Tick Tock Tuckered Daffy Shoots Moon

 

Been very icky for the past few weeks. Personally I don't feel comfortable talking about my regular ol' self, but I'm getting sick and tired of almost everything in general. But that doesn't stop me from watching stuff from the 1920s-50s.

Here's a very cuddly and soft escape from the past from Warner Bros., it's Tick Tock Tuckered (1944) starring Porky Pig & Daffy Duck, except it isn't brought that way and has this utterly cool and savage scene of Daffy getting fed up by the full moon, shoots it and something creatively unexpected happens. 

Of course this amazing scene was animated by the one and only Rod Scribner. One of my favorite animators. This was Daffy at his cutest, but also most threatening as Scribner is known for animating characters with that angry facial expression.

The animation here is rubbery but it works well with the overall gag they're going for in this particular scene.

Right after he shoots Moon, it suddenly drops like a big drip of rain. Daffy is immediately in shock.

We get ourselves some wacky drawings.  

This drawing stays on screen the longest. I find these scenes to be wonderful since it feels so different than "limited" animation where the characters don't move impulsively.

Daffy then breaks the 4th wall by saying "Unbelievable, isn't it?" 

This is a remake of Porky's Badtime Story (1937). Still directed by Bob Clampett, there was different gags in that cartoon, and instead of Daffy Duck, it was Gabby Goat.

In the original, the certain scene with the moon disturbing Porky's sleep is by tying the window curtain to his bed, causing a wreck and an accident.  

Here's the full scene in action.

 

Credits to Sakugabooru as I found the clip from there, only slightly trimmed.

Bacall To Arms (1946) Cartoon Insanity

 

The title of the post is not a joke. Cartoon Insanity will be a series of posts throughout the upcoming future. 

There's this cartoon I've been thinking about for months. The animation is so rubbery and vivid that I need to talk about it.

It's called Bacall to Arms (1946) it's a Looney Tunes short planned by Bob Clampett, but was finished by Art Davis. As you can tell by what might be happening well...

Right away we get our first reference to Metro Goldwyn Mayer, one of the kings of Golden Age animation. What is this?! The lion is screeching while I guess his baby cub is biting onto his tail. What is he doing with his foot? This is definitely something Clampett or either Art Davis would approve.

 

Various other gags appear before the feature film starts in the movie theater. After that is some stellar frame shots of actress Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart.

This was an attempt to reenact To Have and Have Not (1944).

I like the colors scheme in these scenes. It's not the usual typical clean black and white colors we get in the actual real movies.

The best moments are The Wolf's reactions. He's in similar vain to the wolf in Red Hot Riding Hood (1943) directed by Tex Avery. I'm highly sure that Clampett and possibly Davis loved Avery's MGM cartoons. 

Incredible drawings!

 

I would've loved to see a fully length short film of these two characters, maybe even just the art style, that would've been cool and inspiring. 

There's this walk cycle I admire of Bacall with her cigar and there's flames in her heels.

We get to see more funny and janky movements of the wolf's reactions. I'm definitely thinking Rod Scribner did alot of these scenes.

When The Wolf acts more enthusiastic, there's these simple linear gradient backgrounds. 

 

And also a ton of smears.

While I love the comedic energy, the designs and the more toned-down scenes of the live action style characters, the rest of it is not as great or thrilling as I hoped it would be. This may be just a standard cartoon with not much cohesion but it's still got some funny moments, despite the re-used animation from another Looney Tunes short almost a decade prior.

Seriously it feels like the movie theater is packed with 1930s style characters and 1940s characters at the same time.