Flying Elephants

Just catched this animation insert in Laurel and Hardy 1928 short tittled "Flying Elephants". The animation was done by Walter Lantz and Roy Seawright(as credited on IMDB).

"Put-Put Troubles"(1940) mosaic

I don't able to do new mosaics for "Cinderella" right now, but I'm able to do mosaics for shorts.
This time I'll post a mosaic for Donald Duck and Pluto cartoon "Put-Put Troubles"(1940). I want to do mosaic for it for a while...

Riley Thomson wasn't my favorite director -  I think that his cartoons was simply awful(though it have great animation!), but his debut, "Put-Put Troubles" is very good, I think.
It was another type of that early-Burbank lot drafts for shorts with effects animators. Oh, I like such type of drafts very much! I'm imagine if Mr. Perk have more of them...

What is curious about this cartoon is that they don't have any "star" animator on it. I mean, no one have a big amount of footage(though it seems that Judge Whitaker and Lee Morehouse do more than others), and it have some amimators who rarely worked on Pluto or Donald. It's interesting to see Ken Muse animating Pluto instead of Mickey Mouse, or Lee Morehouse worked on Pluto and Donald at the same time!
We have a couple of scenes by Ken Peterson and Larry Clemmons. Ken Peterson was one of the animators who soon became a management guys - he worked as supervisor of animation department(the place they worked on) in 1940 or so. It's like Max Maxwell, who became production manager at the brand-new MGM studio. Clemmons left animation soon to become a writer, because the Disney himself said that he can't be animator because he is left-handed!
It's strange a little bit to see George Kreisl as effects animator - he become the character animator years later. And is it true that Grant Simmons worked on effect object? 
I don't know how to classify effects animators, but I think that Art Fitzpatrick was probably the best effects animator who worked on this short - just look at the water in his scenes!

Hugh Fraser's Eyes

Sorry, no mosaic for today!
Disney animators hardly can do some wacky animation in the Disney's features, but Hugh Fraser definitely try in "Cinderella"!

The sequence was directed by Wilfred Jackson, with Mike Holoboff as assistant director and McLaren Stewart as layout artist. Probably Fraser was supervised by directing animator Ward Kimball.

"Cinderella"(1950) mosaic: Part 5

The last sequence in the kitchen. It's amazing how much scenes was assigned to Phil Duncan. I know that Duncan was good animator, but not as good as he was here! Of course, it was Kimball's obvious influence, but anyway, Duncan show some of his style.
You can heard this familiar lion roar from Disney shorts in the scene 27. I wonder if they still used some of the old sounds in their TV cartoons of today.
The shell game was familiar to the many cartoon fans who watched cartoons by another studios. If I'm wright, the first time we can saw such gag in WB Sniffles cartoon "Sniffles Bells the Cat"(1941).
Another Jaxon sequence without any singing-n-dancing, amazing!

"Cinderella"(1950) mosaic: Part 4

 It's surprising to see some scenes by Fred Moore. His better days is gone, but he's still pretty solid animator. It's interesting that about nine years before Moore was supervising animator on Timothy mouse in "Dumbo"!
Before the draft, I think that Woolie Reitherman worked on Lucifer here, but I was wrong - it's all Kimball!
Once again sequence directed by Jaxon. It don't have any singing and dancing, but I have some action scenes. I saw in his interview that he love fast sequences as well as musical sequences.

"Oh What A Knight"(1928) mosaic

To have a short break from "Cinderella" mosaics, I've done this nice little mosaic with Oswald the Lucky Rabbit with identifications from Mark Kausler. You can hear some of this identifications from Kausler's commentary for this cartoon on Disney's Treasures Oswald set.
The first scenes was done by Hugh Harman, plus one scene done by Les Clark. Rudy Ising also done something. The stars of the show is Ub Iwerks and Rollin Hamilton! I'd say that it was pretty good combination - Hamilton was extremely broad animator, while Iwerks was realistic animator(or even broad at the same time!)
After scene number 14(by Rudy Ising) almost entire cartoon was done by Ub. He have some nice fight scenes in Doug Fairbanks style...

"Cinderella"(1950) mosaic: Part 3

Sorry for the late post, but I post it today anyway!
Before the draft, I think that directing animators was cast by sequences, but I was wrong. During the second part of "Introduction" sequence, animators Marc Davis, Les Clark and Eric Larson worked on Cindy!

Cinderella by Marc Davis is my favorite. I really like all his scenes.I think that if Ollie Johnston worked on Marc's scenes, they can have the same warm feeling. Eric Larson's scenes is pretty solid. But Les Clark was probably the worst animator in this sequence.Cinderella's movements in his scenes is just too mechanical and not natural. Over the years I finally understand why Les Clark wash't the favorite animator of Nine Old Men for animation fans. It seems that Duncan was another broad animator, like Ward Kimball. Kimball's scenes looks extremely good, very broad action.
 And of of course, Norm Ferguson worked on Bruno! No one than Fergy can do that! It's not as cartoony as his Pluto animation of the 30th, but still it's very good animation of cartoon character!