Comments on: Working for Scale http://archives.frederatorblogs.com/refrederator/2006/05/08/working-for-scale/ Sat, 26 May 2012 02:23:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: tom_w http://archives.frederatorblogs.com/refrederator/2006/05/08/working-for-scale/#comment-159 tom_w Mon, 08 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 http://archives.frederatorblogs.com/refrederator/2006/05/08/working-for-scale/#comment-159 If the Fleischers did one thing great during the early thirties, it was surreal nightmare images. Maybe this later cartoon was made for younger viewers, but there was no feeling of menace in the cave in the Big Fry Club.<br /><br />I was a bit thrown off by not having the fish swim at all. When Tommy couldn't push through the bigger fish to see the poster, I expected to see him float up and over the grownups.<br /><br />I noticed that Mae Questel voiced Tommy. If the Fleischers did one thing great during the early thirties, it was surreal nightmare images. Maybe this later cartoon was made for younger viewers, but there was no feeling of menace in the cave in the Big Fry Club.

I was a bit thrown off by not having the fish swim at all. When Tommy couldn’t push through the bigger fish to see the poster, I expected to see him float up and over the grownups.

I noticed that Mae Questel voiced Tommy.

]]> By: Dave Kirwan http://archives.frederatorblogs.com/refrederator/2006/05/08/working-for-scale/#comment-160 Dave Kirwan Mon, 08 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 http://archives.frederatorblogs.com/refrederator/2006/05/08/working-for-scale/#comment-160 Oh yeah, the early Fleischer stuff was so far out, so weird... just terrific! And admittedly, the later films, like the Cartoon Classics, have only a touch of that dark, spooky vibe... but I always loved the off handed goofiness of some of them like "Small Fry." Good point — the fish, for the most part, walk, don't swim (the Mom even sings "you got your feet all wet, you'll be the death of me yet...) Little throw away touches like that seem rather endearing to me.<br /> Oh yeah, the early Fleischer stuff was so far out, so weird… just terrific! And admittedly, the later films, like the Cartoon Classics, have only a touch of that dark, spooky vibe… but I always loved the off handed goofiness of some of them like “Small Fry.” Good point — the fish, for the most part, walk, don’t swim (the Mom even sings “you got your feet all wet, you’ll be the death of me yet…) Little throw away touches like that seem rather endearing to me.

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