Acme Hour-7/16/01

[Thad Komorowski]

"Hamateur Night"
"Switchin' Kitten" (MGM, Tom & Jerry)
"The Night Watchman"
"The Football Touchdowner"-redrawn (Fleischer, Popeye)
"Wild and Woolfy" (MGM, Droopy)
"Little Orphan Airedale"

-Thad:D

[Sveven Dvorking]

<<<Hamateur Night>>>
You spelled it right, but that title probably gets the award for being the most frequent WB title to be spelled wrong.

<<<The Night Watchman>>>
I am assuming that still has the restored titles.

My 200th post!

[DR. BELCH]

"Hamateur Night"
One of the first appearances of Egghead (who appears to have a sizable family). In the scene with the swami the screen seemed to have a strange sort of blurred effect that looked almost 3-D...like the dude was looking right at the audience. I don't know if that was intentional, but it was a nice--and slightly creepy--effect. The emcee sounded a bit like George (Junior's lil' friend). One of Avery's most fast-paced and riotous pieces.

"Switchin' Kitten" (MGM, Tom & Jerry)
One of the better Dietches; the layered backgrounds also lend a 3-D effect...though I never cared for the music/SFX in the T&Js this man directed. Cute to see Tom freak out at the barking cat, or at Jerry's parody of the famous MGM lion logo.

"The Night Watchman"
Jones' first effort. A fair cartoon, but I liked his first short with Spaniel and Boxer ("Dog-Gone Modern") better.

"The Football Touchdowner" (Fleischer)
Another story about when Popeye first tasted spinach, during a peewee football game. Notable for seeing a young Bluto, Olive, and Wimpy. Dig those weird football calls! Love the bit where Swee'pea eats spinach and clocks Popeye a good one.

[Argus Sventon]

I had most of Monday off, and didn't get to post this then, because Toon Zone out of order.

Hamateur Night Egghead "Dubbed" MM

MGM Tom and Jerry Switchin Kitten Deitch

The Night Watchman BR MM "Dubbed"

The Football Toucher Downer redrawned. evidence of 3-D backgrounds. Popeye 55-49 over Bluto.

Wild and Woofy Droopy

Little Orphan Airdale BR MM "Dubbed" LT

Update:

Argus is still in Georgia. Trip looks bleak. Having good time otehrwise. Sorry for typos. in hurry.

[Jon Cooke]

Hi Argus, hope you're enjoying your trip. Thad had already posted the 7/16 Acme Hour contents (guess you didn't see it)... so what I did was merged your thread with his.


-Jon

[Bobby B]

Originally posted by Argus Sventon
The Football Toucher Downer redrawn. evidence of 3-D backgrounds.


I have the B & W version. No 3-D backgrounds.

[Patrick McCart]

That blurred scene might have been a bad Technicolor negative combining.

Sometimes, when the 3 Tech negatives are re-combined to form the full color image, the registration of the 3 images might not match up 100% due to improper printing.

This "effect" can be seen on the Wizard of Oz DVD and Anchors Aweigh DVD (Although, the latter really suffers from bad match-up while the former only has about 3 seconds of the movie having this defect.)

The "proper" term for this is called fringing. It's really evident on early color processes before Technicolor.