Paul J. Smith Animation

Paul J. Smith was an American animator at Walt Disney, Harmon-Ising, UPA, Warner Bros. and Walter Lantz. He is mostly known for directing animated shorts at Lantz beginning around the 1950s to 1972 (and became the studio's sole director at 1967). He is remembered for animation notable firsts, such as animating the first shot of Tex Avery's redesigned Bugs Bunny in "A Wild Hare" (1940), becoming one of Walt Disney's first Hollywood employees and hypothetically inbetweening on the first Mickey Mouse.

Smith's animation might seem serviceable at first, but implements unique animation ideas, such as multiples, speed lines and abstraction. Around his arrival at Lantz, he starts to update his animation style; what was a carry-over from the Walt/Harmon-Ising period becomes a unique energetic way of updating to the timing and principles of fast energetic animation in the 1940s and onward.

Music used: "The Brittwood Stomp (I'm A Ding Dong Daddy)" & "Jam Fever" by Frank Newton, "Traffic Jam" by Artie Shaw and His Orchestra

All clips are presumed and use the best available information. They were verified by a circle of notable historians at the time:
0:00 - The Reckless Driver (1946)
0:10 - The Poet & Peasant (1946)
0:19 - Daffy Duck & Egghead (1938)
0:24 - Ski For Two (1944)
0:29 - Little Red Walking Hood (1937)
0:38 - Ski For Two (1944)
0:44 - The Pied Piper of Basin Street (1945)
0:48 - The Redwood Sap (1951)
0:50 - Chew-Chew Baby (1945)
0:54 - Honesty is the Best Policy (1946)
1:01 - Bathing Buddies (1946)
1:06 - The Booze Hangs High (1930)
1:26 - The Miner's Daughter (1950)
1:30 - The Booze Hangs High (1930)
1:37 - Wicket Wacky (1951)
1:47 - Smoked Hams (1947)
1:51 - Buddy the Detective (1934)
2:00 - The Dippy Diplomat (1945)
2:05 - A Wild Hare (1940)
2:25 - Stage Hoax (1952)
2:39 - Congo Jazz (1930)
2:58 - Scalp Treatment (1952)
3:07 - Hollywood Steps Out (1941) (UNCONFIRMED, SCENE PRESUMED TO BE SID SUTHERLAND)
3:11 - The Beach Nut (1944)
3:25 - A Bear's Tale (1940)
3:31 - The Dippy Diplomat (1945)
3:35 - A Bear's Tale (1940)
3:44 - What's Sweepin' (1953) (UNCONFIRMED, SCENE PRESUMED TO BE ANNA OSBORNE)
3:52 - Apple Andy (1946)
4:02 - The Pied Piper of Basin Street (1945)
4:05 - Termites From Mars (1952)
4:19 - Porky's Hare Hunt (1938)
4:28 - Woody Dines Out (1945)
4:50 - She Was An Acrobat's Daughter (1937)
4:59 - Hollywood Steps Out (1941) (UNCONFIRMED, SCENE PRESUMED TO BE SID SUTHERLAND)
5:01 - A Gander at Mother Goose (1940)
5:11 - The Great Who-Dood-It (1952)
5:13 - Ration Bored (1943)
5:19 - The Beach Nut (1944)
5:21 - Smoked Hams (1947)
5:22 - The Loose Nut (1945)
5:41 - The Beach Nut (1944)
5:46 - Crow Crazy (1945)
5:47 - The Dizzy Acrobat (1943)
6:02 - Fish Tales (1936)
6:08 - The Miner's Daughter (1950)
6:11 - What's Sweepin' (1953)
6:24 - Scalp Treatment (1952)
6:26 - Woodpecker in the Rough (1952)
6:30 - The Great Who-Dood-It (1952)
6:38 - Wicket Wacky (1951)
6:44 - Daffy Duck in Hollywood (1938)
6:49 - The Great Who-Dood-It (1952)
6:51 - Boogie Woogie Man Will Get You If You Don't Watch Out (1943)
6:56 - What's Sweepin' (1953) (UNCONFIRMED, SCENE PRESUMED TO BE ANNA OSBORNE)
6:58 - Woodpecker in the Rough (1952)
7:01 - The Great Who-Dood-It (1952)
7:04 - The Reckless Driver (1946)
7:10 - The Great Who-Dood-It (1952)
7:11 - Chew-Chew Baby (1945)
7:14 - Daffy Duck & Egghead (1938)
7:15 - Smoked Hams (1947)

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