Imagination

Here's the weirdest scene cut I've seen.

Before the cut Clampett anticipates that something weird is going to happen by having the bonds bag throb and shrink into infinity.
Then the hammock rolls up.

The walls begin to quiver

and then morph into a completely different scene, but Hook is still there

The WAY it morphs is really controlled and fun too - it isn't just inbetweened from one background to another as in many independent stoner animated films you see in animation festivals.






and then Hook's take when he discovers he is in a different place is amazing






The 40s was a great time for experimentation and especially in the Clampett unit. Clampett would come up with crazy ideas out of nowhere and just try them - but them execute them so skillfully that they cause a really arresting visual effect that adds to the entertainment.

http://www.cartoonthrills.org/blog/Clampett/45/Hook/ScribnerHook2.mov

This scene leads to another series of genius cuts and accents that show just what a director can do in animation if he has skill, boldness and imagination. Almost any other director would have been just too cautious and conservative to take things to this level of imagination in so short a sequence. I'll post that later

Baby Bottleneck Sitting on Eggs - scene cuts and animator switches - 2

I'm not sure who this animator is. He moves things wonderfully but the drawings are kind of crude.





Here's a real weird cut in the middle of the scene- to Rod Scribner.

Now the animation gets really manic.




This is a great gag - all visual.














This held pose just before Daffy whacks him suggests that the caricatured silhouetted poses of Daffy VS the rounded poses of Porky from the Izzy Ellis scene were planned, rather than a lucky accident.




Now it looks like a different animator again.

This Daffy run/scramble cycle is amazing. It looks disconnected when you see it frame by frame but it moves perfectly at 24x per second.









Another crazy idea in a cartoon full of them.




Tons Of Crazy Action