Tuesday 21 June 2022

Annie Round the World

Chuck Jones very capably uses a variety of limited animation techniques in the Private Snafu short It's Murder She Says... (1945).

Here are four static drawings of malaria-carrying Anopheles Annie that appear in the cartoon. They’re used several times. The first time, lettering zooms into place on each of them. The second and third times, the camera cuts into them closer and closer as Carl Stalling’s music gets more and more dramatic.



As you can see, Jones is using the short to try out stylisation, much like he did in The Point Rationing of Foods (1943).

Just don’t call it “Illustrated Radio.”

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