Animation Artifacts 18 Apr 2006 07:33 am
Blackfeet
– This is the final model I have from Heap Hep Injuns a 1950 Paramount cartoon. Tom Johnson drew this image, prior to animating it, and Izzy Sparber directed the film. I’d heard some stories about I. Klein regarding this film, though he’s not credited, so I suspect he may have had something to do with model approvals, as well. Actually, he may have been the “Izzy” referred to on the pan posted yesterday.
(click on image to enlarge.)
I was never a big fan of the Paramount cartoons. Growing up in New York, we’d always get Paramount or Terrytoons shorts playing with features in the theaters. Only rarely did a Warners cartoon or a Disney short show up. (I don’t think I saw a Tom & Jerry cartoon until I was 17 when they started jamming the local TV kidshows with them.)
Saturdays there was always the placard outside the theater advertising “Ten Color Cartoons”. A haughty child, I naturally wanted to know why they didn’t show B&W cartoons – that’s what we saw on television, and I usually liked them more. I must have been insufferable for my siblings to put up with me.
The starburst at the beginning of the Mighty Mouse cartoons always got an enormous cheer in the local theaters. I don’t remember ever hearing that for Popeye or Harveytoons.
on 18 Apr 2006 at 3:05 pm 1.Bob Jaques said …
Thanks for posting the drawing. I’d love to see more stories about your experiences with the veteran New York animators if you care to share them. (that includes artwork too)
on 19 Apr 2006 at 1:32 am 2.oscar grillo said …
Don’t ask me why but I used to find the airbrushed trailer behind Mighty Mouse cape and the little eyelashes they drew in the characters absolutely irresistible. Loved it!!…But I hated “Heckle and Jeckle”!
In my local cinema in Buenos Aires not only they showed cartoons, they also put cartoon’s posters and photos in the lobby!
on 19 Apr 2006 at 7:27 am 3.Michael said …
That’s exactly what grabbed me about Mighty Mouse. I drew him incessantly when I was 12. The airbrushed Bg they had with him flying out, was to me what the WB bullseye was for others.