The 20 Best of Vernon Stallings
A list of the twenty best credits from animator Vernon Stalling’s career.
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- DirectorVernon StallingsA loud crash disturbs the next door neighbor, who immediately thinks a murder is happening so he calls the sheriff. But when the lawman finds the whole thing is beyond his control he thinks it's better call the help of other authorities, who later on will get a strange surprise.Stallings directed this “Jerry on the Job” short for Bray Studios.
- DirectorVernon StallingsWhen the New Monia station is overrun with mice, Mr. Givney can only shoot them one at a time, but Jerry uses a flute to lure them out, "Pied Piper of Hamlin" style.
- DirectorVernon StallingsAn elephant cop is flirting with a Hippopotumus girl in the park. Nervy Ignatz stands up to him, and scares him off, impressing the girl. Meanwhile, the cop fortifies himself with "Beevo", and returns to stomp Ignatz. Krazy takes Iggy for dead, and serenades his memory, but he's still alive enough to throw bricks.
- DirectorVernon Stallings
- DirectorWalt HobanVernon StallingsA man reads in the newspaper that Bolsheviks are on the loose and that the public should beware of odd acting strangers. He spots a pipe smoking man holding what he believes is a bomb, and thinks he must be one of the Bolsheviks. He tries to get away from the stranger, but the stranger seems to be following him, polishing his bomb and getting ready to light it. But that round bomb ends up having a more recreational use of a different type of explosion.Stallings co-directs.
- DirectorVernon StallingsBoxer Ignatz Mouse bets against himself in a match, then tries to lose the fight on purpose. But Ignatz's wife and Krazy Kat, both unaware of the bet, conspire to make sure Ignatz wins.
- DirectorWalt HobanVernon StallingsStallings co-directed this.
- DirectorGregory La CavaVernon Stallings
- DirectorVernon StallingsStallings co-directs this short starring Jerry, the flagship character.
- DirectorGregory La CavaVernon Stallings
- DirectorGregory La Cava
- DirectorRube GoldbergStarsRube GoldbergThe reel, which is a burlesque on current news events, starts with the entrance of R.D. Goldberg, the cartoonist, to his office. He is attired in a frock coat and striped trousers, the dignity of which is belied by his contagious smile and the title which follows: "When you see the cartoonist you will probably think the secret of his genius lies in the peculiar cut of his coat. But it doesn't; it is not his own coat." He sits down to draw, but finds he has no ink. This is an awful state of affairs, and he calls the negro porter to his aid. So pathetic does he make his want known that the dusky one is moved to tears, and saves the situation, for he weeps the precious fluid. Goldberg gets enough to work with and dismisses the dinge with this injunction: "Cry a little later on, I might want to shine my shoes." Then comes the cartoon itself, a few of the titles of which may give a faint idea of the action they describe. Simp City, Texas: One-week old son of Mr. and Mrs. Hannibal M. Sawdust, showing the result of the new scientific method of bringing up a child on powdered pool balls and sterilized bay rum. This infant at the age of one week uses a safety razor and plays a good game of pinochle. A Study in Natural History: Trapping the wild African collar-button in the haberdashery fields of the Umslopogus. The collar-button is near sighted and is easily fooled. Paris Fashions Direct from Hoboken: Something smart and snappy to be worn while being beaten by your husband. The Shoplifter's Muff: It can hold anything but a grand piano.
- DirectorWalt HobanVernon Stallings
- DirectorRube GoldbergThis animated cartoon, which is the second of the Goldberg series, tells the story of a forty-seven-year-old maiden who would have been more popular if all men were nearsighted. The maid is described as Miss Ophelia Fade-Out, whose face has frightened all the children in the neighborhood, but who, nevertheless, still hopes to "chloroform some poor simp into matrimony." She gives orders to the janitor to hold a sack under the sidewalk and "wait for my future husband to drop into it." Then she rigs up a contrivance with the manhole whereby the unwary will drop through and be bagged. But the men who pass are watched over by a special Providence and she is at last forced to the extremity of taking a tailor's dummy to the justice of the peace.
