The iris begins to close, but no! The cartoon isn’t over. “Do-um some more,” the coy, giggling Indian (Billy Bletcher) asks the bearded westerner, who indulges. A few more similar tickle drawings and the cartoon ends for sure.
This is Injun Trouble, a 1938 cartoon from Bob Clampett which features two types of animation. One is the stretchy, floppy kind, and the other is fairly realistic when a horse gallops in a cycle.
Chuck Jones and Izzy Ellis get animation screen credits but I imagine Bobe Cannon, John Carey and Norm McCabe worked on it as well.
Carl Stalling fills the soundtrack with his western/rural favourites, including “Jubilo,” “Sun Dance” and, for the prospector/scout/whatever he is, “The Old Apple Tree” on a sweet potato.
i'm assuming Bobe Cannon did work on this one as well. Elmer Plummer did the Layouts in this cartoon according to that book by Graham Webb.
ReplyDeleteon second thought thanks to the Looney Tunes wiki (reliable to a point) it does credit him for animation if you see some smears once in a while
DeleteCJ, I've been told by people who know this stuff much better than I do that this is a Cannon scene.
DeleteAs for Mr. Webb's book, I don't know what his source material is. He made educated guesses in some places in the absence of records.
right. i have other stuff like besides Animation history that i love & still love to collaborate or talk about animation history!
DeleteThis one's zanier, but I can't help preferring the more controlled color remake "Wagon Heels," just as I rather prefer "Dough For the Do-Do" to "Porky In Wackyland." Okay, so shoot me.
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