The Field Mouse (1941)

 

I honestly find the MGM cartoons from the late 30s- early 40s particularly directed by Hugh Harman are very underrated and have good plots and characters to them.

I really like the expressive, fluid, slapstick animation from the 1940s. Alot of smears, very simple but memorable character designs and solid construction in them.

During this scene in The Field Mouse (1941), Grandpa Mouse gets involved in the horrors of the wheat thresher filled with machine gears. This is a great scene in particular and almost feels cinematic in a way.

Sometimes these reaction shots when a character experiences a dangerous and climatic scenario especially in an animated film, squash and stretch usually aim for that purpose to make it more amusing and lively even if the character doesn't have too much of a personality trait it can still have human instincts. 

Some very underappreciated and unique camera angles.

This a good tool whenever to create animated scenes like this below. I like this tiny rodent falling and we get to see drawings that looks link he's shrinking but in reality (for this cartoon) he's falling trying to rescue his grandfather.

I like how all the wheat sorta forms into a spiral.  

Like some other truly likeable Harman cartoons like Peace on Earth, The Hungry Wolf, and The Bookworm Turns, this isn't going for funny comedic gag-heavy insanity like Tom and Jerry and Tex Avery's shorts but in my opinion, in terms of the stories, the animation, and the emotion these are one of my favorite cartoons from the classic MGM studio.

Especially if they're short, they can still be very amusing and offer good moments in them. 

That's what's so pleasurable about the naturalism and human reality we're currently living through today. Art can speak clearly as we ourselves can speak to others honestly and truly. That's what so unique and special about art. It can express what we both feel and think about the world around us. 

I like to honor what I said with a few screencaps from Gone With The Wind (1939). 

Besides it being almost 4 hours this has some of the best environments I ever seen in a movie. I would be completely astonished if I only seen all of the lesser complex bits of the film entirely because it grasps alot of emotional depth and the journeys of the world.