Hopping Mad
“Inki and the Minah Bird” brings our Great Directors Week to a close — vintage weirdness from Warner Brothers’ elegant auteur, Chuck Jones. There were only a handful of cartoons made starring little Inki and his friend/prey, the Minah Bird, and they all have pretty much the same, offbeat set-up: a small African boy goes hunting — runs across a dour looking, hopping bird with magical powers. Oddness ensues. That’s it!
These are all great looking cartoons — terrific backgrounds, and wonderful character animation. I really dig the ‘acting’ here (I think this is one of the few WB cartoons in which the great Shamus Culhane stretched his animating muscles.) Those bit-part bugs early in the proceedings are especially cool.
Monday — new week, new theme!
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