There’s a roll-around take they seem to have loved at Van Beuren. It’s when a character is lying flat and swirls around.
Here’s an example from Rabid Hunters (released in 1932). Tom and Jerry are hunters. Tom has to awaken Jerry by blowing his fox hunter’s horn.
Jerry leaps into mid-air and twirls around in a cycle of 12 drawings, one per frame.
No one’s going to mistake this animation for Disney, are they? Or even Fleischer.
This version of the cartoon is from Ira Gallen’s collection. It’s clearer than that non-watermarked, beat-up version I have from the Tom and Jerry DVD put out by Thunderbean a number of years ago. Fortunately for you Van Beuren fans, Thunderbean has gone back and taken great care in restoring every Tom and Jerry cartoon for a Blu-Ray version. I can’t order from Thunderbean for several reasons, but perhaps you can. Go to the company site to see more.
John Foster and George Stallings get the “by” credit on this short, with Gene Rodemich supplying the score.
Van Beuren cartoons look like they want to be Fleischer cartoons when they grow up.
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