Of course, Bugs adds something extra.
“I wonder if he’s stubborn enough to open all those doors?” Bugs asks himself.
Cut to a closer shot. I love the colour change to indicate the explosion.
Virgil Ross is still away from the studio playing piano, so the animators here are Ted Bonnicksen, Gerry Chiniquy and Art Davis. Irv "Wyner" Weiner painted the backgrounds.
As funny as the post-shutdown Friz cartoons in 1955 are, I consider this his weakest year of the decade, animation-wise, precisely because it was lacking Virgil Ross, and Ted Bonnicksen was a weak substitute. His work on Red Riding Hoodwinked was particularly bad.
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Not to mention, Bonnicksen animated half of “This is a Life?” (not counting archive footage of course), and it’s VERY noticeable next to the stark posing and drawing of Art Davis on the other half.
DeleteAs with Foxy by Proxy that I mentioned last week, budget-minded Friz again reuses footage from another director (the Chuckster's Frigid Hare (1949) ) for the beginning of this cartoon as well.
ReplyDeleteOne of the funniest cartoons ever.
ReplyDeleteWho can forget Sam telling his none-too-bright camel to "Whoa" and "Giddyap" and walloping the camel on his head with his weapon (𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅, 𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒏). 🤣 A real highlight in this cartoon.
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