Comments on: Rooty Toot Toot Encore http://cartoonmodern.blogsome.com/2006/04/03/rooty-toot-toot-encore/ The official blog of the new Chronicle book CARTOON MODERN: STYLE AND DESIGN IN FIFTIES ANIMATION. Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:28:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Amid http://cartoonmodern.blogsome.com/2006/04/03/rooty-toot-toot-encore/#comment-649 Tue, 04 Apr 2006 08:26:08 +0100 http://cartoonmodern.blogsome.com/2006/04/03/rooty-toot-toot-encore/#comment-649 Jenny - Thanks for the detective work. Who knows why that restaurant was decorated with these characters. It's cool that it existed though at one time. Mike - I think a lot of what Hubley did in his later independent films with Faith can be traced back to his earlier commercial work, like the similarities in character design that you mention. Other examples: the improvised dialogue that appears in Moonbird was how he recorded Jim Backus for Magoo and his son for the Maypo spots. And the use of segmented figures in Tender Game was something he did on a UPA industrial called More Than Meets the Eye (1952), as well as on TV commercials, like the E-Z Pop popcorn spots. He was able to make these ideas more pronounced in the later independent films, because there was no longer a commercial component, but the ideas were already established. Jenny - Thanks for the detective work. Who knows why that restaurant was decorated with these characters. It’s cool that it existed though at one time.

Mike - I think a lot of what Hubley did in his later independent films with Faith can be traced back to his earlier commercial work, like the similarities in character design that you mention. Other examples: the improvised dialogue that appears in Moonbird was how he recorded Jim Backus for Magoo and his son for the Maypo spots. And the use of segmented figures in Tender Game was something he did on a UPA industrial called More Than Meets the Eye (1952), as well as on TV commercials, like the E-Z Pop popcorn spots. He was able to make these ideas more pronounced in the later independent films, because there was no longer a commercial component, but the ideas were already established.

]]> by: jenny http://cartoonmodern.blogsome.com/2006/04/03/rooty-toot-toot-encore/#comment-647 Mon, 03 Apr 2006 13:53:33 +0100 http://cartoonmodern.blogsome.com/2006/04/03/rooty-toot-toot-encore/#comment-647 Whoops! I see that this place was actually in Chicago, IL. Damn...was sure it was a Wilshire googie-style place. I wonder how on earth the RTT chaacters wound up in Chicago--or was that where the "Frankie & Johnny" story was set? Whoops! I see that this place was actually in Chicago, IL. Damn…was sure it was a Wilshire googie-style place. I wonder how on earth the RTT chaacters wound up in Chicago–or was that where the “Frankie & Johnny” story was set?

]]> by: jenny http://cartoonmodern.blogsome.com/2006/04/03/rooty-toot-toot-encore/#comment-646 Mon, 03 Apr 2006 12:31:36 +0100 http://cartoonmodern.blogsome.com/2006/04/03/rooty-toot-toot-encore/#comment-646 I'd bet 100 bucks this was on Wilshire...hmmm. I'll try & find out further. What a great photograph. I’d bet 100 bucks this was on Wilshire…hmmm. I’ll try & find out further. What a great photograph.

]]> by: Michael Sporn http://cartoonmodern.blogsome.com/2006/04/03/rooty-toot-toot-encore/#comment-645 Mon, 03 Apr 2006 04:46:00 +0100 http://cartoonmodern.blogsome.com/2006/04/03/rooty-toot-toot-encore/#comment-645 Your comments on this film have been great - another look at that mural makes me see it in a different light. Very nice.I also realize, looking at this model, that the characters of Rooty are precursors to those in Tender Game. He just eliminated the lines and went wholly with the shapes. Your comments on this film have been great - another look at that mural makes me see it in a different light. Very nice.I also realize, looking at this model, that the characters of Rooty are precursors to those in Tender Game. He just eliminated the lines and went wholly with the shapes.

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