ON ROBBER ISLAND: Peter Pan's dog is a prisoner of Captain Hooked, and has convinced the pirate that Pan is living with the robbers. Hooked scans the landscape with his spyglass but sees nothing.
CAPTAIN HOOKED: "I have to tell ya, I don't see Pan, and I don't see any robbers."
CAPTAIN HOOKED: "Why would there be any robbers here, anyway?"
CAPTAIN HOOKED: "I'm the only person they ever steal from, and I don't live around here."
CAPTAIN HOOKED: "Now Mermaid Island, that's the place for a robber."
CAPTAIN HOOKED: "The mermaids have all that stupid fan merchandise of Peter Pan."
CAPTAIN HOOKED: "Imagine buying that stuff?"
CAPTAIN HOOKED: "You'd have to be so...Mmmph (His false teeth are removed in mid-speech)!"
Robbers restore his false teeth, hat, etc.
CAPTAIN HOOKED: "Well, I don't see any robbers. This is a deserted island. You brought me to a deserted island!"
CAPTAIN HOOKED: "Haw Haw! I guess the joke was on me! You sure put one over on the old Captain!"
CAPTAIN HOOKED: "That's alright! A little DOG PIE tonight, and I'll feel OK again!"
CAPTAIN HOOKED: "Wha?....What's wrong?"
END CREDITS: I did the black and white photo story and genius filmmaker Jim Arnold did the color film of the robbers!
Your hysterical photo comics always make me happy. If you were to ever compile these things into a book, I know I'd be more than willing to buy it!
ReplyDeleteAnd thank you so very much for including me in this!
Haw haw!
ReplyDeleteLOL.. that was tons of fun.. nice work! :D
ReplyDeleteMan, this is great, Eddie! Hook & the dog are the best characters yet. The staging on this one is especially good, which can't be easy when you're your own director/photographer.
ReplyDeleteLooking at it, I realise I don't use perspective as casually as I should animating dialog scenes. Your photo posts have a silent-film pantomime feel with a post-Citizen-Kane lens.
I have very little experience in CG movies, but it seems like they favor a long focal-length lens over wide-angle in close-ups & go to a long-shot flat proscenium staging to set up gags. Nowadays you can go anywhere with a virtual camera. You just enter a point in space & a vector.
I'd love to get your insight as a story man on why animation cinematography is stuck in the 1930's.
Jim's walks are amazing & you can distinguish each robber by his style even without costume changes. The timing is superb!
That Jim dude is the shit. Chaplin and Keaton live on in his genes. And Raymond Scott just came all over himself in his grave.
ReplyDeleteHey Eddie, you gave us some skin!!
ReplyDeleteAnimation cinematography remains stuck about 1937 because of the mold cast by Disney in "Snow White" that never really varied. The nine old men allegedly went to see Fellini films and such in the late sixties, aware that they should try something to break that pattern, but then they discovered acid and made "Robin Hood."
ReplyDeleteJim: Thanks much! You did a fantastic job, as always! The walks, the heads peaking around the corner, the guys in the grass, the group shot against the wall, the victim getting robbed, the guy stealing from the birdfeeder and the theft of the outdoor furniture, the guy circling the tree or the one coming out of a pipe...all were priceless!
ReplyDeletePappy: Interesting subject! I tend to move the camera less on acted comedy scenes, and more on dramatic and action scenes, but that's just an average. Really you want to give the scene whatever it requires.
I guess you saw Monster House. That had a lot of camera movement for a 3D film.
Jim: Thanks much! You did a fantastic job, as always! The walks, the heads peaking around the corner, the guys in the grass, the group shot against the wall, the victim getting robbed, the guy stealing from the birdfeeder and the theft of the outdoor furniture, the guy circling the tree or the one coming out of a pipe...all were priceless!
ReplyDeletePappy: Interesting subject! I tend to move the camera less on acted comedy scenes, and more on dramatic and action scenes, but that's just an average. Really you want to give the scene whatever it requires.
I guess you saw Monster House. That had a lot of camera movement for a 3D film.
Jim and Eddie:
ReplyDeleteYou guys are solely responsible for restoring my faith in the internet.
People think that just because they have a camera and some free time ( or free editing software ) that they can make a movie.
But the key ingredient is talent, and you two gentlemen have it in spades!!
Thanks for making my morning so laugh-filled! I wish there was something I could do to return the favor.
Well, I'll get back to you on that.
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HILARIOUS!! I think using socks for the dog's ears instead of getting a dog costume actually makes it funnier.
ReplyDeleteThe Robber Dance was a riot! What an ode to Buster Keaton!
P.S. I noticed the Staples card in the wallet.
Jennifer: Haw! Yeah, I'd just gotten some things at Staples. August is when they sell their gel pens cheap so I always load up. I hardly ever use ballpoints any more.
ReplyDeletehysterical and brillant as always..been a bad week for me so far(and its only monday!) but this cheered me up!i wonder was that your son assisting with the hands? i gotta wonder what he thinks of all of this-daddys crazy-yes but in the best possible way, i think we could all use a dad who had your sense of humor uncle eddie!
ReplyDeleteThanks Eddie. I've missed my Eddie TV lately and this one was a hoot. Doggie pie and all.
ReplyDeleteTalking: The assistant was a neighbor. I wish I could get my kid to play some of the girl parts in these photo stories. Most of my friends are comedy people and I get a lot of flack everytime I wear a girl's wig for a sketch.
ReplyDeleteKen: Thanks!