Jeeper's Creepers Backgrounds

Appropriately creepy backgrounds take up a good portion of the first third of Jeepers Creepers, a 1939 cartoon from the Bob Clampett unit.

Dick Thomas is responsible for these. There’s an establishing background. Then the camera trucks in. It also jerks sideways a bit. Warners cartoons always seemed to be doing this in the late ‘30s; it’s not a smooth shot and I don’t know why the studio liked doing this.



There are some lovely long paintings that I can’t put together from frames because of camera movement or effects animation. Here’s part of a house shot.



Looking up.



The shutters are on frames as they’re animated. The camera pans up to the roof.



Here’s a great living room painting that Manny Corral pans over, back and forth and in and out. Because of that, I can only show four portions.



The camera pans in then dissolves to a background featuring a radio.



Carl Stalling picks J.S. Zamecnik’s “Storm Music” to use over the footage of the house.

Ernie Gee wrote the story and Vive Risto got the rotating animation credit.