You probably wonder who these two characters might be.
They are part of an ensemble cast from the Disney 1945 Donald Duck short Duck Pimples.
Here's what Wikipedia says about the film:
Donald Duck's imagination, enhanced by scary stories on the radio and in books, moves him into a seemingly real crime world, which ultimately turns out to be imaginary. Donald's dream is enhanced by the backgrounds that abruptly change each time a new character appears in it.
This is a very weird Donald short, and I love it. Fantastic fluid character animation. Milt Kahl animated Leslie J. Clark, a hot irons salesman. In these terrific rough animation drawings he pulls a whole bunch of hot irons out of his suitcase...and because there are hot, they are also hard to handle.
Really great animation, check out the film on Youtube or on one of the Donald Duck DVD compilations.
Freddie Moore also animated on this short, but for some reason didn't get any credit.
The 1945 theatrical poster.
Very unusual, indeed. Is the girl from Moore?
ReplyDeleteThe girl is mostly Milt Kahl. So good!!
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Of course, I would love it! We must to find a way... by the way, here's my mail so we keep in touch: lucasnine@gmail.com
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I think the Virgil Partch connection has something to do with it:
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It's a cariacture of Les Clark.
ReplyDeleteLes' middle name was James.
DeleteThat's awesome. Thanks for the info!
DeleteYou're right Andreas, Milt was the best at animating hands.
ReplyDeleteWhat did Freddy Moore animate on this short, if he didn't get credit? Is it the girl? She looks very much like a Freddy Moore girl and bears some resemblance to Red Hot Riding Hood.
ReplyDeleteAwesome animation, and a great Donald Duck short. Definitely a favorite of mine. First got to know it through a Troldspejlet* broadcast behind the scenes of Aladdin where they first show multiple clips from other Disney animated films and a rare clip of Walt Disney being interviewed.
*Troldspejlet is a Danish TV show and the title means in english Troll mirror, which is a reference to the object in Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale Snow Queen
Leslie J Clark, huh?
ReplyDeleteI have noticed the names of animators in some shorts before. This newspaper in Hockey Homicide has names like "Killer Kahl" and "Terror Sibley"
https://i.imgur.com/geaIkB1.png
DeletePossibly my favorite Donald Duck cartoon. Seems to be influenced by the madcap work of Tex Avery more than anything else. Though, if anything, it's even wilder than Avery's MGM output.
ReplyDeleteI adore Duck Pimples! Always loved the animation.
ReplyDeleteThe amount of redheads in animation has always struck me. I guess they visually contrast nayurally against the background.
ReplyDeleteLeslie J. Clark... I knew in an instant that that was a shout-out to animator Les Clark.
ReplyDeleteMarc Davis worked on this as well - he mentions Virgil Partch as doing story on it - here's a couple of quotes: "When he (Virgil Partch) came back after the war, he really took off on the cartooning thing. I did do the animation for a story of his called Duck Pimples. It wasn’t a great effort [laughter], and it was certainly very different!"
ReplyDeleteHere's another quote by Marc about 'Duck Pimples': "I remember he had Virgil Partch and we did kind of a smart-ass picture, really. Walt didn’t like it... It was Duck Pimples or something like that. It was a Donald Duck thing and it was pretty awful. Walt did it, really, just to say, “Well, the guys want to do it.” It was bad. As I say, there was nothing to recommend it except if you find a single drawing funny sometimes. There must have been some single drawings in there that were funny."
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