Some Cartoons For Saturday Morning #65

Hello my friends and Happy Saturday Morning. Once again that means it is time for classic cartoons.

Today's first cartoon is one of those Speedy Gonzales and Daffy Duck films of the 1960's. While many cartoon fans write these off as the weakest Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, I personally consider them guilty pleasures. There is no way I would put them on the same level as the Warners cartoons of the 1930's, 40's and 50's, but for what it is worth I enjoy the films on their own level. So enjoy, Assault and Peppered (1965).

The reason the Van Beuren cartoons are not as well remembered as many other studios is because they lack the big star characters seen in other studio's cartoons. Being aware of this the studio tried to bolster their popularity by using characters that had already been popularized elsewhere. One of these attempts was to make a series of cartoons starring the characters of the popular radio show, Amos 'n' Andy. To make sure these films would be a success, the studio hired Freedom Gosden and Charles Correll (who created the show and voiced the characters on radio) to voice the famous radio characters in these cartoons. However the movies were not the success the studio planned on and instead of making the 13 originally planned only two cartoons were made. This lead to legal trouble, between the studio and the actors. The Heinl Radio Business Letter discussed this in 1935.

"A suit for $181,995 for breach of contract against Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, known as 'Amos 'n' Andy' , and the National Broadcasting Company was disclosed in Supreme Court in New York yesterday when the plaintiff, Van Buern Corporation, filed a note of issue for a jury trial. The defendants have put in counter claims for a total of $254,000, it was revealed by the plaintiff's attorneys.

"The complaint, according to the attorneys, alleges breach  of a contract to make thirteen animated cartoons which were to be synchronized with the voices of 'Amos 'n' Andy'. The contract was made in 1933 and only two cartoons were completed, it is alleged.

"The counterclaims of $190,000 by Gosden and Correll and $64,000 by the broadcasting company, were based on charges of failure by the plaintiff corporation to fulfill requirements, the attorney's said."

Next up is one of these two cartoons, Rassling Match (1934). The following is an exhibitor's review of the movie from The Motion Picture Herald.

"Rasslin' Match, The: Amos and Andy - This is one of the best cartoons I have ever seen. There is only one mistake, the cartoon is entirely too crude but will probably improve. Amos and Andy do the talking and just like the radio. This caused much entertainment here and was well liked. Running time: 11 minutes. - J.J. Medford, Orpheum Theatre, Oxford, N.C. General Patronage."


    

Next is a classic Donald Duck cartoon, Cured Duck (1945). What makes Donald such an appealing character is that he is instantly relatable. It is hard for anyone not to see at least a little of themselves in this short tempered duck and this film shows Donald at his easiest to relate to.





Paul Terry referred to the Heckle and Jeckle cartoons as the best he ever made. I certainly agree. What makes these films so extremely entertaining is that Heckle and Jeckle are such appealing characters that simply make the cartoons a joy to watch. The movies are also full of fast paced slapstick that is full of the energy that makes cartoons of the era so much fun. Next is one of my favorite Heckle and Jeckle cartoons, so enjoy, Free Enterprise (1948).

Next comes one of my favorite silent-era Mutt and Jeff cartoons, On Strike (1920).

Film Fun, 1918

The last cartoon for this morning is the second Blue Racer film, Support Your Local Serpent (1972).

Thank you for joining me come back next week for more animated treasures. Peace, love and cartoons.

-Michael J. Ruhland

Some Cartoons For Saturday Morning #29

Happy Saturday morning again my friends. That is right it is time for more classic cartoons. 

We start off with a classic Betty Boop cartoon, Ha Ha Ha (1934). Before the Fleshier Brothers made Betty Boop cartoons they made a series of silent cartoons called Out of the Inkwell. This cartoon certainly takes influence for that series. In the beginning of the cartoon we see in live action an inkwell and a board to draw on. From this a live action hand comes and draws Betty on that board. This is how Koko the Clown entered in most of the Out of the Inkwell cartoons. Speaking of Koko, he plays a supporting role in this cartoon. He actually was a supporting player in many of the Betty Boop cartoons of the 1930's. The following is an exhibitors review from the Motion Picture Herald (dated May 12, 1934). "Ha! Ha! Ha!: Betty Boop cartoons - This is another good cartoon from Paramount featuring Betty Boop and assisted by Koko. Betty as the dentist and Koko as the patient are very funny and will please everyone in your audience. Just the kind of entertainment we like and want more of them. Running time eight minutes. - J.J. Medford, Orpheum Theatre, Oxford, NC, General Patronage."


