Below are 24 frames—one second of animation. The Big Bad Wolf is breaking out of jail. He races up “past the camera.”
Here is the animation slowed down.
Clampett loved radio and pop culture references. There are plenty of them here, with a send-up of The Whistler and The Aldrich Family, and caricatures of Gene Krupa, Harry James, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Bob Burns, W.C. Fields, the inevitable scrawny version of Frank Sinatra, and Daffy Duck impersonating Danny Kaye. (See E.O. Costello's comment; this cartoon pre-dates the radio show Escape; I was thinking of Suspense).
Rod Scribner, Manny Gould, Bill Melendez and Bob McKimson are the credited animators.
My favourite drawing in this cartoon is Daffy turning into an eyeball. You can see the frames in this post.
Tomorrow, we'll have a hidden gag from this cartoon for you.
One small issue: this cartoon was released in January, 1946, but the "Escape" radio show ran on CBS from 1947 to 1954. I have not been able to find any evidence that like, say "The Whistler," [also seen in the cartoon] it was a West Coast show. It's rather more likely it's a reference to the 1939 novel by Grace Zaring Stone of the same name, which was adapted for the screen by MGM in 1940. She also wrote "The Bitter Tea of General Yen" and "Winter Meeting." "Escape," incidentally, was written under a pseudonym, for reasons discussed in the 4/5/1942 New York Times.
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DeleteThe older post linked here refers to the Tiny Toon Adventures episode where Plucky Duck gets stuck in an eyeball when he attempts "the Clampett Corneal Catastrophe." That was a brilliant cartoon, and Book Revue was Clampett at his best, and fit with the long history of cartoons with inanimate objects coming to life.
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