tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589696115267272664.post6887020657505766042..comments2024-03-06T00:01:06.897-08:00Comments on Likely Looney, Mostly Merrie: Art Babbitt at Warners...Steven Hartleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13825398324719609394noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589696115267272664.post-53681286261083644272013-03-25T13:32:30.551-07:002013-03-25T13:32:30.551-07:00I think he animated the second half of the dance c...I think he animated the second half of the dance club sequence in Tin Pan Alley Cats. That trumpet-playing cat had a gangly-Goofy quality to his movements which was Art Babbitt's signature character/style at Disney.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09562316835384899091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589696115267272664.post-4745962138131439962012-05-04T17:51:34.069-07:002012-05-04T17:51:34.069-07:00Real interesting stuff. Thanks for posting this!
...Real interesting stuff. Thanks for posting this!<br />Check out my research on animation history as it relates to Art Babbitt - www.babbittblog.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589696115267272664.post-47760292170560052832012-04-27T19:11:35.969-07:002012-04-27T19:11:35.969-07:00Babbitt did not animate in 'A Tale of Two Kitt...Babbitt did not animate in 'A Tale of Two Kitties'. Thad K. posted a breakdown a while back based on an actual draft from Mark Mayerson.Devon Baxterhttp://www.youtube.com/baxterfilmsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589696115267272664.post-17360674940468160762012-04-27T08:11:49.566-07:002012-04-27T08:11:49.566-07:00The information that Babbitt animated the apple-ea...The information that Babbitt animated the apple-eating scene in <i>Coal Black</i> (not really "a fair bit of animation", it's true, since the scene lasts about a second) comes apparently from some interview with Bob Clampett, which is referred to <a href="http://www.goldenagecartoons.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-4219.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Someone posting in that thread also mentions that Babbitt did some uncredited animation for <i>A Tale of Two Kitties</i>.Veikko Suvantohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07826714151185706043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589696115267272664.post-13964223984641114612012-04-25T21:24:57.623-07:002012-04-25T21:24:57.623-07:00"he managed to contribute quite a fair bit of..."he managed to contribute quite a fair bit of animation" is conjecture. Babbitt himself only spoke about animating on one cartoon.Yowphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589696115267272664.post-73475808494054209482012-04-25T17:46:48.700-07:002012-04-25T17:46:48.700-07:00A very interesting and informative blog post. I, f...A very interesting and informative blog post. I, for one, had no idea Art Babbitt worked on <i>Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs</i> – it would be fascinating to know what were the scenes he worked on, apart from the apple-eating scene. It makes me wonder if he also worked on <i>A Tale of Two Kitties</i> – a precursor of sorts of <i>Coal Black</i>, since it was the first cartoon where Rod Scribner employed his "Lichty style" – and whether the name "Babbit" in "Babbit and Catstello", apart from being an obvious pun on Bud Abbott, might have been a reference to him. It doesn't seem unlikely.<br /><br />What does seem unlikely is that Babbitt wouldn't have worked with live action footage in the Daffy Duck striptease sequence, since that sequence is in many parts nearly identical to the lizard's striptease in Tex Avery's 1940 cartoon <i>Cross Country Detours</i>, and that <i>was</i> rotoscoped – the footage of the stripper that was used was even included in one of the Schlesinger Productions Christmas Party newsreels (found on disc 3 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection vol. 6), with Henry Binder doing a distinctly Avery-like take at the sight of the stripper's bare ass. Of course it's possible that Babbitt could have based his animation on the earlier animated sequence instead of the live action footage, but given the vehemence with which he denies this in the Barrier interview as well as his tendency to deny using such footage, which you mentioned, it seems likelier that he simply didn't want to admit to the fact, as if it would somehow lessen his worth as animator.<br /><br />To end in a bit of (hopefully constructive) criticism, you seem to have some problems with punctuation in this post. I've only read a few of your previous posts, so I'm not sure if this is a recurring feature, but about a half or more of the semicolons (;) you use in this post are not used right and should be replaced by commas. In a few places they are all right, but even there they could be replaced by commas without doing any harm to either grammar or style. The semicolon can be an effective punctuation mark when used right, but if you're in doubt whether you should use it in a given place or not (as it seems that you are), I would suggest refraining from using it altogether, as such a large number of misplaced semicolons as you have in this piece tends to hamper seriously the reading of a text (and generally you write in a very readable style). Anyway, congrats on what you've done in this blog so far, and keep up the good work!<br /><br />P.S. Only after writing the above I checked out your "About Me" box; I presume that your problems with punctuation stem from the same source as the mix-ups with words and grammar errors that you write about, so they may not be as easy to solve as I supposed. However, I would suggest getting someone to "clean up" your blog posts before publishing them (which would only entail getting rid of the most glaring errors, so it wouldn't be too much of a task), or then simply avoiding certain punctuation marks, as I wrote above.Veikko Suvantohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07826714151185706043noreply@blogger.com