“Watch ski master Huck try his luck,” Huckleberry Hound tells us at home watching a little-cartoon-before-the-cartoon. Note the pursed lips and the half-moon eyes.
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Huck sees something. Now comes a head shake. What’s interesting is Huck is not animated in a two-drawing or three-drawing cycle like you’d find in a regular, seven-minute cartoon. As far as I can see, each of these are separate drawings, animated one per frame.
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Huck’s elongated eye-stare reminds of an expression in a Mighty Mouse cartoon.
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Huck crashes through a cabin without a scratch and relaxes as he gets set to enjoy a Huckleberry Hound cartoon.
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The dialogue is unmistakably by Charlie Shows, but while the animation has some of the earmarks of Carlo Vinci, it doesn’t look altogether like the kind of movement and character style that Carlo was using in the 1958-59 Huck cartoons.
Huck sees something. Now comes a head shake. What’s interesting is Huck is not animated in a two-drawing or three-drawing cycle like you’d find in a regular, seven-minute cartoon. As far as I can see, each of these are separate drawings, animated one per frame.
Huck’s elongated eye-stare reminds of an expression in a Mighty Mouse cartoon.
Huck crashes through a cabin without a scratch and relaxes as he gets set to enjoy a Huckleberry Hound cartoon.
The dialogue is unmistakably by Charlie Shows, but while the animation has some of the earmarks of Carlo Vinci, it doesn’t look altogether like the kind of movement and character style that Carlo was using in the 1958-59 Huck cartoons.