It's Not Done With Mirrors

“It’s all done with mirrors,” scoffs Egghead in the final spot gag of Believe It Or Else (1939). Mr. Horace Buzzsaw is ready to put someone in a box and saw them in half.

Egghead gets called out on his scepticism (a running gag through the cartoon) so to prove he’s right, he gets in the box.



Buzzsaw saws. The box is opened. “I still don’t believe it,” defiantly states Egghead. Of course, we all know how this is going to turn out.



The stage curtain closes and the cartoon ends with Egghead (top) chasing after Egghead (bottom). It’s a shame director Tex Avery didn’t have him do it over the ending credits.



Dave Monahan gets credit for the story and Virgil Ross for animation. Egghead is played by Danny Webb. I don’t know who the narrator is. Carl Stalling scores The Umbrella Man during most of this sequence.