Watching the great Chuck Jones short 8 Ball Bunny for the umpteenth time on film, I noticed something I hadn’t before: that in the wonderful Ken Harris scene of Calypso Bugs, when it cuts to the penguin building the boat, we still see Bugs in the background as an animated silhouette. Can anyone think of other scenes like this where a silhouette is actually animated, but is not the focus of the shot?
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This is another example of Jones and his unit at the height of their powers. The scene is made even funnier by how Bugs seems utterly offended by Bogart having the audacity to interrupt his song in this filler exposition scene, and then immediately resuming his deadpan expression.
Animated silhouettes. Can’t say I recall any. There’s gotta be some though. I’ll keep an eye out. What about the dancing bimbo on the wall in Bimbo’s Initiation? I guess that would be considered a shadow though.
I never noticed that before in my life. THANKS! Little technical things like this in cartoons always take me by surprise and never cease to amaze me.
Bugs is no less miffed than John Huston was when Bogie asked him the same question in “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre”.
I love silhouette shots, though I can’t recall any where it’s used in the background.
I’ve watched this cartoon hundreds of times over the last 30+ years, and never noticed that before- incredible!
“Can anyone think of other scenes like this where a silhouette is actually animated, but is not the focus of the shot?”
Nope, not at all.
8 Ball Bunny is one of my favorites because it’s a mesh of Clampett’s and Jones’ Bugs. The running Bogart gag is also the icing on the cake.
What I’d like to know is . . . is that really Bogie’s voice? I know the answer “yes” is probably a very long shot, but hey, Warners did a cartoon using Jack Benny’s real voice about ten years later.
It’s Dave Barry voicing Bogie. He also voiced Bogie in BACALL TO ARMS and SLICK HARE.