Warner Bros., M-G-M, Terrytoons, Paramount, Disney, Lantz Animators identified by scene breakdowns

Which cels/scenes do you have?

 

Terrytoons today: Dutch Treat gets the breakdown treatment:

http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/terrytoons-dutch-treat-1930/

 

MGM/Hugh Harman breakdown posted today: The Field Mouse (Grandpa sounds like he was voiced by Mel Blanc):

http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/hugh-harmans-the-field-mouse-1941/

 

Peculiar Fleischer one-off posted today called "Bring Himself Back Alive":

http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/fleischers-bring-himself-back-alive/

 

An Oswald from Disney today - Hugh Harman did a lot of the animation for this one: http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/disneys-oswald-rabbit-the-ocean-hop-1927/

 

Art Davis started/Robert McKimson finished this week's breakdown A Ham in a Role:
http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/robert-mckimsons-a-ham-in-a-role/

 

Always fun when Stan Freberg did voicework at Warner Bros.

 

Rudy Ising directed today's short - The Bear and the Beavers, a Barney BearMGM short from 1942. Lumbering pace, Ising was well behind the times as far as his timing of cartoons was concerned:
http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/mgms-the-bear-and-the-beavers-1942/

 

Tripleheader today - Lantz' Woody the Giant Killer:
http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/woody-the-giant-killer-1947/

Disney's The Tortoise and the Hare:
http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/disneys-the-tortoise-and-the-hare-1934/

Warner Bros up today - McKimson's Daffy Duck Hunt:
http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/mckimsons-daffy-duck-hunt-1949/

 

Awesome post today - the finest Woody Woodpecker cartoon gets the treatment today: Shamus Culhane mans the controls for The Barber of Seville, an action packed short with topnotch animation from Emery Hawkins and Pat Mathews working at Walter Lantz' studio:
http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/walter-lantz-the-barber-of-seville-1945/

Super fast cuts in this one - Tex Avery's fast-faster-faster approach to cartoons pushed the animation pedal to the metal, and Walter Lantz' studio showed they could do some great animation with the right people working on the shorts (Culhane/Hawkins/Mathews/Dick Lundy/LaVerne Harding/Fred Moore)

 

I don't know any of the behind the scenes details, but Hannah Barbara got terrible starting in the early 70s. It's worth getting Pussycats in Outer Space just to laugh at the animation.

 

Oh, some of those were beyond terrible. In fairness to them, they were still trying to do the animation, backgrounds, and plate camera work in LA, and the shows were the best they could do with the budgets they had. Eventually, it all shifted to Asia, and some of the animation quality got better. But the stories were all over the place.

I won't name the company, but there was a 1980s animation studio I worked for where the boss told me at one point, "hey, we're not saying our shows are fine art, but at least we're employing 90 people a week." So they were doing the best they could to make the network happy and keeping people employed.

 

A couple breakdowns for the holiday season - Disney's Santa's Workshop is the breakdown posted today:
http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/disneys-santa-workshop-1932/

Missed last's weeks posting - an early MGM color cartoon Alias St. Nick from the Harman/Ising team:
http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/mgms-alias-st-nick-1935/

Some of the characters in this one have those cutesy kiddie voices that appeared in Warner Bros cartoons of the era.

 

indy mike, Thanks for all these. They are all fun to watch and I'm amazed at how beautiful some of them are. One of my favorites that I hope will have a complete set released one of these days are the Scrappy cartoons done by Columbia. Great films which deserve to be seen by many more people.

 

Tom and Jerry's The Night Before Christmas from December 1941 is today's breakdown installment:
http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/mgms-the-night-before-christmas-1941-with-tom-jerry/

 

The Columbia Pictures catalog is a tough sell - they never had a breakout series (The Fox and Crow shorts are well animated and have a number of funny moments, but they never caught on in the way Mickey/Donald/Bugs/Tom and Jerry/Popeye/Woody Woodpecker/Mighty Mouse did). The later UPA cartoons that weren't done in-house by a Columbia owned studio drew critical acclaim for their graphically oriented approach to animation, and Mr. Magoo finally gave Columbia a character that could be merchandised; the Magoo theatrical shorts have been released on dvd, and the non-Magoo shorts have also been available on dvd for a couple years, but they've never been aired on television consistently. The Columbia Pictures in-house cartoons made before UPA began providing cartoons to Columbia have never been shown consistently - they're inconsistent in a lot of ways, and their low budgets kept them in the lower tier of animation providers.

 

I love the old Warner Bros. cartoons and this thread is great!

I realize that this isn't related to the topic at hand, but, being that this is "The Steve Hoffman Music Forums", I wanted to be sure that all of you animation fans have seen this great "short" from earlier this year, called "A Single Life" …

 

Disney strikes with an excellent/action packed masterpiece Hockey Homicide:
http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/disneys-hockey-homicide-1945/

The influence of Tex Avery's Warner Bros. and MGM warp speed animation worked its way to Disney; Goofy seems to have been the main beneficiary of the frantic animation evolution, and this is one of the best from the Mouse Factory.

 

Ski for Two starring Woody Woodpecker (directed by Shamus Culhane) gets the treatment this go-around:
http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/woody-woodpecker-in-ski-for-two-1944/