Late Night Black & White - 5/21/01

[PlopKat]

As was posted earlier, one BIG surprise aired tonight! Here's everything that was shown:


"You Ought To Be In Pictures" (WB)
"On With The New" (Fleischer/Betty Boop)
"The Pygmy Hunt" (MGM/Captain & the Kids)
"Wild Elephinks" (Fleischer/Popeye)
"PIed Piper Porky" (WB)
"The Hungry Goat" (Famous/Popeye)


Comments:

"You Ought To Be In Pictures" sure sounded like it was time-compressed, like it was on Porky's Golden Jubilee tape.

"On With The New" was an NTA print. I'm sure no one is shocked about that.

-PlopKat

[BobChief]

...to see a post-Fleischer Popeye! They NEVER show these!

Seeing another PD Boop just makes me madder :mad: COME ON CN, call Paramount
and get the still-in-copyright Republic Pictures Boops!

[Jon Cooke]

I like "The Hungry Goat", it has a lot of funny interacting-with-the-audience gags. I especially like the kid in the audience who says: "Awww, why doesn't Popeye eat his spinach an' sock him one!" I was thinking the same thing, Popeye should have beat the crap out of that darn goat! :p



-Jon

[J Lee]

The last year of the B&W Fleischers and the first year of the Famous Popeyes was when the studio was at its "Warner-est," probably due to the influence of ex-WBers Pierce, George Manuel and Cal Howard and the return home of several of Max's early-30s animators (Natwick, Culhane, Eugster), who were able to handle the faster pace the Warner's style demanded. The WBers were gone by the time "The Hungry Goat" was made, as were Natwick and Culhane, but the attitude of faster animation and quicker gags survived for about another two to three years before everything started falling apart.

"The Hungry Goat" borrows a lot from Tex Avery with the audience interaction, while the "frozen pose/quick cuts" Dan Gordon and Joe Orilio came up with for the middle of the cartoon is probably the most radical thing Famous Studio ever did, since it's about two steps beyond the "pose-and-smear" animation Chuck Jones used in "The Dover Boys" (and got in trouble for) a few months earlier.

[lislebartman]

While I was disappointed in not seeing any B & W Looney Tune one-shots, I loved seeing "The Hungry Goat" in its original B & W form! That was a complete surprise. Now how about "Puss 'N' Booty" or "Saps in Chaps"?

[John Doe]

Originally posted by lislebartman
While I was disappointed in not seeing any B & W Looney Tune one-shots, I loved seeing "The Hungry Goat" in its original B & W form! That was a complete surprise. Now how about "Puss 'N' Booty" or "Saps in Chaps"?

I agree! Another one would be 1941's "Haunted Mouse", the first one-shot LT. :cool:

[Inkspot]

"The Pygmy Hunt" eh?
so this was unedited?