I love how the early cartoons are so musical. The early 30s were especially written around music.By 1940, some of the animators and directors drifted away from long song sequences, in favor of sweet sentimentality, sarcastic humor, realistic special effects and whatever else were the trends.
Clampett was aware of trends, but wasn't a slave to them. He did what he thought was entertaining, whether it fit whatever everyone else was doing or not.He kept up to date with the current advances in animation, started new trends in creativity and technique, but didn't abandon the best traditions of early cartoons. He directed by instinct and great artistic-cartoonist taste rather than blindly following what the other guys were doing.
This is a really fun sequence from "We, The Animals Squeak".
I wish there was a magic studio somewhere that would preserve the great traditions of the first cartoons while striving to add new and fun techniques and creative ideas. Historically, as new ideas come along, many creative people discard the good ones from their own past, rather than just adding the good new ones to the good old ones.
Clampett followed this philosophy. His cartoons were fully modern, prophetic and yet traditional all at the same time. And so musical!CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE FUNNY CLIP!
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Here is that other great musical cartoon master, Friz Freleng. (from the same year!)
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