Filmography: Tytla and Terry-Jekyll and Hyde

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Today, we continued to digitize our collection of Terrytoons. The second-tier golden age studios have been given short shrift in animation history books. It's unfortunate that book after book about Walt Disney and the Warner Bros. cartoons continue to be published when other studios, like Terry-Toons and Walter Lantz have never been adequately covered. The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive is gathering together information on these studios with the hopes that we can raise the awareness of these neglected cartoons.

Here is a fabulous Terry-Toon featuring Mighty Mouse... Mighty Mouse Meets Jekyll & Hyde Cat. You might remember the recent postings we published here with John Canemaker's notes to a gallery exhibit of artwork by Bill Tytla, (Part One / Part Two). After leaving Disney during the strike, Tytla worked for a brief time at Terry-Toons before moving on to Famous Studios. This is one of his best cartoons for Terry during this period.




In particular, pay attention to Tytla's wonderful transformation sequence...








The animation of the cat running across the rooftops has a creepy sort of "man in a cat suit" feeling. At Terry-Toons, the animators were given much more latitude to handle scenes in their own particular style. Tytla takes full advantage of that in this cartoon.






Mighty Mouse Meets Jekyll & Hyde Cat (Terry/1944)
(Quicktime 7 / 13.8 megs)

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If you found this post to be interesting, you should also see... Canemaker On Tytla Part One and Part Two, The Temperamental Lion 1940, Catnip Capers 1940, Jim Tyer's Barnyard Actor 1955 and Terrytoons Lobby Cards

Many thanks to John Kricfalusi for donating this great cartoon to our archive.

Stephen Worth
Director
ASIFA-Hollywood
Animation Archive

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