What Was That I Just Passed?

Animator Ed Love doesn’t go for a huge Tex Avery-type eye-take in the Woody Woodpecker cartoon Drooler's Delight.

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.