{"id":33352,"date":"2017-06-01T00:01:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T07:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/?p=33352"},"modified":"2017-06-01T11:03:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T18:03:19","slug":"oswald-rabbit-in-the-keeper-of-the-lions-1937","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/index.php\/oswald-rabbit-in-the-keeper-of-the-lions-1937\/","title":{"rendered":"Oswald Rabbit in “The Keeper of the Lions” (1937)"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"\n

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Thunderbean Update<\/strong>: First, thanks for everyone\u2019s patience on *all* the stuff coming up from Thunderbean that has been ordered. I\u2019ve been truly enjoying working on these sets, and am happy that the bottleneck of dubbing and sending is almost over for at least the first batches of things. It\u2019s still quite busy, but knowing that the pile is getting smaller is gratifying.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It was nice to attend Cinevent in Columbus, Ohio- I was only there a day, but I enjoyed seeing many of you that read these posts. Thanks to all for saying hi!<\/p>\n

The coolest thing I got was from my friend Stewart McKissick. \u2018Constrained Caricatures\u2019. It\u2019s full of beautiful, fun illustrations. It\u2019s a great little mini-coffee table book that is fun to pick up over and over- it\u2019s available on Amazon<\/a>. <\/p>\n

After a few years, I\u2019ve finally finished fixing up my mother\u2019s old house- it\u2019s going to be rented to one of my colleagues. It\u2019s been an incredible process in some ways, and as it was happening I\u2019ve been working on a personal animated\/live action film, \u2018Where I found Her\u2019. I\u2019ve been enjoying getting back to animating a little more in recent days, and haven\u2019t shown anyone *any* of the work on this film as of yet.<\/p>\n

After last week\u2019s post I got a lot of emails asking to do a Little King<\/em> Blu-ray. I decided to do something small, really only available for a week, but I\u2019ll extend it a few days in case anyone here would like the offer. You can find it on the IAD forum here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s interesting to me that the late 30s Lantz cartoons are so hard to see. When I first started collecting 16mm in the early 80s, it seemed like there was no one else my age collecting- it was all older collectors, and some of them would get the Big Reel sent express mail, beating me EVERY time to certain cartoons. One of these collectors was Collin Kellogg, who became a friend after many late night conversations about what cartoons are good and what isn\u2019t. When I would tell him as a teenager what cartoons I just bought, he\u2019d go done the list of why each of them was either \u2018common\u2019 or \u2018lame\u2019. heck, they were new viewing to me and exciting- and I especially loved the 30s cartoons, so finding a \u2018common\u2019 Castle print of a Lantz cartoon in my teenage price range was still a wonderful discovery. What films were exciting to you when you first saw them?<\/p>\n

Keeper of the Lions<\/em> is one of the more \u2018common\u2019 prints that collectors used to to come across..and like many others it must have been a staple of rental libraries big and small. There were Castle16mm prints of a particular group of Lantz Oswald cartoons from 1936 and 37 that they cold for many years- and so, these became the most common ones to see from the series.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I must have owned five or six prints of this one over the years. <\/p>\n

Keeper of the Lions<\/em> is still a little hard to see. I\u2019ve always liked this cartoon, from the opening (where somehow Oswald\u2019s lip-sync didn\u2019t manage to get on the exposure sheets- or for some other reason wasn\u2019t animated) to the team relationship between Oswald and the \u2018The Dumb Cluck\u2019. Stop Motion animator and designer Charlie Bowers had joined the Lantz staff, contributing this particular character. Although \u2018Dumb Cluck\u2019 didn\u2019t take off, it does appear that this character is an inspiration of sorts for Woody Woodpecker in design.You\u2019ll also never find another cartoon that has a sign that says \u2018Beware Patagonian Wild Crabs\u2019 in it. Although there\u2019s a few splices at this point on this print, my favorite shot is near the end of the picture where the lions are \u2018boxed\u2019. <\/p>\n

Although the animation quality varies throughout the film, I think it\u2019s a lot of fun and overall pretty nicely animated. It\u2019s a real action picture, What did you folks think of this one?<\/p>\n

Have a good week everybody!<\/p>\n