Friday, 21 January 2022

6,504,385,632

Prisoner Spike decides to dig himself out of prison in Cellbound (1955), a Tex Avery cartoon finished up by Mike Lah.

20 years passes and Spike has finally counted his last spoonful of soil: 6,504,385,632.



The gag topper is nobody in the prison has noticed the huge pile of dirt outside his window.



Lah and designer Ed Benedict were the last of the Avery unit to work on this cartoon. The animators all came from the Hanna and Barbera unit—Ken Muse, Irv Spence and Ed Barge, along with background artist Vera Ohman.

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