Turnaround Cat

At Terrytoons and Hanna-Barbera, Carlo Vinci used to have an animation routine where a character would leap up, stretch out, churn his back legs while moving backward in mid air, then zoom out of a scene with a trail of dry brush strokes.

Here’s a good example of the same thing from another studio.

In Crazy Mixed Up Pup, an innocent kitty in a doorway suddenly notices Sam-as-a-dog running toward him (off camera). Here are some of the frames as the kitty zooms out the door.



Don Patterson, La Verne Harding and Ray Abrams are the animators for Tex Avery in this Walter Lantz short.

On the strength of this cartoon, Lantz decided to make it into a series. The problem was that Tex was gone. No one else can be Tex Avery.