Next comes the last of the great series of cartoons of the 1940's teaming Donald Duck and Goofy together, Crazy With the Heat (1947). These cartoons are delightful all the way, with Goofy's obliviousness to his circumstances (however bad they may be) playing off of Donald's insane temper. This just gets Donald more and more annoyed as the films get funnier and funnier. This is a rare Disney cartoon short directed by Bob Carlson, who mostly worked as an animator by the studio. With how funny this film is that certainly seems a shame. A review in The Film Daily called this cartoon, "Exceptionally good." I can't argue with that.




Now comes a really late Merrie Melodies cartoon staring Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales, Mucho Locos (1966). This cartoon is what is known as a cheater meaning it uses clips from various older cartoons, similar to a TV clip show. One of the clips used is from Robin Hood Daffy (1958). Since in that cartoon Daffy co-starred with Porky and the pig appears in the clip, this marks the last use of Porky in a Looney Tunes or Merrie Melody. Despite this he doesn't say a word. The last cartoon where the pig played a major part was Corn on the Cop (1965). This cartoon is the only Warners cartoon in which Herman Stein does the music. Stein was much more prolific as a composer from live action movies and TV. This cartoon hardly marks the characters' finest hour, but it is entertaining in a weird way.




Since I mentioned the Out of the Inkwell series when talking about our first cartoon, I feel it is appropriate to end with an Out of the Inkwell cartoon. So enjoy, Bedtime (1923).






Thank you for joining me come back for more classic cartoons next week.

-Michael J. Ruhland


   

Some Cartoons For Saturday Morning #18

Hello my friends and happy Saturday Morning. Once again it is time to look at some classic cartoons. 

We start our cartoons off with one of Disney's classic Silly Symphony cartoons and one of the most important ones. This cartoon, Babes in the Woods (1932) was Disney's first real fairytale adaption. Walt had done some films in the silent era that transported fairy tales to modern day for broad comedy, but that was not the same thing. According to JB Kaufman and Russell Merritt's indispensable book Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies: A Companion to the Classic Cartoon Series this cartoon possibly marks the first Silly Symphony for legendary animator Art Babbitt, who here animates a dwarf sticking his tongue out at the witch and her chasing him immediately after. Also animating here is one of the future Nine Old Men, Les Clark who animates the early scenes of the dwarfs in their village. The look of this film is certainly simplistic when compared with later Symphonies, but it is delightful on its own merits. However that simple-ness  is completely understandable as they had been very few Disney cartoons starring human characters before this one.                     The film was directed by Burt Gillett, who the very next year would direct the most famous Silly Symphony The Three Little Pigs (1933). 

Next comes one of the strangest, funniest, most creative and all around best Felix the Cat cartoons. To say this is one of the best Felix the Cat cartoons is to say it is one of the best cartoons of the silent era. So enjoy, Comicalamities (1928). By the way the title of this cartoon would later be reused as an episode title for The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat (1995-1997) TV series.




Next comes the one of the great Warner Brothers cartoons featuring a little African boy named Inki. These films were all directed by Chuck Jones and were enhanced by the presence of one of his most other worldly characters, the Minah Bird. He posses almost superhuman powers yet always looks unassuming walking around slowly to the tune of Mendelson's Fingal's Cave Overture, Op. 26. Around this time Chuck had not yet begun his own style of directing, so while the characters and humor are unique the pacing and look of the film still feels like a Disney cartoon from the era. According to Chuck Jones when he made his first Inki cartoon (The Little Lion Hunter (1939)), producer Leon Schlesinger hated it. However it ended up going over well with audiences, so Leon would tell Chuck to make another one saying that he changed his mind about the first film. The third cartoon in the series is possibly my favorite and here is that film. So enjoy Inki and the Minah Bird (1943).




Now is one of my favorite of the Fleischer Brothers silent Out of the Inkwell cartoons. The best of these cartoons hold their own with any of the great fully live action comedy shorts being made during the silent era. Still this film does mix animation and live action well before Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988). The live action animator Koko the clown is combating with is producer Max Fleischer himself, who has proven in these films to be quite a good silent comedian in his own right. So enjoy  

Invisible Ink (1921).








