Below are frame grabs from all the Popeye cartoons that Hastings worked on before leaving the Fleischer Studio. Check out his animation in 'Pleased to Meet Cha!' - there's some really bizarre action of Popeye and Bluto walking from one room and continuing into another. It feels as though they have glue on their shoes.
The Dance Contest - 1934
We Aim to Please - 1934
Beware of Barnacle Bill - 1935
Be Kind to 'Aminals' - 1935
Pleased to Meet Cha! - 1935
Dizzy Divers - 1935
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What happened to Hastings after leaving Fleischers? Did he work at another New York studio?
Hi Bob, Do you know what was the pencil of choice was for the Fleischer animators?
I'm not sure where Hastings went after New York. Here's a site that I reference then verify through credits:
http://www.immaginariofiorentino.com/albertopage/index.html
It has Hastings listed as a questionable employee at Dsney then opening his own studio. I can't verify either.
Larry - Sorry I don't know what the pencil of choice was for the Fleischer animators. I know for a fact that John Gentilella (Famous Studio animator and assistant at the Fleischers) used a carpenter's pencil to do his animation.
Are there many other examples of west coast animators moving east to work with the Fleischer's? It seems like it was usually the other way around (east coast animators leaving the Fleischer's to move out west)
The biggest migration of west coast animators going east was to Miami to work on Gulliver. Some Disney and WB animators made the trip.
Anybody know of any other west coast animator migrations to the Fleischers before Gulliver started??
After leaving Disney, Friz Freleng moved to New York City to work on Krazy Kat, before moving back to California to join Harman-Ising.
Oops, Krazy Kat wasn't at Fleischers, of course. I thought you meant west coast animators migrating to ANY east coast studio.
Reuben Timmins (credited as Reuben Timinsky at Fleischer's) was animating with a carpenter's pencil late in his career. I don't know what he used forty years earlier on the East Coast.
That's the guy! Thanks Bob for curing my ignorance. There's a wartime cartoon where Popeye and Bluto beat up Japs together (apologies to my Japanese friends). Bluto looks really scary and massive in it. I don't know the title but it's from 1943 I think.
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