“Watch ski master Huck try his luck,” Huckleberry Hound tells us at home watching a little-cartoon-before-the-cartoon. Note the pursed lips and the half-moon eyes.
Huck sees something. Now comes a head shake. What’s interesting is Huck is not animated in a two-drawing or three-drawing cycle like you’d find in a regular, seven-minute cartoon. As far as I can see, each of these are separate drawings, animated one per frame.
Huck’s elongated eye-stare reminds of an expression in a Mighty Mouse cartoon.
Huck crashes through a cabin without a scratch and relaxes as he gets set to enjoy a Huckleberry Hound cartoon.
The dialogue is unmistakably by Charlie Shows, the animation has some of the earmarks of Carlo Vinci.
super ! love the attention to detail. these bits i remember from watching the show as a kid ( in black & white of course ). keep the good stuff coming-it's being appreciated on the lower east side believe me !
ReplyDeleteWhy are the bumpers so much more fully animated than the regular cartoons?
ReplyDeleteIt only seems to have been like that for one season. I have later ones that move exactly like the cartoons.
DeleteMaybe it's because they were intended to be seen more often, or they were budgeted higher. I honestly don't know.
Maybe because they were shorter than the show's episodes proper.
DeleteI like the colors and the simplicity of the background.
ReplyDeleteSadly Huckleberry Hound was never shown on tv in my Country.