Naturally, “female” in cartoon means “breasts.” Scott Bradley (I suspect to his annoyance) has “Frankie and Johnny” in the background during this scene.
Naturally, the plan fails as a bulldog enters the picture.
Heck Allen helped Tex with the gags.
Keith Scott has discovered Dick Nelson is George and the dumb Junior is played by Avery himself. Preston Blair, Walt Clinton, Ed Love and Ray Abrams are the animators with background art by an uncredited Johnny Johnsen.
Irv Spence’s model sheets for this cartoon are dated April 13, 1945. Boxoffice magazine announced (at the time) the cartoon was released almost two years later, April 12, 1947. But as Jerry Beck has mentioned, theatres could show cartoons as soon as the local exchange received them. To the right is an ad from April 3rd revealing Hound Hunters opening in a Pittsburgh theatre (you’ll have to click on it to view the little box in the right-hand bottom corner).
"Lady in the Lake" was Bob Montgomery's first-person POV experiment as star and director - merrily spoofed in the Joe McDoakes short "So You Want to Be a Detective." (If Montgomery had waited a few years for 3D...)
ReplyDeleteThe Loew’s Penn and the movie palace one block north of there, the Stanley Theatre, are still around today. Loew’s Penn is now the Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts; the Stanley, the Benedum Center for the Performing Arts—the latter still flashing its classic signage on the side of the building from time to time.
ReplyDelete—Joey Gatorman