Uh, oh. Sylvester’s plan is about to be spoiled by the electric trolley running along the road. Note the motorman.
As Carl Stalling plays Shuffle Off To Buffalo, the streetcar catches up with Sylvester and ZAP!!!
Cut to the end. The motorman has been replaced by Tweety and Granny. How? Why? Oh, well. It’s a cartoon. Granny sure is enjoying trying to electrocute Sylvester.
You can see some of Paul Julian’s background work in this short, including some pasted together frames, on this blog.
Tedd Pierce came up with the story for director Friz Freleng. Virgil Ross, Arthur Davis, Emery Hawkins, Gerry Chiniquy and Ken Champin are the animators.
When this ran on " The Bugs Bunny/Tweety Hour " on ABC back in the nineties, it was edited so badly, you just thought Sylvester was simply running from the street car, and nothing else.
ReplyDeleteOnce the ABC censors finished improving those cartoons, some of them ran three minutes. Is it any surprise that they spawned a generation of cancel culture?
DeleteThey are currently shown uncut on MeTV.
DeleteThe motorman is a caricature of Art Davis.
ReplyDeleteYeah, it does look like him. Thanks. I never noticed.
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