"Hey blackie..."

Here's a scene from "Droopy's Good Deed" that's just plain funny! Grant Simmons animated it, I believe.

Don't listen to what a certain nut on the internet tells you about the original having Spike carry a big, fat black lady out of the burning cabin. It doesn't exist. He's crazy.

Daffy Duck Hunt

Mark Mayerson provided me with the draft for this great McKimson short as well.

Manny Gould once again steals the show with his dramatic bit of Daffy telling his story of arctic trauma...



"Suddenly... a glacier cracks! There's a roar! TONS of ice! NO ESCAPE!!!
AHHHHHHHHHH!!!
How's things been with you?"



- Opening to Daffy as Lew Lehr : Phil De Lara
- "Here comes one now" : John Carey
- Daffy's powerdive : De Lara
- "I geyuh-got him!" : Carey
- Daffy's banner : Chuck McKimson
- Daffy putting on skirt : Carey
- Daffy's can-can : Pete Burness
- What the hell?! : Carey
- "G'bye now!" : Burness
- "Go get 'im" : Carey
- Dawg running : Burness
- Close-up of Dawg : McKimson
- Dog crying, Daffy asks what's wrong : De Lara
- Close-up of Daffy to Porky leaving : McKimson
- Exterior shot of Porky and Dawg entering house to Dawg about to open freezer : Carey
- Close-up of devil dog : Manny Gould
- Dawg covering ears : McKimson
- Angel dog appears to "Ah shaddap!" : Gould
- Dawg taking Daffy off to Daffy shaking Dawg's hand : De Lara
- Close-up of dawg to "You're never leavin'!" : McKimson
- Daffy trying to escape to making noise : Burness
- "What goin' on down there?" : McKimson
- Daffy jumps in to Dawg's mouth : Gould
- Daffy gets put back in freezer : Carey
- "It was mush mush mush!" to jumping in mouth again : Gould
- Porky walking in to putting Daffy back : Carey
- Dawg pulling out axe : McKimson
- Dawg chasing Daffy with axe : De Lara
- Daffy shuts door to "Benedict Arnold!" : Burness
- Running downstairs : Carey
- Daffy jumping out as Santa to getting slammed to floor : Gould (except for close-up of calendar: McKimson)
- Iris out : McKimson

Daffy Kaye

Here's another great Daffy Duck scene, this time from the Bob Clampett short "Book Revue". It was animated by Robert McKimson and Manny Gould (I believe). McKimson's animation is a true highlight (and very ocassionally the only highlight) in many of Clampett's films. Very subtle animation, but completely believeable, and you don't come off with the feeling that nothing is really going on in the scene.




By the way, I had to make this clip from a laserdisc transfer... There was so much smeering from the interlacing issues on the Golden Collection disc you wouldn't believe it.

Hawkins Salesduck

This is another great scene Emery Hawkins did of Daffy Duck, from "The Stupor Salesman" (1948). I love how Daffy searches through his case of supplies, throwing out a bra in the process. There's a really nice effect of it being in slow-motion, even though it really isn't. The look of terror on Daffy's face when he's about to get socked is the kind of thing that separates good animation from great.

Kit for Cat

The knowledgeable Mike Kazaleh broke this Friz Freleng short down.

Of note: Pete Burness is uncredited on this film, though he did more footage than Ken Champin. He was low on the 'totem poll' apparently, along with Emery Hawkins, who were usually the ones most likely not to get screen credit.

It's hard to think one could top Gerry Chiniquy's 'jerky' animation, but Burness seems to beat him in spades at it. Burness' scenes also seem to be the most off-model in the film.

This film seems to be proof that Freleng rarely wanted Sylvester to be seen in a role where he wasn't a villain-type character. Rare was the case that Sylvester wasn't a predator of some kind in Freleng's films (among exceptions, "Stooge for a Mouse" and "Canned Feud" where he is a victim, and of course "A Mouse Divided"). Interesting enough, though, he was used as a heckler in Freleng's "Back Alley Oproar" earlier that year.




Cats digging in cans: Chiniquy

Sylvester pounding on door: Ross

Sitting by the fire: Chiniquy

Kitten pounding on door: Ross

"Which one to keep?" sequence: Pete Burness

Sylvester pacing/ "Here, pussy!": Perez

"Did you do that?": Champin

Ball of yarn/broken dishes: Ross

Hypnosis sequence: Burness

Wind-up mouse/Sylvester leaps from armchair: Perez

Sylvester runs around catching stuff: Burness

"One more peep...": Ross

Reaction of kitten: Chiniquy

"Out you go!"/shotgun/earmuffs: Ross

Kitten slams doors: Perez

Kitten switches on radio/makes noise: Chiniquy

Sylvester cahses kitten around: Champin

"I've made up my mind!" to the end: Chiniquy

The Mouse Comes to Dinner

This is one of my favorite Tom & Jerry shorts. It might be because of its sadistic and violent nature. It might be because both character's asses gets more abuse in this short than about a few dozen cartoons put together.

It might be because of this great piece...

"Hey... What's cookin'?"
"You are... STUPID..."
>Haw-haw-haw<

Tom mistaking this for innuendo is priceless. And the bit with him putting the moves on Toots is great too.

Ray Patterson gets more footage than usual to do in this film which makes it all the better. I believe his is the only animation that doesn't get a huge boost from Scott Bradley's fantastic scores.


"The Mouse Comes to Dinner" (1945)


- Fade-in to "Boy that's a beautiful table" : Pete Burness
- "Sure hope nothin' happens to it before the company gets here" to Jerry burning his ass on the spoon : Ken Muse
- Jerry melting the butter to Tom grabbing Toots : Irv Spence
- 'Wolf pacifier' to Tom lighting match on Jerry's ass : Ken Muse
- Jerry picking up pie to Tom getting cherry pie in face : Ray Patterson
- Jerry running off to Tom getting poked in ass with wine bottle : Burness
- Tom getting hit with pastry to Tom going through ceiling : Patterson
- Toots and Jerry running away to iris out : Muse

I should also add that I was actually able to rip this one from the official Tom & Jerry DVD collection. Amazingly this wasn't redubbed or edited, so it was 'useable'.

Why DVNR Sucks Pt. 3

Haven't seen one of these in awhile, have you?

I think by now you all should know what DVNR looks like (in case you've forgotten click here and here). So I'll just be posting some more examples of how DVNR has been destroying the Golden Age of animation.



COMEDY LEGENDS: ABBOT & COSTELLO:
"HERE COME THE CO-EDS" (VHS)

"Chew Chew Baby" (1945)


LOONEY TUNES GOLDEN COLLECTION

"Boobs in the Woods" (1950)

"Canary Row" (1950)




LOONEY TUNES GOLDEN COLLECTION VOL. 2

"The Big Snooze" (1946)






TOM & JERRY SPOTLIGHT COLLECTION

"Kitty Foiled" (1948)







PETER PAN: SPECIAL EDITION
Yes, Disney used it too. It's nowhere near as severe as the shorts, but this movie has been mutilated color-wise ever since it came to home video. DVNR just adds insult to injury.






So what can we do about it? Luckily there are people who care at the studios, whether you think so or not. George Feltenstein at Warner Home Video (and in charge of the Golden Collections) despises DVNR as much as I do, and beginning with Vol. 3, there has been minimal DVNR on the sets (it still showed up on "The Last Hungry Cat" and "The Bear That Wasn't" though).

"Falling Hare" was one of the first pre-1948 titles remastered for DVD. Luckily they caught this one and were able to restore it properly. The left is what you have on your DVD. The right is what you would've gotten.






This has been a public service announcement.