Friday 7 August 2020

Greatest Man in Siam Swirls

Swirls, outlines, Phil De Guard’s backgrounds and Pat Matthews’ animation of Miss X are among the highlights of The Greatest Man in Siam, a 1944 short directed by Shamus Culhane for Walter Lantz.

Here are some swirls and outlines as one of the challengers for Miss X’s hand sings his own praises.



Culhane’s timing varies from static shots of backgrounds to jumpy movement on ones.

Matthews and Emery Hawkins receive the animation screen credits but I suspect Les Kline and others on Lantz’s wartime roster are at work here, too. I believe Harry Lang provides voices.
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1 comment:

  1. J Lee7 August 2020 at 07:49

    The swirls and the general look of his Miss X cartoons shows Culhane took a lot of what he saw in the Jones unit at Schlesingers with him over to Lantz, while De Guard went the other way, with hints in some of the backgrounds here of what he'd be doing with the Jones unit in the 1950s.

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