     







We end with a short from The New Three Stooges (1965-1966) TV show. The Stooges themselves provide their own voices and appear in the live action wrap around segments. So enjoy The Three Nuts.



Thanks for joining me, come back next week for more classic cartoons. Until then peace, love and cartoons.

-Michael J. Ruhland

How a Colonel Heeza Liar Cartoon is Made

John R. Bray's Colonel Heeza Liar cartoons are often considered to be the first cartoon series with reoccurring characters. The series began in 1913 and while one cannot say he enjoyed the same phenomenal success that Felix the Cat or Mickey Mouse would in the 1920's, the character and series certainly enjoyed quite a bit of popularity. In the 1910's, unlike today, audiences were amazed at the fact they could go to a movie theater and see drawings move. Many people wondered how this could be accomplished. The following 1916 article from Film Fun magazine attempts to explain how these films could come to be.



As a bonus here is one of the Colonel's best known cartoons, Colonel Heeza Liar At The Bat (1915).



-Michael J. Ruhland 

Bobby Bumps Comics

The Bobby Bumps cartoon series was one of the best animated series of the 1910's, often providing clever gags that were ahead of their time.

To advertise these cartoons in the magazine, Film Fun, appeared some comic strips featuring the character. I have three of those to share today. Notice the first one is an adaption of the animated short, Bobby Bump and the Storks (1916), while the second is an adaption of Bobby Bumps Starts a Lodge (1916), and the third is an adaption of Bobby Bumps at the Circus (1916). The first two strips were from 1916, while the last strip is from 1917.

As a bonus treat here are the three cartoons those strips were based on.

Some Cartoons For Saturday Morning #7

Happy Saturday Morning again my friends. Again that means it is time to share some more classic cartoons.

To start off with let us enjoy some coyote and roadrunner. As well as The Bugs Bunny Show, these two Also had their own TV show made up of theatrical shorts with new bridging sequences, appropriately called The Road Runner Show (1966-1968). Most episodes would start with a coyote and roadrunner cartoon, then shift into a Tweety and Sylvester cartoon and then end with any Looney Tune or Merrie Melodie. The bridging sequences all were quick black out gags with the coyote and roadrunner. These sequences were created by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, who produced the theatrical Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies from 1964-1967 (Update: I wasn't completely right about this as you can see by looking at the comments). The Freleng from DePatie-Freleng was Friz Freleng who had worked on Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies from the very beginning and helped create such classic characters as Porky Pig, Yosemite Sam and Sylvester. The show also has one of the catchiest theme songs ever, a little ditty written by Barbara Cameron. Barbara had been a popular singer in the 1940's, even being a regular vocalist on the Moon River (1930-1970) radio show (another vocalist on that show was an obscure little singer named Doris Day, just getting her start). The following video includes the theme song as well as some of the bridging sequences.

    

Speaking of Looney Tunes, I have always felt one of the most underrated Looney Tunes directors is Norm McCabe. Most of his Looney Tunes (the ones he directed not the ones with him as an animator) are overlooked partly because all of them are in black and white, but also because most of them are full of World War 2 references. However his cartoons are truly funny and often laugh out loud funny. Our next cartoon is a fantastic example of how great of a cartoon director he was. It is also one of his most World War 2 themed. This is also one of the few Looney Tunes around this time, that did not feature Porky Pig. It was a rule throughout the mid to late 1930's that Porky had to be in every Looney Tunes cartoon. In the early 1940's this rule was starting to get broken sometimes, though Porky still appeared in the majority of Looney Tunes. So without further ado here is, The Ducktators (1942).

Next let us look at one of the funniest of Disney's Goofy cartoons, Hold That Pose (1950). In his must read book The Disney Films Leonard Maltin even refers to this as "one of the funniest cartoons ever made." It certainly is a great one. It is also a perfect example of what director Jack Kinney did best, fast paced gag filled cartoons. Anyone who thinks of Disney cartoons as nothing but cute and sweet should really look at how laugh out loud funny and fast paced Kinney's cartoons are. In this cartoon Goofy tries his hand at being a wildlife photographer. Donald Duck had previously done this in two cartoons, Donald's Camera (1941) and Clown of the Jungle (1947).

