I don’t think whoever put this together missed many Leghornisms. It’s sort of depressing to watch them all jumbled together like this because you see random flashes of McKimson’s director rot.
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Actually, whoever made it did… No scenes from the seldom-talked of classic from Bob McKimson’s later days, Banty Raids. Though most of its enjoyment comes from the poon-crazed beatnik’s antics than anything Foggy does. (Not to mention a Bill Lava score that actually (surprisingly) works well in a Warner cartoon.)
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I think “Banty Raids” is a great cartoon, one of the only highlights of McKimson’s early 60’s works. I disagree with your low opinion of McKimson in general, but nobody can call his 1961-64 cartoons like “Strangled Eggs” or “Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare” “good’ and be in their right mind.
Actually a few secs from “Banty Raids” are included.
Well, there are a lot of scenes from my favourite Foggy cartoons of all time, so this compilation couldn’t be bad. Banty Raids is OK, but it’s far from my favourite FL shorts.
Btw. I don’t know where to ask… but what happened to the GAC forums? Toonzone has an error as well.
Server upgrade I believe, tnandi.
It is an upgrade. Jon Cooke said as much.
I really wish more Foghorns made the DVD’s. I mean, we get every Bosko cartoon ever made on Volume 6, but we’ve still yet to see a representative selection of Foggy on the DVD’s..
Milt Franklyn also contributed posthumously to the musical score when they cribbed his rockabilly “Gee Wizz Willikens..” number from the linking segment with Bugs and Sam from “The Bugs Bunny Show” (Lava’s best scores tend to be the ones where minimalism is actually an assent instead of a liability, as with the jazz/blues small combo effort in “Banty Raids” or the tinny, Roaring ’20s sound for “The Unmentionables”).
Banty Raids has always been my childhood favorite! It’s definately because of the little beatnik rooster more than anything else-and yes Bill Lava’s score actually is very catchy.
“Banty Raids” is just about the funniest of the 60s LTs I’ve seen so far–even if they filched the punchline from “Some Like It Hot”!
I haven’t seen Banty Raids since I was a kid. (haven’t gotten through all the dvds yet) So this post really brought me back.