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Post by Mandarin Dessert Version 0 on Sept 4, 2022 23:46:32 GMT -5
Never heard of the other ones, but "The Tortoise And The Hare" I have seen recently on Disney+. Yeah, the hare definitely has some Bugs Bunny vibes to him. I also wonder whether the distinctive laugh he had was based off of some real celebrity at the time.
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Post by tirtefaa on Sept 5, 2022 3:21:51 GMT -5
Tex Avery outright admitted to stealing the design of the hare for Bugs Bunny.
Thankfully, Bob Clampett and Robert McKimson redesigned him and gave him a more friendly and diverse face.
Since we're talking about The Tortoise and the Hare as well, the trilogy that Avery and Clampett made for Warner with Bugs are absolute gold.
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Post by Mandarin Dessert Version 0 on Sept 5, 2022 5:04:59 GMT -5
Come to think of it...considering that they made another appearance (this time boxing instead of running), I wonder if they planned to do more shorts with them.
Then again, they probably realized that the joke would have gotten old with the tortoise always winning fairly quickly.
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Post by CMWaters on Sept 5, 2022 6:26:10 GMT -5
Tex Avery outright admitted to stealing the design of the hare for Bugs Bunny. Thankfully, Bob Clampett and Robert McKimson redesigned him and gave him a more friendly and diverse face. Since we're talking about The Tortoise and the Hare as well, the trilogy that Avery and Clampett made for Warner with Bugs are absolute gold. Oh yes. Especially the first one with Bugs reading the title card. And the fact that it made Cecil one of the few rivals to beat Bugs multiple times.
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Post by tirtefaa on Sept 5, 2022 6:56:26 GMT -5
And the fact that it made Cecil one of the few rivals to beat Bugs multiple times. It's the reason I always preferred Avery and Clampett's Bugs compared to Jones and Freleng's Bugs. For years, I thought I hated what Jones did to Daffy without realizing that what he did to Bugs was probably worse since it made Bugs more and more one dimensional. At least with Clampett there was a chance that Bugs might lose, and even on more than one occasion Bugs was the antagonist in the story.
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Post by theironyuppie on Sept 5, 2022 10:17:45 GMT -5
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Post by CMWaters on Sept 11, 2022 15:44:33 GMT -5
Another week, another year. And now we move on to 1935. This year's winner was Disney's "Three Orphan Kittens": proof that cat antics could get attention even in the days before the Internet! Had to improvise a bit here...there's a track with just the audio and one with just the video. It was either that or share the Spanish version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dEpKm5cuv8www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf7Uhbqio1wRunners up were Disney's "Who Killed Cock Robin"...the more "silly" of their entries, and a bit against the upcoming (or just starting) Hayes Code given the Mae West impersonator bird. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GK66CFljA0And Harmon-Ising's "The Calico Dragon"...which I give props for the creativity with fabric in animation, but you can tell they were trying to fight fire with fire with Disney except without the same weapon (Technicolor) www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2frLZ9VLZgNext week, I may have a major opinion about what should have won...but yeah, the Kittens got it this year.
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Post by Mandarin Dessert Version 0 on Sept 12, 2022 15:10:23 GMT -5
Wondering if "Who Killed Cock Robin" had the first instance in a Disney animation with a bird portraying an ethnic stereotype...at least that's what I think regarding the bird who gets questioned first with his black color and the way he talks (since he kinda talks like that African-American hunter who hunted Bugs Bunny in "All This And Rabbit Stew").
Also for years I kinda made the joke regarding the part in the short: "We're gonna hang them all, we're gonna hang them all, we don't know who the guilty is so we're gonna hang them all!" "Oh, this must take place in Texas then."
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Post by CMWaters on Sept 19, 2022 9:56:48 GMT -5
*Punts the stomach bug I've had. Now then...award times again. 1936. Let's see...winner this year was Disney's "The Country Cousin". Good for seeing the design of the food shown, but otherwise just a cutsey story that (and I know this wouldn't have effected choosing back then but still) we'd see similar stories in future shorts (most notably one of the shorts MGM did later with Red). www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t2sAFYGpy8The other nominees were The Old Mill Pond by Harmin-Ising...good way to get the music of the various performers used out there, but save for a few gags here and there didn't really take much with the animation format IMO. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQbbADi600gAnd then...the one I think should have one for ambition alone, being almost double the length of any short (and keep in mind these were the pre-Snow White days): Popeye the Sailor meets Sindbad the Sailor www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIwUpvf2jXY
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Post by Mandarin Dessert Version 0 on Sept 19, 2022 15:05:29 GMT -5
Yeah, "The Country Cousin" was nothing to write home about. Most I remember is the City Mouse going ssssssssh all the time as if he were Peter Avalon.
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Post by CMWaters on Sept 26, 2022 17:26:30 GMT -5
Time to move on to 1937, ever closer to the big change in animation with Snow White. As such, our winner this year is "The Old Mill" (not to be confused with the previous year's "The Old Mill Pond")...which could be considered a test reel for some stuff from that movie. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYEmL0d0lZERunners up were Fleisher's "Educated Fish"...not bad but not sure Academy Award nominee good (also the worm on the hook would be getting SOOOO much art if this was made in the Internet age) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffTw333yfm8And what I heard described as "The Best Disney Short That Disney Didn't Make", "Little Match Girl" (a strong contender against The Old Mill I'd think) www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFFNhvDyiAU
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