Saturday 20 April 2019

Giddyup Chair

Not all the cartoons-between-the-cartoons on the Huckleberry Hound Show involved a circus. Here’s one set on a patio, with the background art by Fernando Montealegre.

Lounging Pixie and Dixie are apprised by Huck that a Pixie and Dixie cartoon is coming up. The meece quickly escape from Mr. Jinks.



Jinks slides into the scene and decides to rest in the patio chair. It closes on him. There are some good, simple expressions on Jinks.



Jinks won’t miss the cartoon, though. “Giddyup, chair!” he cries as the chair gallops in a little cycle with a clacking sound in the background.



I have no idea who animated this. It wasn’t one of the regular animators from the 1958-59 season so I’m presuming H-B Enterprises farmed it out. The characters are drawn with wide, open mouths, but not quite the way Carlo Vinci animated them.

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  1. I love the background as well!

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    1. I wish I could snip the whole thing together. The flatness reminds me of his work for Mike Lah at MGM.

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  2. Looks like Don Williams' animation to me, Yowp. Thanks for all the great early H-B Enterprises posts.

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    1. Thanks, Mark. I've spotted another one that looks like him.
      I like his odd eye shapes in the Augie cartoons he did at HB.

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