The last third of the cartoon involves some crooks robbing a cash register, with the good guys ganging up to catch them.
This is a magazine-covers-come-to-life cartoon, so we get the ringleader chased by “Ping Pong” from the pages of “Screen Play” magazine.
There’s another of those familiar gags when a character comes right at the camera and swallows it, which probably looked better in theatres than on the small screen.
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Friz Freleng and Larry Martin are the credited animators.
The version of this cartoon in circulation has an odd iris-out at the end, followed by an urchin who does not appear in this short exclaiming “So long, folks!” Was this tacked on from another cartoon?
Larry Martin was the fellow Bob Clampett said he had in mind when he created Dishonest John. I've seen a photo of Martin and he does indeed look like DJ. To me the DJ puppet more so than the animated version.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Anon. That was my understanding.
Delete“The version of this cartoon in circulation has an odd iris-out at the end, followed by an urchin who does not appear in this short exclaiming “So long, folks!” Was this tacked on from another cartoon?”
ReplyDeleteNot really. The same ending card appears in The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives (he appears in this one in the toon as well), Young and Healthy and The Organ Grinder (he doesn’t appear in these two shorts in the toon itself. Probably just Harman and Ising reusing an end card (like Piggy in several 1931 - 1932 Merrie Melodies shorts that don’t even feature him).