Animated Barks

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Postby Daniel73 » Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:49 pm

From a private email sent to (amongst others) "A Guidebook"-site:

From: "Michael"
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 4:14 PM
Subject: Alpine Climbers

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The following might be old news to you, but here it is in case you need it
...

"Alpine Climbers" from 1936 has as far as I can see not been listed among
the cartoons with a Barks contribution. But he must at least have been one
of the in-betweeners, perhaps even animator. The two pencil drawings
depicted on page 28 in CBSV vol I are easily identified by frame-viewing the
DVD. The signatures on the sheets prove that Barks indeed is the artist.

Another note, while I'm at it:
"Alpine Climbers" seems to feature the debut of Bolivar.
Can any of you verify this?

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Postby Daniel73 » Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:57 pm

From a private email sent to (amongst others) "A Guidebook"-site:

From: "Gerd Syllwasschy"
To: "Michael"
Cc: [dve, and others]
Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 3:35 PM
Subject: Re: Alpine Climbers

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> "Alpine Climbers" from 1936 has as far as I can see not been listed among
> the cartoons with a Barks contribution. But he must at least have been one
> of the in-betweeners, perhaps even animator. The two pencil drawings
> depicted on page 28 in CBSV vol I are easily identified by frame-viewing the
> DVD. The signatures on the sheets prove that Barks indeed is the artist.

Thank you for pointing this out. I hadn't noticed it myself yet. There
does not seem to exist any complete record of Barks' contributions as an
in-betweener and Barks himself only ever mentioned "Thru the Mirror" and
"Three Little Wolves", so such findings are always valuable.

> "Alpine Climbers" seems to feature the debut of Bolivar.
> Can any of you verify this?

Well, this is probably a question of where to draw the line. The dog in
the animated cartoon is certainly not *the* Bolivar as we know him
(i.e., Donald Duck's pet dog), though he admittedly has a striking
resemblance to the comic-strip dog, and it is highly possible that Al
Taliaferro based his own design of Bolivar on this film (and/or the
Silly Symphony cartoon "More Kittens" which I haven't seen yet).

There is another St. Bernard dog in the 1932 Silly Symphony "Just Dogs",
see the attached screenshot. Think this is Bolivar? Maybe a younger and
leaner one. ;-)

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(Does Sander have interest to upload the mentioned attached picture of the 1932 Silly Symphony "Just Dogs"?)
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Postby Sander » Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:18 pm

Daniel73 wrote:(Does Sander have interest to upload the mentioned attached picture of the 1932 Silly Symphony "Just Dogs"?)

(Yes, I'll upload that and the other pictures you sent me, though maybe not this night.)
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Postby Sander » Sat Nov 11, 2006 10:46 pm

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Postby Robb_K » Sun Nov 12, 2006 1:50 am

Al Taliaferro stated in an interview, that he modeled Bolivar on his OWN family's dog (when he was growing up-I think?) He also said he modeled Grandma Duck after his Mother-in-Law. I also read that he modeled Donald's small car (313)-after a small roadster his parents had in the 1920s, with a rumble seat. But it was updated to a 1930s look for the strip.
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Postby Egg » Mon Dec 04, 2006 3:35 pm

In the ten-pager of WDC 108, in which Donald is trying to catch a frog, Donald gets a frog under his jacket. As a result, Donald thinks the frog is his beating heart: "It's coronary thrombosis! I'm a doomed duck!" (4.5)

The idea of a jumping frog mixed up with a beating heart, reminds Egg of a Donald Duck animated cartoon.
Can someone identify such a cartoon? (Could it be the one where the nephews try to get their savings from Donald to buy cigars for his birthday?)
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Postby Doctor Witchie Britchie » Tue Dec 05, 2006 2:35 am

That would be the 1944 cartoon, "Donald's Off Day," in which the Nephews make a hypochondriac Donald think he's dying of some kind of heart disease by putting a rubber jumping rabbit (that they work by an air pump) inside his jacket.
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