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They Were Only Volunteers
Several members of the staff of Paul Terry's cartoon studio may have been volunteer firemen, but they weren't setting the world of animation aflame with this decent effort.
Part of the trouble may have been financial. Terry was distributing through Educational Pictures, and Educational was having troubles of its own as the market for short subjects was being squeezed out. Nonetheless, the technical issues with this cartoon are all fine Philip Scheib continued to turn out good scores, and the one here is well calculated to be as exciting as a good fire is. The background work is also good, with the tall buildings of a city well represented from interesting angles.
The problem is that there is far too much cheating going on, as sequences are repeated to pad out the cartoon. The result is another decent cartoon... in a period when Disney was riding high and the staff at Leon Schlesinger's studio was beginning to figure out how to do do great character cartoons. Terry needed to catch up.... and he wasn't.
Part of the trouble may have been financial. Terry was distributing through Educational Pictures, and Educational was having troubles of its own as the market for short subjects was being squeezed out. Nonetheless, the technical issues with this cartoon are all fine Philip Scheib continued to turn out good scores, and the one here is well calculated to be as exciting as a good fire is. The background work is also good, with the tall buildings of a city well represented from interesting angles.
The problem is that there is far too much cheating going on, as sequences are repeated to pad out the cartoon. The result is another decent cartoon... in a period when Disney was riding high and the staff at Leon Schlesinger's studio was beginning to figure out how to do do great character cartoons. Terry needed to catch up.... and he wasn't.
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- boblipton
- Feb 5, 2015
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