During the 1910's many animated cartoons were heavily inspired by newspaper comics. Not only did many cartoons feature characters from comic strips, but many felt like a Sunday comic that moved. A perfect example of this is Krazy Kat Goes a Wooing (1916), which featured George Herriman's famous comic strip character Krazy Kat. Notice that the opening title card states in big letters "A Cartoon by George Herriman" and then in smaller letters "Animated by Leon Searl." Truth is Herriman probably had little input on this cartoon.






Not all animated short films for the golden age of cartoons were silly and funny. Some were very consciously artistic and set out to make political and social commentary. One of the best is Berthold Bartosch's L'idee (1932). In this French film a beautiful and pure idea is shown in the form of a naked woman. However everyone tries to make the idea into what they want it to be instead of accepting it for what it is. This message is just as powerful and true today as it was when the film was originally made.




Stay tooned next Saturday for some more classic cartoons. Until then peace love and cartoons.

-Michael J. Ruhland

Some Cartoons For Saturday Morning #6

Hello again my friends it is once again Saturday Morning, the morning of all things cartoony. So what do you say we look at some more classic cartoons? 

For Saturday morning where better to start with than the kings of Saturday morning, Hanna-Barbera. And if we are going to start with Hanna-Barbera where better to start than with what is possibly my favorite Hanna-Barbera TV series, The Quick Draw McGraw Show (1959-1962). Like The Huckleberry Hound Show (1958-1962) before it, a Quick Draw episode was made up of three cartoon shorts, these would include a cartoon with Quick Draw himself, a cartoon with Snooper and Blabber and a cartoon with Augie Doggie and Augie Daddy. Also like Huck's show, this series also featured short little segments between the main cartoons. Here are some of those.



Like The Quick Draw McGraw Show, The Bugs Bunny Show (1960-1968) was made up of multiple short cartoons, the difference being that these shorts weren't new, but cartoons that had already been shown theatrically. This show also had little short segments between the main cartoons and these were made specifically for the show. Here are a few of those. Notice that some of the dialogue between Porky Pig and Charlie Dog is taken directly out of the theatrical cartoon short Often an Orphan (1949). According to Jerry Beck and Will Friedwald's indispensable book, Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Brothers Cartoons the Porky Pig and Charlie Dog bumpers come from the 11th episode of the show (original air date: 12/20/60) which was directed by Looney Tunes legends Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng themselves. The short cartoons in that episode included Two's a Crowd (1950), All-a-Bird (1950) and Hasty Hare (1952). The bumpers with Bugs animating are from the 19th episode of the show (original air date: 2/14/61), also directed by Chuck and Friz. The classic shorts in that episode included Mutiny on the Bunny (1950), Punch Trunk (1953) and Fast and Furry-ous (1949). So without further ado enjoy these great bumpers.  

 

UPA was one of the most unique and artistically daring studios of the golden age of animation. They were a studio that refused to follow the other studios' reliance on funny animals and slapstick violence but instead set out to create short films that showed how animation could do more things than the average cartoon short was doing. In my opinion one of the best films from the studio is The Unicorn in the Garden (1953). This short was an adaption of a short story by James Thurber. Stephan Bosustow (head of the studio) wanted to make a feature film adaption of a Thurber story, but couldn't get the funding. He asked director William Hurtz to make a short film based on a Thurber story. Hurtz chose The Unicorn in the Garden because it relied on human characters instead of animals. Hurtz studied the work of Thurber extremely closely for this film, but Bosustow was still disappointed and refused to enter it for an Academy Award. I respectfully disagree feeling that this film is a fantastic adaption. I am not the only one as it ended up as #48 in Jerry Beck's excellent book The 50 Greatest Cartoons.




Next up let's look at a classic Popeye cartoon, Shiver Me Timbers! (1934). It is a common criticism to say all Popeye cartoons were the same storyline over and over. However when one looks at all the classic cartoons, they find many that plain old don't fit into the formula of Popeye and Bluto fighting over Olive. This is one of those and it sure is a unique and creative cartoon, as well as tons of fun. It is important to note as you watch these early Popeye cartoons, despite Dave Fleischer being credited as director, the title is not completely true. True he was the overall supervisor and his imprint can be felt. However what we would consider today as the actual directing was usually done by the first animator listed, in this case that is Willard Bowski.  This cartoon features Popeye, Olive and Wimpy aboard a ghost ship. Popeye and Olive would later board another ghost ship in the final theatrical Popeye short, Spooky Swabs (1957). Still I argue that this 1934 black and white short did the idea better.

