Cowboy Krazy Kat battles a western-style bad guy, while a little Indian brave tries to help in this hodge podge of a cartoon.
There's singing, there's violence, there's even signs that Ben Harrison and Manny Gould are trying to apply rotoscoping to their simple character designs to offer realistic motion -- if that's what's going on, it looks bizarre.
The cartoonists were going through a fallow period after a dozen years of doing this particular branded series. Meanwhile, Charles Mintz was growing ill, and the other cartoonists in his stable were producing stuff that varied from cloying to unfunny, with a few gems in the rubbish heap. It looks like the folks who ran this franchise were trying to offer suggestions, but their influence was negligible, and their own work suffered as a result. It would not be until Mintz' death in 1940 that Columbia would clear house and try to impose some order.... and would fail through lack of stability until the late 1940s, when they handed everything over to UPA.
There's singing, there's violence, there's even signs that Ben Harrison and Manny Gould are trying to apply rotoscoping to their simple character designs to offer realistic motion -- if that's what's going on, it looks bizarre.
The cartoonists were going through a fallow period after a dozen years of doing this particular branded series. Meanwhile, Charles Mintz was growing ill, and the other cartoonists in his stable were producing stuff that varied from cloying to unfunny, with a few gems in the rubbish heap. It looks like the folks who ran this franchise were trying to offer suggestions, but their influence was negligible, and their own work suffered as a result. It would not be until Mintz' death in 1940 that Columbia would clear house and try to impose some order.... and would fail through lack of stability until the late 1940s, when they handed everything over to UPA.
