Jinks thinks he’s outsmarted the meeces. The jack-in-the-box will open up at the top, so he’ll duck down and his head will be beside it when he flips the latch. Wrong again, Jinks.
There’s a cycle of four drawings that fades out to end the vignette. What’s unusual about this cycle is one drawing is held for three frames and the other three are held for two frames. But it’s a different drawing held longer in each cycle. In the re-creation below, we’ve held the same drawing three times. It has been slowed down. Sorry for the TV bug.
And it’s on to the next Pixie and Dixie cartoon.
The wide mouth on Jinks above should be a give-away that this was animated by Carlo Vinci (the head moves in Vinci-esque angles when Jinks talks). I’m pretty sure the backgrounds are by Fernando Montealegre.
Nice post."TV bugs" stopped bugging me long ago. All my cartoon watching as a kid was on a small b&w TV without much of a clear picture. Now it has to be hi-def /crystal clear / 4k / perfectly cropped etc. or else it's unwatchable. (DJA)
ReplyDeleteI grew up in the '60s, when channels didn't need to mar transmissions by advertising themselves with their positioning identity superimposed on programming. It is not part of the cartoon.
DeleteIt'd be no different than someone giving a radio station's call-letters in the background continually while playing music.
Fortunately, nine of the stations we could pick up came in clearly (the NET station was maybe the worst). There was a tenth that was actually out of reception range but a snowy signal would reach this side of the border periodically and showed old Buddy cartoons. Better reception would never have helped them.
It's even worse than the 80s and 90s, where a big fat bug appeared onscreen for about 10 seconds!
Delete(Also just as bad is whenever a channel (not MeTV Toons thankfully) puts their credits in SPLIT SCREEN!)
Hi-def broadcasting does mean that there are no more snowy pictures, but it also means that unless your reception via antenna is perfect, you get nothing--no sound, no picture. Is that better? It means that weather may never get you Indiana stations in Milwaukee like I used to sometimes receive during sunspot activity.
Delete