Jim Tyer - Cat Happy

Because I know how much you can't get enough of this guy's crazy stuff. Tyer gives his unique interpretation of a cat getting high on catnip. The sneeze scene is one of Tyer's absolute greatest.

Dan Gordon's Cookie

Dan Gordon has quickly become one of my favorite cartoonists. Here's a Cookie story of his from COOKIE #11. Cookie is essentially Archie with lively artwork (and doesn't suck).

Herring Murder Mystery

Greg Ford wrote years ago something along the lines of "Columbia cartoons are either just really weird or really bad." I think this one definitely falls into the former, but I still found it entertaining. I love the design and voice of the Puzzlewitz character (this one was his only color appearance). Emery Hawkins and Volus Jones were most likely animators on this one too.

I don't know much about the director of this cartoon, Dun Roman, other than this was the only theatrical short he directed, and he was credited for the story of the Columbia cartoon "Mass Mouse Meeting" (ouch). He also was a director for Jay Ward on Rocky & Bullwinkle.

John Sibley

Here is another animator tribute video I put together of Walt Disney's funniest animator. He was recognized around the studio as the best shorts animator (from the 40s on anyway), and met the incredibly high demand of making a tall, lanky, moronic character believable and endearing. Sadly, I don't think anyone managed to interview Sibley, something Milt Gray lamented to me once.

I uploaded this one to Google as DailyMotion is quite fascist with deleting Disney-owned clips. Edit: Google is fascist too. Let's try Blogger.

Dick Lundy - The Flying Jalopy

My personal favorite of Lundy's directorial efforts at Disney's is probably "The Flying Jalopy". The animation of Ben Buzzard (later Buzz Buzzard at Lantz, when Lundy remade this cartoon as "Wet Blanket Policy") is particularly funny (Mike Barrier cites Art Babbitt as one of the animators of this cartoon). I love the jangly, corny melodrama soundtrack in this one too.

John Gentilella

Inspired by Kevin Langley's post on Pat Matthews, I thought I'd put together this tribute video of scenes animated by John Gentilella ("Johnny Gent") at Famous Studios. As noted in the past, he was highly regarded as the best Popeye animator at the studio, but I included some non-sailor scenes in this montage to break up the monotony. (Though it's one of my darkest secrets that, generally, I prefer Famous to Fleischer as far as Popeye is concerned.)

Clips used in order of appearance:
"The Anvil Chorus Girl" (1944), "Pop-Pie Ala Mode" (1945), "Moving Aweigh" (1944), "Klondike Casanova" (1946), "Philharmaniacs" (1953), "For Better or Nurse" (1945), "Rocket to Mars" (1946), "I'll Be Skiing Ya" (1947), "Sheep Shape" (1946), "Royal Four-Flusher" (1947), "Safari So Good" (1947), and "A Lamb in a Jam" (1945).

Famous Popeye - Shape Ahoy

I haven't posted a lot of Famous Popeye material, so here's a really good one from 1945, with a lot of Jim Tyer animation. This is also the one with Mae Questel voicing Popeye (in Jack Mercer's absence). I love the end shot in this one, it's a nice throwback to something the Fleischers might have done.