Animation Artifacts &UPA 08 Feb 2006 07:35 am
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- Here’s another storyboard drawing by John Hubley from the UPA film, “Fuddy Duddy Buddy.”
I wasn’t able to remember if this gag was actually in the film. The only copy I have of it is an old vhs tape and had to search for it. However, I was able to scan through it to find that it was cut.
It’s funny; I hadn’t seen the film in at least 15 years, but the two scenes I did remember were the character (Click on images to enlarge them.) of the hotel detective and the animation of
Magoo playing tennis with the walrus.
The detective is a good memorable character, but the only time we see him in the chair is with him, newspaper in hand, peering through cut slits. Magoo and he aren’t in the same scene.
I guess there was once the thought that Magoo and friend would thumb their noses at the detective. Not a bad idea to have lost the gag.
- Amid Amidi at Cartoon Modern has posted some actual stills from Man Alive!, the short featured in the Life Magazine article posted below. A chance to see a storyboard drawing at Blackwing Diaries, what the final film actually looks like at Cartoon Modern, and some publicity posted below. The film must have gotten a bit of attention in its day.
- And to think a cartoonist created so much chaos! The New York Times has a good article today about visual media and the uprise it has created in the past. They remind us of the stir Chris Ofili‘s painting, Holy Virgin Mary, made at NYC’s Brooklyn Museum. The lines to get to see it were longer than the protests Mayor Giuliani tried to stir up. I’d also once posted Daumier‘s Gargantua, a charicature of Louis XIV. It created protests loud enough to have Daumier jailed for months. Is it actually the charicature of Muhammad that’s created such protests?
on 09 Feb 2006 at 8:53 am 1.Amid said …
The Hubley storyboard panel is great to see. I agree that the “nose-thumb” seems a bit out of place for Magoo, but perhaps it might have been funny in the context of the cartoon. Do you have more Hubley panels than the couple you’ve posted here? I can’t wait to see a 35mm of Fuddy Duddy Buddy on the bigscreen at the UPA tribute next month. I’ve only seen a poor video copy of the film, and not only is it a very funny Magoo, but Paul Julian’s background colors look amazing, even in my muddy videooprint.