He seems to have done it less after getting settled in at MGM, perhaps because he wanted nothing to draw attention away from the gag. But here’s a cinematic effect treated quite straight in The Cat That Hated People (1948).
After the cat’s rocket ship treats the planets as a pinball game, Avery has the camera move up and in on the world where the ship crashes. He fades into three different background drawings by Johnny Johnsen; the only thing animated is a thin stream of smoke.
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It’s done very straight. The same thing was done cleverly and as a joke in the 1946 Warner Bros. cartoon The Mouse-Merized Cat (“Hey, Babbitt! The people are here!” says the Costello mouse in what sure seems like a Bob Clampett cartoon, but isn’t.)
Walter Clinton, Louie Schmitt, Grant Simmons and Bill Shull are credited on this cartoon as animators.
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