Very smooth animation, but not very funny. Too bad Emery Hawkins didn't animate this one. The grandmother's voice isn't very good either - trying too hard to be cartoony. Not among my favorite Hubley commercials.
Interestingly enough, several of my friends seem to remember this one very well - and they hadn't been born when it came out! I have no idea why, and neither do they...
I remember it too , from the late 60's so I wonder if the agency reused it later , re-inking the cels in color (or were they originally inked & painted in color?) for rebroadcast ?
Is there any chance that this could be a Quartet commercial that Babbitt did in the mid-50s? Quartet had the core crew of Hubley's Storyboard so a lot of their commercials look and feel like Hubleys.
Mickey Cuts Up was directed by Burt Gillett and released 11/30/1931. It is found on Disney Treasures DVD: Mickey Mouse in Black & White Volume 1 disc 1. You may still find it here on YouTube. Have a look, if you need a clearer understanding of the following documents! Gillett left some documents pertaining Mickey Cuts Up behind, and I would like here to show a few of these that I recently lucked into. It is interesting to speculate in which order these were written - they seem to all be in Gillett's own handwriting and would probably date to late August or early September 1931. First we have two pages, numbered 1 & 2, with ideas linked to names, Otto and Webb, which to me seems to mean that the ideas were originally thought out by either Otto Englander or Webb Smith. There are interesting ideas that did not make the film - they are crossed out: "mower bumps up and down on hedge - trick cuts." Some were not crossed out and made it in the film: "Cuts down tre...
Seq. 19.1 "'I've Seen Everything' Song" Directed by Jack Kinney , assistant director Lou Debney, layout Don DaGradi. This FINAL draft dated 6/25/41. Mostly birds by Ward Kimball, one of the scenes by Walt Kelly, with Fred Moore animating Timothy, and one scene by Don Towsley. Effects by Miles Pike, George Rowley, [George] Baker, Sandy Strother, [?] Wilson, Jerome Brown and Dan Macmanus. This is certainly one of the highlights of the movie. Why? Because it is enjoyable, entertaining, snappy, with great characters and fun music - and animation worthy of Kimball.
Don Graham introduces this Thursday evening Action Analysis Class as the "last class for a while," and it seems that the next classes were held in July, some four months later. In this class he discusses "the work covered to date," concentrating on anticipation and overlapping action, with examples from Alpine Climbers , and referencing Dave Hand's lecture two weeks earlier. Johnny Cannon pantomimes overlapping actions, and we hear from George Goepper, Jack Hannah, Jack Campbell, Paul Allen, Riley Thompson, Jim Algar and Bill Shull. Is Paul Allen questioning Fergie's animation? I remember the discussions while animation on Vahalla in the 80's, on overlapping actions and follow-thru. They were especially mixed up as the term "overlap" had been used to mean follow-thru. It took years to rid folks of this bad habit, and some never could get used to it...
Very smooth animation, but not very funny. Too bad Emery Hawkins didn't animate this one. The grandmother's voice isn't very good either - trying too hard to be cartoony. Not among my favorite Hubley commercials.
ReplyDeleteInterestingly enough, several of my friends seem to remember this one very well - and they hadn't been born when it came out! I have no idea why, and neither do they...
ReplyDeleteI remember it too , from the late 60's so I wonder if the agency reused it later , re-inking the cels in color (or were they originally inked & painted in color?) for rebroadcast ?
ReplyDeleteIs there any chance that this could be a Quartet commercial that Babbitt did in the mid-50s? Quartet had the core crew of Hubley's Storyboard so a lot of their commercials look and feel like Hubleys.
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