Monday 30 January 2023

Stretched Spies

There are some fun visuals you can see in the Chuck Jones-directed Snafu short Spies (1943), but here’s one where you have to freeze the frames.

It’s another one of those stretch in-between scenes that Bobe Cannon specialised in. A few spies come out of their hiding places to repeat a line in the rhyming verse (by Dr. Seuss, I suspect), and then disappear.



Carl Stalling tosses Raymond Scott’s “Powerhouse” into the soundtrack, and the familiar “horse’s ass” music ends it all.

2 comments:

  1. Eric O. Costello30 January 2023 at 10:38

    From what I gather, Seuss/Geisel's involvement in the Snafu series waned over time, but a few of them, especially the early ones, bear his stamp. "Spies" I think has the clearest fingerprints of Seuss/Geisel -- just look at the moose design (shortly after this sequence), or the design of the horse that comes just before the stills you show above.

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