Directed by Jack King, "A Cartoonist's Nightmare" is a delightful black-and-white Warner Bros. cartoon about - dig this - life inside a cartoon studio! An unidentified animator works after hours to put the finishing touches on a cartoon featuring Beans the cat, a character who never really made it big. When the animator creates a monster as Beans' nemesis, he very soon wishes he hadn't!
Here are a few of my favorite moments from "A Cartoonist's Nightmare" (DON'T read on until after you have seen this cartoon). All of the various cartoon villains taunt the animator with alternate lyrics to the popular children's song about a teddy bear's picnic, which we actually hear throughout this film. The animator gets knocked around to an electrifying sound effect inside the cartoon villains' room. And as all the other animators leave the studio for the night, we see some fine caricatures of wacky animator/director Bob Clampett and goofy comedian Ed Wynn.
In "A Cartoonist's Nightmare", the unidentified animator literally gets grabbed & pulled into his own animation cell by the monster he draws. A certain contemporary animator, who I won't name, claims that any Warner Bros. cartoon directed by Bob Clampett has the same effect for him; it grabs him and yanks him into the story!
Here are a few of my favorite moments from "A Cartoonist's Nightmare" (DON'T read on until after you have seen this cartoon). All of the various cartoon villains taunt the animator with alternate lyrics to the popular children's song about a teddy bear's picnic, which we actually hear throughout this film. The animator gets knocked around to an electrifying sound effect inside the cartoon villains' room. And as all the other animators leave the studio for the night, we see some fine caricatures of wacky animator/director Bob Clampett and goofy comedian Ed Wynn.
In "A Cartoonist's Nightmare", the unidentified animator literally gets grabbed & pulled into his own animation cell by the monster he draws. A certain contemporary animator, who I won't name, claims that any Warner Bros. cartoon directed by Bob Clampett has the same effect for him; it grabs him and yanks him into the story!