In a time-honoured comedy tradition, Woody goes in drag to distract his enemy, Buzz Buzzard.
Buzz strolls along then realises he just walked past a babe. Here’s how Love handles it (we aren’t posting all the in-betweens).
Buzz (and his cigar) get hot.
This was when the Walter Lantz studio was at its peak, with some great animators, a number of them formerly with Disney. In fact, it shut down after this cartoon when Lantz’s deal with United Artists went sour.
Love animated almost all of this 1949 cartoon on his own, if I understand the situation correctly, with some help from an assistant. Dick Lundy directed the short.
The UA/Lantz product was terrific - solid animation, decent stories and fun Darrell Calker music. A shame Lionel Stander didn't voice Buzz when the studio reopened 18+ months later.
ReplyDeleteLantz had extremely good people on the payroll then. It's a shame it collapsed so quickly.
DeleteI love Stander's Buzz. He has that wonderful menacing sound. There was some good casting at Lantz at the time. Walter Tetley was perfect as Andy Panda, and Jack Mather was versatile. I've always liked Eddie Marr; he was one of several people in Hollywood who did a great con-artist pitch-man voice, and he played thugs some of the time, too.