Milk and Money Backgrounds

Tex Avery enjoyed a left-to-right pan over a background drawing whenever it fit in with one of his cartoons, both at Warners and MGM.

That’s how he begins the 1936 Porky Pig short Milk and Money.

It starts with an overlaid cel of trees.



The trees are pulled away from the actual background, which also has animation of Porky’s dad hoeing the garden to the strains of “Home Sweet Home.”



The background artist is uncredited, but we know who it is, thanks to a newspaper article of the day. It was John A. Waltz, who sandwiched in some time at Leon Schlesinger’s studio in between stops at Walt Disney. You can read a partial list of his credits at Warners in this post.