Now You See Them...

It happens. The animation checker misses something and an overlay cel doesn’t get shot, meaning something on the screen vanishes.

In Guided Muscle, released in 1955, Wile E. Coyote lays a spoon and a knife next to a pepper mill on a cactus.



Wile E. picks up the mill, and the utensils disappear.



The drawing above is held for two frames. Next drawing.



Two more frames.



Ah, they're back!

The animators are Dick Thompson, Ken Harris, Ben Washam and Abe Levitow. This was the last cartoon from the Chuck Jones unit put into production before the Warner Bros. shutdown of 1953. Maurice Noble was gone, so Phil De Guard takes over layouts and Dick Thomas from the former McKimson unit (it was eliminated 3 1/2 months before the shutdown) paints the backgrounds.