The premise of the short is the generic Avery cat throws his voice to lure and cause harm to Spike (because, at the beginning of the cartoon, he tells us he hates dogs, as a matter of principle, I guess).
In this scene, the cat throws his voice to two store mannequins, and then a cop outside the store. Spike hears the noise, and rips off the clothes of each to find the cat.
See how Avery uses poses and expressions. Spike stops, looks and reacts as he realises his mistake. Tex could be a master of poses just as much as Chuck Jones.
My guess is the scene is by Mike Lah, judging by the angles on the characters and the conjoined eyes (which he drew in his cartoons for Hanna-Barbera). Walt Clinton and Grant Simmons also animated this 1950 release, with the story credit to Rich Hogan.
One observation about the design: those "Keystone Kops" type police caps had pretty much vanished by the 1920s, let alone the late 1940s, in no small measure because of the Kops. Yet, for cartoons like this, they were still used!
ReplyDeleteHemlock Holmes and his squad of Retouchables from The Dick Tracy Show spoofed the Keystone Kops in the early 1960s.
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