Rod Scribner question

[Daffysleftfoot]

There's a period in WB history between 1946 and 1950 where Rod Scribner is absent from any animation credit. Was he in an insane asylum at that time?

[Nick]

I asked this question before on the old board. The answer was that Rod Scribner became a victim of an outbreak of Tuberculosis after the second world war and therefore was absent from any animation credit.

In my original post, however, J. J. Hunsecker said that Rod Scribner may of animated on "One Meat Brawl" and "Hobo Bobo", which were both released in 1947.

[J. J. Hunsecker]

I asked this question before on the old board. The answer was that Rod Scribner became a victim of an outbreak of Tuberculosis after the second world war and therefore was absent from any animation credit.

In my original post, however, J. J. Hunsecker said that Rod Scribner may of animated on "One Meat Brawl" and "Hobo Bobo", which were both released in 1947.Scribner was definitely on sickleave with TB for a couple of years. The two cartoons I mentioned before were probably made before he left the studio and just released later in 1947. (There were long delays with the technicolor processing of prints.)

I may have been wrong about Hobo Bobo, but I read somewhere -- maybe in Barrier's book -- that Scribner started a scene in One Meat Brawl but that the sequence was finished later by another animator after Rod became sick. I believe that scene to be where Porky is berating his dog after he mistakely thinks his dog ate the groundhog. In one short scene Porky has the tell-tale forrowed wrinkles that Scribner loved to use. In another scene in that same sequence the wrinkles are gone and Porky looks slightly different -- more "on model" if you will.