Cat Fight

Animators will use ghost images, multiples or airbrush strokes to indicate speed in cartoons.

In Ub Iwerks’ ComiColor short The Brementown Musicians (1935), an uncredited animator uses lines to show speed as a cat attacks one of the robbers in his home. Here are some random frames. The drawings are shot on two frames.



Only Iwerks and composer Carl Stalling receive screen credit on this short, distributed on a state’s rights basis.