Saturday Morning Cartoons: Tex Avery’s “SH-H-H-H-H-H”
Here’s something you’ve probably never seen before: a Tex Avery cartoon from 1955 produced by Walter Lantz simply called “Sh-h-h-h-h-h”.
This was Tex Avery’s last animated short cartoon. The sounds of the trumpet player and the laughing woman who keep the man awake through the night are taken directly from the novelty OKeh Laughing Record, which was released in 1923. The voice, of course, is Daws Butler. Beyond that, we should obviously say no more. Enjoy.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w0QoQX48kw[/youtube]
I’ve discovered that i must be out of step – i generally find Tex Avery shorts mildly amusing at best. (I feel the same about Carl Barks duck stories, too)
I only relatively recently (in the last twenty or so years vs. the fifty-plus since i first saw it) that i found out that what i thought was the one Tex Avery cartoon that i unreservedly loved was actually by Bob Clampett.
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