Stork Eyes

“Have you ever wondered,” as Andy Rooney might have said, “what you can see in cartoons if you watch them watch them frame by frame?”

Here’s an example in Apes of Wrath, a 1959 effort from the Friz Freleng unit at Warners. I like the decision to give the drunken stork pink eyes. But when he hiccoughs, his eyes have more than one pupil.



Art Davis, Gerry Chiniquy and Virgil Ross are the credited animators. Warren Foster, who wrote the story, was hired at Hanna-Barbera four days before this cartoon was released on April 18, 1959. He had been working for John Sutherland Productions since November 1957.