tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post5324658093065691370..comments2024-03-28T11:45:24.378-07:00Comments on Tralfaz: Little Red Walking HoodYowphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-47913133052297593752011-10-26T18:20:29.701-07:002011-10-26T18:20:29.701-07:00Spence also handled the wolf failing to get the fr...Spence also handled the wolf failing to get the front door open and then grabbing his face as Egghead just walks in. Great both broad and subtle reaction shots here, and the subtle things like the shoulder shrug were among the little throw-in gags that started making Schlesinger's cartoons special around late 1937. (BTW - Between this cartoon and "The Isle of Pingo Pongo" one of the unheralded lessons of the early Warners cartoons is never get around Egghead's violin case if you want to stay safe).<br /><br />As far as the background, I pretty much thought in the 30s that the style, or the problems with style, pretty much went hand-in-hand with the struggles Warners was going through to make the animation work with and not against the gags. But if you asked the background department to do something special, as in the middle part of "Miss Glory", "Porky in Wackyland" or "Coo-Coo Nut Grove" they could do work that was certainly above the level Jones rated them at.J Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15175515543694122729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-87100587698336057702011-10-26T13:24:25.991-07:002011-10-26T13:24:25.991-07:00Is it me or does the backgrounds look as though it...Is it me or does the backgrounds look as though it was colored with colouring pencils but really colored in well?<br /><br />I think that Irv Spence did the scenes of the Wolf disguised as Grandma as Riding Hood enters - and the Egghead scene and he declares himself as the hero of this picture.Steven Hartleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13825398324719609394noreply@blogger.com