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Topic: thought I was going bonkers
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted March 24, 2012 01:00 PM
This series of posts reminds me of a classic moment in comedy as well as animation, supplied by the one and only Tex Avery, (and the gag would be repeated by Benny Hill as well!)
The cartoon is "Musical Maestro". There is a "Butch" the bulldog, dressed as a Opera singer. he has dissed a cat, looking for a job. The cat takes over for the conductor and raises hell with the bulldog.
There are many a great gag in this classic, but the over the top topper is that at one point in the cartoon, a "hair" appears in the projector, and wiggles about for around thirty seconds or more. Suddenly, "Butch" stops singing, all audio disappears. "Butch" actually "plucks" the hair out of the image, tosses it aside, shrugs his shoulders at the audience and then the cartoons resumes it's manic pace. This was an early 1950's cartoon!
Great gag! Tex and his animators no doubt somehow, filmed a film being projected, with a "malignant" hair vibrating off to the side off the screen, in the bottom corner and then actually animated the same movements on film! Forever after that film, I felt Tex to be a genius of comedy!
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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