In this one, Tom gulps down a glass of champagne. Director Bill Hanna times the drawings so the whole bit takes just over half a second (11 frames).
The second and third drawings are the same, but the camera (by Jack Stevens?) trucks in just slightly in the third frame.
Swinging the arm up takes up two frames, as does the next drawing. The remaining drawings take up only one frame apiece.
You’ll notice when Tom first raises the glass, there’s nothing in it. Nobody would catch that watching the cartoon and it saves some painting.
I suspect a few years earlier, Hanna would have had Tom daintily sip the champagne, with Tom in various poses like in a Rudy Ising cartoon. The quicker way is the funnier way.
Ray Patterson, Ken Muse, Irv Spence and Pete Burness are the credited animators. Harvey Eisenberg (uncredited) would have drawn the layouts.
I remember watching "Red Hot Riding Hood" and being reminded of this particular moment from the Tom and Jerry cartoon. There was a similar scene where the Wolf drank a cocktail from a tall glass really quick like that before Red came out. In that one, the wolf tilted the glass to his mouth slowly at first, and then quickly downed the whole thing in one motion.
ReplyDeleteYou're absolutely right, Landon, and I should have mentioned it.
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