Shaking a Building the Fleischer Way

There’s a real neat effect that the Fleischer studio used in some of its cartoons in the late ‘30s.

To emphasize the pounding Bluto is taking in the Organ Grinder’s Swing, the background setting becomes angular, like the buildings are shaking. The drawing is alternated every other frame with the regular building setting.



You’ll notice Olive Oyl swinging her spaghetti arms in a window in the background.

This 1937 cartoon was from the Dave Tendlar unit, with Bill Sturm getting an animation screen credit.