 


Next up is a Peter Potamus cartoon from The Peter Potamus Show (1964-1965) called Hurricane Hippo. This show only ran one season, but I admit to having a fondness for it.

 


Let us finish with one of Earl Hurd's great silent Bobby Bumps shorts. So here is Bobby Bumps and the Stork (1916). Earl Hurd was one of the creators of cel animation, and though not well remembered his Bobby Bumps cartoons are certainly some of the great animated films of the silent era. During the talkie era, Hurd would serve as a writer on Walt Disney's feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).



Thank you for joining me. Stay tooned next week for more classic cartoons. Until then peace, love and cartoons.


-Michael J. Ruhland

Some Cartoons for Saturday Morning #5

Happy Saturday Morning again my friends. It is time to look at some more classic cartoons.

To start off we have one of Walt Disney's silent Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons. One thing I love about these early silent Disney cartoons. is that they broke rules Walt Disney would later place on his cartoons. While his later animated cartoons would eliminate such ideas as parts of the body coming off and going back on feeling that they cut into the believability of the characters. This cartoon though is full of those type of gags. Hugh Harmon was one of the animators on this film. He would later direct a Looney Tunes cartoon entitled Bosko the Doughboy (1931) that would be quite similar in terms of story and gags. So without further ado here is Great Guns (1927).




Now for two of those great bumpers that played between the main cartoons for The Huckleberry Hound Show (1958-1962).

Next up is a classic Looney Tunes cartoon. You may be familiar with Chuck Jones' great Charlie Dog and Porky Pig cartoons. Well in many ways this Bob Clampett film is the precursor to those. Like in those cartoons here an obnoxious dog is trying to get Porky to adopt him. Though the design and voice are quite different, the personality makes him a clear precursor to Charlie. This film does not feel like a precursor of things to come though instead it is a great film in its own right. Notice how many of the backgrounds are in fact live action photographs. Clampett would later use the same technique in another great black and white Looney Tune, Eatin' on the Cuff or The Moth Who Came to Dinner (1942). Also notice how Porky's apartment is called Termite Terrace. Termite Terrace was the affectionate name for the building where many of the great black and white Looney Tunes were made. So enjoy Porky's Pooch (1941).




Next is a really clever and fun silent Felix the Cat cartoon, All Puzzled (1925). This is one of the shorter Felix cartoons, only running about three minutes. At this time many cartoon shorts were still heavily inspired by comic strips and this one is no exception. It feels like it could have easily been a Sunday comic strip. Like many of the Felix the Cat cartoons of the silent era, I love the pure imagination here. Like all the Felix cartoons of this era, this cartoon was directed by Otto Messmer and produced by Pat Sullivan.



Easily some of the best cartoons of the silent era were the Fleischer Brothers' Out of the Inkwell cartoons. In these films, an animated Koko the clown would enter into a live action world and wreck havoc. One of the most fun parts of these cartoons is to see Koko battle with his live action boss, Max Fleischer. The star of these cartoons, KoKo the clown would continue on into the sound era, as a supporting character to Betty Boop. Like the later Betty cartoons, these Inkwell films were chock full of imagination and the pure amount of great ideas in one cartoon is staggering. Here is one of my favorites in the series, Cartoon Factory (1924).



    Last but not least for the day is the Donald Duck cartoon, Clown of the Jungle (1947). This film finds Donald as a wildlife photographer who tries to get a picture of the wild Aracuan bird. This character is one of the wildest and craziest created for the Disney studios. He first appeared in the feature film, The Three Caballeros (1944), which was already the studio's wildest and cartooniest films. This short is another wild and cartoony film from the Disney studio with laughs galore. Not hurting that is that the cartoon was directed by Jack Hannah, who was handling most of the Donald Duck shorts at this time and proved himself to be a great director of cartoony cartoons. The backgrounds for this cartoon where borrowed from a Donald cartoon from the previous year, Frank Duck Brings 'em Back Alive (1946, also directed by Hannah). The working title for this picture was Feathered Frenzy. I love the cute and charming animation of the humming birds at the beginning (animated by Bill Justice), it fools you into thinking you are going to watch a cute little cartoon, making the craziness that is going to come all the more funny. The humming birds return later in cartoon only to be interrupted by the zaniness of the Aracuan bird (this scene also animated by Bill Justice). The film also contains a gag involving the Aracuan bird drawing a real working, elevator with a pencil (this scene is marvelously animated by Hal King with perfect split-second comic timing) which may remind one of a similar gag in Bob Clampett's classic Looney Tune, Porky in Wackyland (1938). So without further ado here is Clown of the Jungle.



