Unpredictable as Weather (Part 27)
Lots of fun where the sun don’t shine.
Lots of fun where the sun don’t shine.
Mother Nature’s targets this week: Woody Woodpecker, Daffy Duck, Goofy, and Mighty Mouse.
My 30 years of trying to revive a mighty mouse, a pair of talking magpies and a very neurotic elephant.
Pull up any handy umbrella, and don’t follow that old song’s advice about turning it upside-down – it just doesn’t work.
As original music began to become scarcer and scarcer, today’s sampling is simply a grab bag of bouncing balls!
Another neat batch of titles this week, mostly from the higher-end producers of animated fare (Terrytoons and Columbia miss the cut).
Lots of star power this week, with many of the major players in Hollywood cartoons taking their stand in the rain and snow.
The storm clouds miss no one today – as every one of the major producing studios appears in today’s 1943-44 survey.
There were several who would wither achieve their own series later or become recognized “Stars” when Harvey featured the characters in comics and television.
Today, double doses of Hugh Harman, early Chuck Jones, and a couple of major features, as we continue our storm tracking into mid-1940.