- DirectorRube GoldbergThe picture starts with this injunction: "Before looking at this picture, please check your brains at the box office." It then goes on showing the inspiration and transmission of a series of war-like notes from the Secretary of State to the King of Bologna: the great fire in Dopem and Chokem's Drug Store, causing a loss of $3,70 worth of merchandise and the night watchman's whiskers; Chief T.M. Drowsy, of the Deadbury fire department, whose heroic work in keeping the fire going till the rest of the department woke up, saved the day; and "the Egyptian Bumpus, a strange bird that lives on door knobs and carpet tacks and barks like a fruit peddler."
- DirectorRube GoldbergThe subject opens with Ammonia Emtydome, who is the maid of all work. When father gets his shirt back it is so full of holes he feels like a sponge. Ammonia is supposed to serve dinner. Thus the madam of the house a la Goldberg: "By the time she brings dinner we'll either starve to death or die of old age." Well, Ammonia gets the B.R. (Bum's Rush) and would ordinarily starve. But not Ammonia. She gets hooked up with a guy who's taking a motion picture and who needs "a girl with a face like something that was started but never finished." He tells her, "You must first start posing as a hamburg steak. Just look perfectly natural." And Ammonia leaps into fame. Her old mistress hasn't heard from her and imagines she has walked off a dock. Then "the poor, clumsy boob comes back" fresh from her conquests in filmdom and flashing diamonds in all directions, and madam does a fadeout that would defy any ordinary bottle of smelling salts to bring her to.
- DirectorRube GoldbergWe're going to let Goldberg, the cartoonist, tell the story of his picture cartoon, by printing a few of the subtitles of the film. Well then: "Lotta Mincemeat," the beautiful heroine of his romance, admired for her charm and refinement, eats soup without walking the Nut Sundae, an honest soda clerk, betrothed to Lotta, has amassed a fortune of $81.30 by putting sawdust in the ice cream soda. I. Pickup, a prosperous junk dealer, who is determined to steal Lotta from Nut, has tempted her with a nickel's worth of chewing gum and a horse-car ride, but she sticks to Nut. Julius Mincemeat, father of Lotta, who makes pies for a living, but who gets his income from his hardware business through which he sells hammers and axes to make an impression on his pies, sees Pickup in the act of forcibly showering his attentions and hands on Lotta, and delivers himself, as follows: "My child is being attacked. I hope she doesn't scratch the furniture in the struggle," etc., etc., until Nut Sundae, falsely imprisoned, has "a sudden inspiration." He disguises himself as an orange phosphate and spills through the bars to liberty, and Lotta.
- The following inserts taken from the picture itself will give some idea of the character of the film. Let Goldberg tell it: "At my salary of $12 a week I would have to work a year to buy her a light lunch" muses a poor shrimp on looking at his well-upholstered queen. "Fatima decides to reduce. She follows Lillian Russell's example to roll it off. Doctor Grabcoin the great beef specialist recommends hot noodle soup baths for reducing and she takes the doctor's advice." There are a number of other cartoons before the subject is ended.
- DirectorGregory La Cava
- DirectorRube GoldbergThis Goldberg cartoon begins with friend wife's admonition to her meal-ticket, thus: "Herman, you stay at home and mind Sylvester. I must attend a suffragette meeting in Rough-house Hall." Then she leaves. Herman gets a hurry call from his pasteboard pals and answers, "All right, Joe, save a stack of chips for me. I'll be right over," and adds to himself, "I might win enough to buy the little boob something nice like a bottle of medicine." At the suffrage meeting friend wife argues that "the only thing we will allow the men to keep for themselves is the right to shave." Herman, a loser at the greatest indoor sport, is about to end it all and delivers himself thus, a la Goldberg: "Little Sylvester can keep from starving by selling the flowers the members of the lodge place on my grave." At home, little Sylvester, who has been deposited in the wastepaper basket, wherein he finds a bottle of hair tonic. Thus Goldberg: "The hair tonic, with the help of old age, causes Sylvester to look like a dish of spinach." Sylvester's hair grows so rapidly that it becomes cramped for space in the room and trails out of the window, piling itself up in the form of a haystack, and a passing farmer with an eye to business sticks his pitchfork into it, and unwittingly, takes up hair, Sylvester, and everything else attached.
- DirectorWalt HobanVernon Stallings