![]() ![]() Milt Franklyn's music is rhythmically lively and is beautifully orchestrated, also doing well to fit with the action without quite enhancing it as effortlessly as Carl Stalling. The backgrounds avoid being sparse and are far from lifeless, while Chuck Jones' animation style is all over it and instantly recognisable. Here the animation is bright and colourful as well as fluidly drawn while adopting a sketchier drawing style than what was seen before. Mel Blanc, yes this is one of the few instances where Coyote talks (the others being his highly entertaining cartoons with none other than Bugs Bunny), does typically wonderfully with the characterisation and it is some of his most subtle voice work. The dialogue is sharp and witty, displaying Coyote's interesting personality very well indeed. They are still very well-animated and are never less than highly amusing. 'Roadrunner a Go Go's' sight gags are not the most hilarious of the series, with the cliff gag while still very funny being smelt a mile off, or the most visually imaginative. The mockumentary scenes presented by Coyote display brilliantly Coyote's intelligence and cunning wit in finding solutions to his many errors (which are just as well done as the errors), and even though he is not doing any physical comedy in these scenes he is still very funny and who cannot help root for him. The use of stock footage coupled with its mockumentary style could have come across as pointless if executed wrong, and could have been cheaply done, but actually it is very well done and clever. It is not one of the classics, in a series of cartoons that are mostly really enjoyable with the best ones being brilliant, but it is nowhere among one of the duds like the mid to late 60s cartoons. 'Roadrunner a Go Go' is like 'Fastest with the Mostest', also viewed for the first time recently. While this was by no means the last Road Runner short, nor the last to be directed by Chuck Jones, it represents for both an apex of quality. This short features stock scenes from 1961's Zip 'n Snort before cutting to its signature gag, the catapult that was reused in 1963's To Beep Or Not To Beep with new Bill Lava music comparing both scenes with their differing scores today shows how much better Milt Franklyn and the mammoth Warner studio orchestra truly were in scoring compared to the more bare-boned efforts of Lava it also displays the vast superiority of the classic Franklyn-scored 1950s opening title compared to the cheesier Lava-scored "Merry Go Round Broke Down" theme substituted. (today of course he'd also have digital film, DVDs, and so forth littered about with his spools of film and reams of slides, which would make for some even more interesting backgrounds). notating observations on flaws in his previous schemes, as he explains to the audience the painstaking research he undertakes to correct errors in a hazardous life such as his - here Maurice Noble and company add enormously to the short's atmosphere in the use of elaborate backgrounds of the vast libraries of film, still slides, etc. This short uses the musical intro from Adventures (featuring some very effective animation of flowers blooming the the morning sunlight) complete with roto-scoped remake of the three-way road split gag from 1958's Hip! Hip! Hurry! before cutting to the cliffside rope trick and its unfortunate outcome. speaks - he'd spoken in Bugs Bunny cartoons other than 1963's Road Runner fill-in Hare Breadth Hurry, but never in the Road Runner cartoons. Of the two, Roadrunner A Go Go is the better, for it focuses on the actual pursuit of the famed speedster by his Coyote counterpart as, for the first time in the Road Runner series, Wile E. Subscriptions help fund the work we do every day.1962's Adventures Of The Road Runner featurette was a zenith in the most popular series directed by Chuck Jones, and it yielded two semi-compilation shorts released independently in 1965. This includes unlimited access to, full Gear coverage, and subscriber-only newsletters. Special offer for Gear readers: Get WIRED for just $5 ($25 off). Updated July 2023: We added the Bontrager waist pack, the Moment Long Weekend, and the Beis diaper pack. Best of all, they're so much more convenient than trying to fit your enormous phone into a pants pocket. They can go from the hiking trail to the bar without skipping a beat, and they can hold your train ticket and fit into a backpack while traveling. You can carry the weight in your front, swing it around to the back, or sling it over a shoulder. But now, we're just happy to share our affection with a wider audience.įanny packs don't make your back sweat or twist your spine. Before the resurgence of all things the 1990s, this might have been an unpopular confession. Here at WIRED, we love fanny packs (or waist belts, bum bags, whatever you want to call them). ![]()
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