Tuesday 19 July 2022

Red Dances

Preston Blair’s master-work at the MGM cartoon studio has to be the dance sequence in Red Hot Riding Hood (1943). Much has been written about it, so there’s little for me to say other than enjoy some of these drawings from one scene.



Tex Avery cuts to a shot of the wolf, then widens the shot to show the applause and whistle machine.



Did Blair have an assistant on this? If he did, who?

For all of Blair’s fine work, he and the other animators received no on-screen credit. Ed Love and Ray Abrams also animated this cartoon, the third of Avery’s put into production at MGM.
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3 comments:

  1. Hans Christian Brando19 July 2022 at 17:51

    She's too cute here, with overeager shoulders. "Swing Shift Cinderella" finds her vastly improved.

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  2. Randy20 July 2022 at 08:49

    Overeager shoulders?

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  3. Eulalio7 August 2022 at 23:22

    I think her dancing routine in this short is the best one, the one from Swing Shift Cinderella is almost as good but has less creative poses. afterward those dances became more and more stiffy, except maybe, for the one in Wild and Woolfy.

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