![]() ![]() And we hear Don Messick’s straight-forward narration: “Travelling to California in the early days of the West was a long and dangerous journey. We hear the clip-clop of Geordie Hormel’s “Western Song” (it’s called that even though there are no lyrics). The opening scene is of a wagon train crossing the prairie. It looks like these ones have been chopped off at the bottom with a ruler. Art Lozzi may be responsible the rolling reddish hills elsewhere in the cartoon are the same as in “Talky Hawky.” The clouds, though, in the opening shot, aren’t the lumpy ones that Lozzi drew in other cartoons around the same time. This is another cartoon with those rose-coloured, shadowed bluffs in the background (see the cow frame above). I’ve slowed down the animation so you can take a look. There’s a little rolling snout thing he does with Quick Draw McGraw in a couple of cartoons, and he does it here when Quick Draw laughs. There are no credits on this cartoon but the animator’s unmistakeably Dick Lundy. Very stripped down stylistically, much like in “Talky Hawky” that season. He gets hauled away, with Don Messick giving out a plantive “Mooo!”Īnd here are some of Rivera’s settlers. The incidental character designs and props are by layout artist Tony Rivera. The only thing really weak is the ending because it doesn’t resolve anything nor does it top any of the previous dialogue routines. Even the stock music works well, as Jack Shaindlin’s “Crazy Goof” surfaces in several scenes. That’s what “Yippee Coyote” gives the viewer-convoluted logic, a smart-aleck bad guy who fools the good guy with disguises, a fast line of patter and action, and a silly Jerry Lewis voice from Daws Butler that makes almost any dialogue sound funny with incorrect inflection and emphasis. It’s great to see all the elements of a cartoon working together, especially in limited animation where the style of movement can’t be depended on to pick up the slack. Plot: Wagon Master Quick Draw battles cow-rustling Yippee Coyote. Louis Merkur, unknown.įirst Aired: week of Janu(rerun week of May 29, 1961).Įpisode: Quick Draw McGraw Show M-033, Production J-101. Music: Jack Shaindlin, Phil Green, Geordie Hormel, J. Voices: Quick Draw, Baba Looey, Wagon Master,Yippee Coyote – Daws Butler Narrator, Banjo Player, Cow – Don Messick. Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Īnimation – Dick Lundy Layout – Tony Rivera Backgrounds – ? Story – Mike Maltese Story Director – Alex Lovy Titles – Art Goble Production Supervision – Howard Hanson.
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