Barney Bear goes camping, and discovers that the great outdoors are no place to get a good night's sleep in this episode of the MGM cartoon series.
Like most of the Barney Bear series -- indeed, like a lot of MGM cartoons when you got out of the Tex Avery unit -- it makes extensive use of silent film techniques and very little dialogue. The only voices heard are on the radio, and the sounds are mostly the movie's score and sound effects. Although director Rudy Ising was thoroughly conversant with talkie techniques, his roots were in silent film making -- he was one of the people who had begun with Walt Disney back in Kansas City -- and he didn't use talk when he could direct a good visual gag.
Like most of the Barney Bear series -- indeed, like a lot of MGM cartoons when you got out of the Tex Avery unit -- it makes extensive use of silent film techniques and very little dialogue. The only voices heard are on the radio, and the sounds are mostly the movie's score and sound effects. Although director Rudy Ising was thoroughly conversant with talkie techniques, his roots were in silent film making -- he was one of the people who had begun with Walt Disney back in Kansas City -- and he didn't use talk when he could direct a good visual gag.
