Oswald protects his girl from the advances of his rival for her attention.Oswald protects his girl from the advances of his rival for her attention.Oswald protects his girl from the advances of his rival for her attention.
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Walter Lantz
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- William Nolan(uncredited)
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Frolicking in the snow
Despite Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and his cartoons being popular and well received at the time, they have been vastly overshadowed over time by succeeding animation characters. It is a shame as, while not cartoon masterpieces, they are fascinating for anybody wanting to see what very old animation looked like.
Not all the Walter Lantz cartoons are bad, 'Permanent Wave' for example is perfect proof of that, but some of them are not good representations of Oswald or Lantz and for historical interest only. There have been worse cartoons of theirs before and since 'Snow Use', but almost all the Disney and Winkler era Oswald cartoons are much better and 'Snow Use' is not a patch on the best of those two eras.
This may sound like a re-iteration of what was said about the previous Lantz Oswald cartoons (excepting 'Permanent Wave', which was a good one), mainly because it shares the same good and bad points. It is of historical interest, being an early sound Oswald cartoon, but it is not bad enough to say it is for historical interest only.
'Snow Use's' sound quality for a cartoon so old and techniques still in its early days is not as primitive as it could have been. It is agreed too that most of the gags are fun and inventive especially with the giant snowball.
The music is as energetic as ever too, and Oswald, while having much better material and deserving of it, is still pretty endearing. The bear is a decent enough character.
On the other hand, even for an Oswald cartoon (which are not exactly to be seen for their stories), to say that the story is flimsy is an understatement, it's barely there that it's easy to say that there isn't one. It's also very repetitive and the pacing lacks sharpness with some of the bear's antics feeling like filler. Some of the synchronisation is sloppy, and a couple of the gags could have been significantly sharper.
Unusually, the animation is not great when most of the time in Oswald cartoons it's good. It's crudely drawn, the transitions has a tendency to look choppy and incomplete and the backgrounds lack detail and yes primitive.
On the whole, average stuff. 5/10 Bethany Cox
Not all the Walter Lantz cartoons are bad, 'Permanent Wave' for example is perfect proof of that, but some of them are not good representations of Oswald or Lantz and for historical interest only. There have been worse cartoons of theirs before and since 'Snow Use', but almost all the Disney and Winkler era Oswald cartoons are much better and 'Snow Use' is not a patch on the best of those two eras.
This may sound like a re-iteration of what was said about the previous Lantz Oswald cartoons (excepting 'Permanent Wave', which was a good one), mainly because it shares the same good and bad points. It is of historical interest, being an early sound Oswald cartoon, but it is not bad enough to say it is for historical interest only.
'Snow Use's' sound quality for a cartoon so old and techniques still in its early days is not as primitive as it could have been. It is agreed too that most of the gags are fun and inventive especially with the giant snowball.
The music is as energetic as ever too, and Oswald, while having much better material and deserving of it, is still pretty endearing. The bear is a decent enough character.
On the other hand, even for an Oswald cartoon (which are not exactly to be seen for their stories), to say that the story is flimsy is an understatement, it's barely there that it's easy to say that there isn't one. It's also very repetitive and the pacing lacks sharpness with some of the bear's antics feeling like filler. Some of the synchronisation is sloppy, and a couple of the gags could have been significantly sharper.
Unusually, the animation is not great when most of the time in Oswald cartoons it's good. It's crudely drawn, the transitions has a tendency to look choppy and incomplete and the backgrounds lack detail and yes primitive.
On the whole, average stuff. 5/10 Bethany Cox
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- TheLittleSongbird
- May 29, 2017
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