Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Filmography: Jim Tyer's Barnyard Actor
This post is just the tip of the iceberg... see reason number 7 on our The Top Ten Reasons To Support The A-HAA for links to more great cartoons to study.
A few weeks ago, we featured some funny animal comics by the great Jim Tyer. Wonderful as those were, they only tell part of the story about Tyer's unique talents. Today, we are presenting one of his best cartoons, Barnyard Actor (1955).
I'm not going to tell you much about this cartoon. I want you to watch it for yourself. It isn't even necessary to identify Jim Tyer's scenes for you. You'll spot them immediately. They're the ones that make you laugh out loud.
The story in this cartoon had been done in a dozen cartoons that came before it. But none of those predecessors had anything even remotely similar to what Jim Tyer brings to this cartoon.
The following images are just a tiny sample of the pure cartoony joy you are about to experience courtesy of the wild imagination of Jim Tyer. I've digitized this movie at 24 frames per second, so you will be able to still frame through all the crazy poses for yourself. And you thought Tex Avery had some wild takes!
Once the fireworks get going, watch out! Enjoy!
Barnyard Actor (Terrytoons/1955)
(Quicktime 7 / 14 megs)
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11 Comments:
I'm glad you put this up at 24fps. I hope the "archival" files you have of all the previous cartoons are 24fps also.
However, I notice framing thru it is that the camera moves which would all be shot on "ones" are coming out with 1-1-2 frame arrangement. This suggests an error somewhere in the transfer pipeline. Since the overall length of the cartoon seems normal I'm guessing that every 3rd frame of the original film is being doubled and every 4th frame discarded, or some equivalent. If your original source is 30fps video this might be an inverse-telecine error.
WHAT A GREAT CARTOON!
Thanks for posting this!
Any idea who Gandy is impersonating when he goes into that "you're the guy...that hit my pal...and I'm the guy..that's gonna give IT to you..." That dialogue always cracks me up.
I love this cartoon!
I've digitized this movie at 24 frames per second, so you will be able to still frame through all the crazy poses for yourself.
I bow to you, Steve! Thanks for being so caring about that little detail, you wouldn't imagine how sick I am of doing inverse telecines!
Normally, when I'm compressing for the web, I drop the frame rate to 15 fps. It makes a big difference in file size, and allows the cartoons to stream quickly. In this case, I chose 24 fps, as the happy medium between 15 and the 29.95 drop frame master that the cartoon is taken from.
At the archive, we archive three quality versions of each cartoon we digitize... the uncompressed DV capture, a viewing DVD version and a thumbnail quicktime movie in mp4 format... similar to an iPod movie... to embed in the database itself.
Thanks
Steve
Gandy does impressions of Groucho, Durante, Gary Cooper and Cagney. He avoids the "You dirty rat!" line,
See ya
Steve
Thanks!
Great cartoon!
If you're interested, another cartoon with marvellous Jim Tyer animation is "The Reformed Wolf", one of the last Mighty Mouse cartoons, probably made in 1954, and one of the best Terrytoons of all time.
You forgot to mention that this cartoon is also Gandy's swan...er... goose song. Shortly after that, Paul sold his studio and Gene came along making a very stylized (and swell) period while discontuing Gandy and other characters.
Also, I think I have spotted DVNR on some the scenes in the cartoon (notablely the James Cagney scene). Am I imagining it?
That's compression artifacting. It isn't on our master.
Steve
Wow! I havent seen this one before...it is absolutely beautiful. I wish I could figure out how he did it...his style of animating is totally unique (that goes without saying) but that itself is unheard of --an animator that just invented a totally abstract and funny way of moving a cartoon around, and yet somehow it's still believable!! Thanks Steve, I hope one day I'll make it down to LA so I can visit the archive and soak in somemore of this genius.
Yer pal
Nick
Plenty of people have been wondering how Jim Tyer's brain worked. Nobody on earth has been able to even approximate what he did, before or since. And it took even Tyer about fifteen years of animating before he developed his full blown signature style.
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