Jack’s Back
Elf Help Week comes to a colorful close pretty much the way we started — with a tale all about a creepy looking sprite messing around with seasonal transitions.
“Jack Frost” is a first rate Ub Iwerks ComiColor Cartoon from 1934 set to a jaunty Carl Stallings score. Granted, choices about camera angles, editing and Filmmaking 101 type stuff are pretty prosaic — and, boy, those woodland animals sure are a bland bunch. But once we get around to the jack o’ lantern chorus and that scat singing, rotoscoped scarecrow, things really start to pop!
Then there’s Jack Frost himself! I love that 1930’s character design — from the cusp of his baloney nose to the zig zaggy tips of his little elf shoes. His whole artist-at-large thing provides some really inventive business, like those frost-landscapes painted on window panes. And what do you think of the ‘in character’ way he saves the bear cub in the end?
Well, enough with pointy ears and such. Next week we’re callin’ the cops!
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