Crockett-Doodle-Doo Background

Here’s a clipped-together background that opens the Foghorn Leghorn cartoon Crockett-Doodle-Doo, released in 1960. Warners has gone flat and UPA-ish, even though UPA was no longer establishing art styles in short cartoons.



The art is by Bob Singer from a layout by Bob Givens. Mr. Singer had this to say:

I really enjoyed painting Bob Givens layouts, less realistic and very designey and I painted exactly what he drew. Most of the day as we worked in the same room we would play Frank Sinatra music as he smoked his pipe.

Singer has some other excellent backgrounds in this short, with good use of colour.

As you might expect, Bob McKimson directed.