My Looney Tunes commentary!

[Matthew Hunter]

Blatantly stealing the idea from Thad, I've decided to do some pop-up commentaries on some classic Looney Tunes. Not so much animator breakdowns as, well, commentaries. Here's my first one, "Mexican Boarders" (1962)!

Mexican Boarders (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A45-SQ-LKm0)

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[oceansoul]

A bit off-topic question:

Is it legal to upload these looney tunes (or tom and jerry or other full shorts) to Youtube? A few of mines have been removed because of copyright infringement.:(

IMO there's nothing wrong with it, because these toons are 50 years old, and can be very rarely seen on television now.

[Tim Lones]

A bit off-topic question:

Is it legal to upload these looney tunes (or tom and jerry or other full shorts) to Youtube? A few of mines have been removed because of copyright infringement.:(

IMO there's nothing wrong with it, because these toons are 50 years old, and can be very rarely seen on television now.

But they can be bought on Looney Tunes Golden Collections..Tom and Jerry Collections, etc...So if one sees it on YouTube, they then don't have to buy the collection

[oceansoul]

But they can be bought on Looney Tunes Golden Collections..Tom and Jerry Collections, etc...So if one sees it on YouTube, they then don't have to buy the collection

My deleted cartoons weren't DVD ripoffs, even they weren't even released on LTGC yet.

[Toonami]

Sweet! I'd like to try that with some Clampett cartoons! We could have a thread where pople post their commentaries! What programs did you use and how do you get your cartoons on youtube?

[Jon Cooke]

Blatantly stealing the idea from Thad, I've decided to do some pop-up commentaries on some classic Looney Tunes. Not so much animator breakdowns as, well, commentaries. Here's my first one, "Mexican Boarders" (1962)!

I watched that this morning and thought it was very well done. I had no idea you were behind it, Matthew!

[Matthew Hunter]

Here's another one: "The High and the Flighty"!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC1_EIdUllg

[rodney]

But they can be bought on Looney Tunes Golden Collections..Tom and Jerry Collections, etc...So if one sees it on YouTube, they then don't have to buy the collection

Not hardly every cartoon is on those sets, and even if they are, animation breakdowns, commentaries etc make them completely different from the DVD released shorts.

[Jon Cooke]

Not hardly every cartoon is on those sets, and even if they are, animation breakdowns, commentaries etc make them completely different from the DVD released shorts.

Besides, YouTube quality is quite different than DVD quality...

[David Gerstein]

Matthew, now I've had a chance to watch these and man, I enjoyed them!

Re: Mexican Boarders:
Keen eye... I'd never noticed that Sylvester didn't have the white tip on his tail in that short. And me being me, I loved your nod to the comic books. (-:
The scene of Sylvester being carved into cubes really was gruesome! It reminds me of why others objected to Museum Scream (though Scream, while no classic, was my favorite of the Doyle shorts... it's a relative thing).
Other observation: slow as he may be, Slowpoke speaks the truth when he states that he's a quick thinker. Nice bit of stereotype-busting, and rather surprising for the era.

Re: High and the Flighty:
You hit a homer right at the start here when you point out that Foghorn cartoons usually have three main characters. I never thought about it before, but maybe that's why the relatively recent Pullet Surprise was relatively weak—it tried to function with two.
Great commentary, also, on the changing nature of Daffy in McKimson's cartoons. In them, he often seems like the loonier Daffy of old with greed emphasized just a little more than before.
There's a subtitle you included that I won't give away in this thread, but that immediately made me think "He's channeling Bob Wickersham..."
:fox::crow:

[AardvarkDog]

Well, well! You've certianly gave us something to learn from Two Great Looney Tune cartoons, Matthew. I really had to laugh and agree on some points made in MEXICAN BOARDERS from how Sylvester got through the mouse hole to his missing white tale tip (I think that was very common in most of McKimson's cartoons, but I could be wrong)


Still, thanks a lot for providing us some background into some of our fave animations. Seeing as you've done one from Freleng and McKimson, any chance you might do one fron Jones, Clampett or even Davis? :)

[Studio Toledo]

Matthew, now I've had a chance to watch these and man, I enjoyed them!

Re: Mexican Boarders:
Keen eye... I'd never noticed that Sylvester didn't have the white tip on his tail in that short. And me being me, I loved your nod to the comic books. (-:
The scene of Sylvester being carved into cubes really was gruesome! It reminds me of why others objected to Museum Scream (though Scream, while no classic, was my favorite of the Doyle shorts... it's a relative thing).
Too often there's a think with animators over how they treat their characters that many times raises those kind of questions over what they shoudl do or what pain must they face in these cartoons. It's hard to see them in these situations if you cared deeply about them as if they were your own children!

Of course if you think of that scene a certain way, it's rather cute that Sylvester developed an interest in cubism! :-) (really silly joke)


Other observation: slow as he may be, Slowpoke speaks the truth when he states that he's a quick thinker. Nice bit of stereotype-busting, and rather surprising for the era.
Never thought of that either.

Re: High and the Flighty:
You hit a homer right at the start here when you point out that Foghorn cartoons usually have three main characters. I never thought about it before, but maybe that's why the relatively recent Pullet Surprise was relatively weak—it tried to function with two.
The threesome pattern had been quite common in those cartoons, yet we hardly ever noticed how the chemistry worked.

[dendawg]

Great stuff, Matthew! All that's missing are those Pop-Up Video sound effects.:p :D

[oceansoul]

Great job indeed. I never thought about the common 3-way battle in Foggy toons, but it makes sense. All of the great Foggy episodes offers 3 main characters (maybe Broken leghorn and Little boy boo is an exception, as great cartoons, but they also have Miss Prissy at start.)

Btw, if I should recommend some cartoon commentary for u, here are some where I'm really interested:

Great Piggy Bank Robbery
Porky Pig's Feat
Daffy Doodles
Boobs in the Woods
Thumb Fun
For Scent-imental Reasons
Awful Orphan (or one of the Charlie-Porky trilogy)
What's Opera doc?
Rebel Rabbit
Ballot-Box Bunny
Mississippi Hare
Ain't she Tweet
Room and Bird
Scaredy Cat or Claws for Alarm
and one of the better Roadrunner cartoons

Just thanks. :)