ub iwerk's chick artist 3

3.Design.
one thing about ub's studio,their style of movement is startlingly similar to today's animation:the
motion of most characters are often fast and quickly-timed in their actions.many of the FTFs are an example of this.the main thing,tho,is that the char designs must cooperate with the quick
moving
animation.grim,along with shamus,berny and al were partial to this,al eugster especially.one example of al's good designs is the ComiColor The Headless Horseman.this is a animated version of
Washington Irving's classic tale of romance,rivalry and fear.the first thing we see(besides ub and
carl's[stalling's]credits)is the well-established love triangle:katrina van tussel(who is an obese-looking woman),brom bones,muscular and quite hansome,and the protaganist,ichabod crane,tall and lanky.after an example of how the LT goes,we see icky at work:a teacher at school.he reads the
same book the short is based on and is horrified.we see the same image outside(strangly,it is in broad
daylight),but it quickly dissolves to a African-American messanger on a donkey,who delivers a
letter to icky,who at first thinks it is the HH is after him as pictured in his thought cloud,but when came
to,takes it and smiles at said messanger,who smiles back.the invatation is the cue for the main
story to begin.it reads:
Dear Icky,
tonite there's a brawl at Van Tussel Hall.
Katrina.
icky is,of course delighted and sends the kids home early,at which they pour out of the building in glee.after washing up,icky goes on his way over,brom too.
at afore-mentioned shindig,brom brings katrina her boquet,dispatching our homely hero in the
process,but katrina glares at him and lets icky in.another black is seen:he rings the dinner bell,as
packs of guests stampede into the room and leave the table bare and matless.icky and brom sit
with katrina and share with her their meals.one thing to note is how icky and brom's meals consist of cake and some-probably ice cream-white substance,wheras the other guests dine on more elaborate foods.after, they profess their love for her,then Gomez Adams-style kiss her up
her arms,but upon reaching her head,she ducks and they kiss each other instead.upon realizing
this,brom declares a fight against our nerdy-friend,but icky's got a few tricks up his sleeve;he
emerges from a brief self-huddle wearing glasses,so he can't get hurt.much later,the three-black
man-band strike up a country tune and everyone starts dancing.icky cuts brom out of the picture for a while so he can cut a rug with katrina.while they do,brom imagines icky as 3 unlikable beasts:a snake,a skunk,and at the end of the dance,a mule(you can guess the joke asso-
iated with icky's head on a mule's body).
much later,some old geezer-tpye tells the title tale.upon hearing it,brom conducts a hostile plot
against icky.after that,the grandfather clock chimes for everyone to go home.when brom tries to
say goodbye,katrina spurns him.however,after he storms out,she imagines him as Clark Gable.
icky too tries to make a play for her,but is thrown out.while riding home in the dark,icky meets
up with his feared foe:the Headless Horseman.he tries to escape on his own mediocre nag,but the
HH thows a pumpkin at him,knocking him off his horse,after which,icky jumps out of a puddle and runs off into the night.of course,we learn it was all brom's doing as retaliation,and he laughs
heartly-if not sadisticly-after the whole she-bang.with icky out of the way,brom can finally get
down to more important things:marrying katrina.as the iwerks-styled bells say "bong" several
times,brom bones and katrina van tussel are married.at that moment,the HH reappears,and both husband and wife flee,as well as the guests and the preacher.in the end,however,it turns to
be none other than Ichabod Crane,who laughs at his somewhat revenge as we iris out.an early
entry in the ComiColor series,but icky's revenge-it's not fair that brom married katrina and all he did was scare everyone out of the churchhouse.then again,it's an Ub Iwerks cartoon;sense and comeuppance come second often.availible on The Ub Iwerks Collection DVD.in supposedly
good shape and self-opinioned enjoyable.