For the section on Clown of the Jungle JB Kaufman's great book, South of the Border With Disney proved to be an incredible resource.


So stay tooned for more classic cartoons next Saturday. Until then peace love and cartoons.

   -Michael J. Ruhland

Some Cartoons for Saturday Morning #4 - Silent Edition

Happy Saturday morning again my friends. Of course you know that means it is time to look at more classic cartoons. Today let's try something a little different and look at some great silent cartoons. 

First up is a cartoon staring the most famous cartoon character of the silent era. This is of course Felix the cat. Felix as many of you know is turning 100 this year having debuted in 1919 with Feline Follies. By the cartoon we are going to look at today, Felix was as popular to movie going audiences as any of the great silent movie live action stars. Speaking of the great live action stars you will see animated versions of many of them here including William S. Hart, Douglas Fairbanks, Ben Turpin, Will Hays, Gloria Swanson and most delightfully Charlie Chaplin. Yes the scene with Charlie Chaplin is fantastic. When our hero shows Will Hays his acting ability, he does an imitation of Charlie Chaplin. Charlie accuses the feline of stealing his stuff and gives chase. There is some actual history behind this joke. Producer Pat Sullivan and animator Otto Messmer had previously made a series of animated shorts featuring an animated version of Chaplin's little tramp and this work with the tramp inspired much of Felix's personality and movements. This is maybe one of the most popular silent Felix shorts and certainly one of the best. In fact it received a spot in Jerry Beck's book, The 50 Greatest Cartoons. So without further ado here is Felix in Hollywood (1923).




Since I mentioned them earlier, I feel this is a perfect time to share one of Pat Sullivan and  Otto Messmer's Charlie Chaplin cartoons. The story of having the Tramp as a farmhand was done in Chaplin's live action short, The Tramp (1915). Borrowed directly from that short is a gag involving milking a cow. So here is Charley on the Farm (1919).

The next film is one of Walt Disney's excellent series of Alice Comedies. This series was intended as a reversal on the Fleischer's Out of the Inkwell cartoons. Those films featured an animated KoKo the clown entering a live action world. The Alice comedies on the other hand featured a live action girl entering an animated world. The effect was fantastic and many of the Alice Comedies are just fantastic entertainment. The live action little girl was originally played by Virginia Davis. After her contract was not renewed because her parents were not happy with her being payed less, the part was taken over by Margie Gay who plays the role here. This is Margie's first time playing the lead in an Alice Comedy. It also marked another first, this was the cartoon debut of Pete, who would later be the nemeses of such Disney characters as Oswald the Rabbit and Mickey Mouse. The character is still in use today thanks to shows like Mickey and the Roadster Racers or video games like the Kingdom Heart series. So here is Alice Solves the Puzzle (1925).




Speaking of Walt Disney here is one of his classic Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons. The story of this film will seem familiar to Disney fans, as it was remade as the Mickey Mouse cartoon, Building a Building. I have written about that Mickey Mouse cartoon, here. Notice in both the Oswald and Mickey Mouse Pete is the villain. This however is an excellent cartoon in its own right, so here is Sky Scrappers (1928).




Last but not least is one of Earl Hurd's great Bobby Bumps cartoons. Earl Hurd is probably best remembered today for being one of the creators of cel animation. However he should be just as remembered for the Bobby Bumps cartoons, because they are fantastic. I love all the fourth wall jokes here as well as the gags that could only be done in silent cartoons. This is one of the best of the series and a must watch for all fans of silent cartoons. So here is Bobby Bumps Puts a Beanery on a Bum (1918).






So stayed tooned next Saturday morning for more cartoons. Until then peace love and cartoons.

-Michael J. Ruhland