fuzz. My DVD with the cartoon won’t play and this version was grabbed off the internet.

Manny Gould, Phil De Lara, John Carey and Chuck McKimson are the animators in this short.
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4 comments:

  1. Steve Bailey12 December 2019 at 09:17

    I often wonder what McKimson felt like, going from his great work of the 1940's and '50s to the lethargic Daffy-Speedy cartoons of the 1960's.

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  2. top_cat_james12 December 2019 at 10:24

    The bulldog's panicked expression as he escapes his doghouse is hilarious.

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  3. J Lee13 December 2019 at 01:57

    Being a Cinecolor release, this was the newest cartoon sold by Warners in 1956 to AAP as part of the pre-48 package of color cartoons (and B&W Harmon-Ising Merrie Melodies), and while it contains some of the mid-1940s wilder animation of the McKimson unit, you can see the second half of the cartoon starting to turn into the more controlled efforts Bob's units produced by the early 50s (which wasn't necessarily a bad thing -- it just meant the cartoon had to rely more on the gags within the story to work, and Foster's running bits with the bulldog pay off here).

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