Wild poses like this one show that however much Robert McKimson may have wanted to calm down his animators, in the early years he didn't (or perhaps couldn't) restrain them that much. From Gorilla My Dreams (1948)
by Rachel Newstead
Fans and historians alike usually classify Robert McKimson–unfairly, I 
think–as a superb animator, but a poor director. Granted, his cartoons don’t appear to contain even a fraction of the insanity of those of the man for whom he once animated, Bob Clampett; still, the cartoons of his earliest years as a director (1946-1950) rank as some of the funniest to ever come out of the studio. Easter Yeggs, Daffy Doodles, Boobs In The Woods, Hillbilly Hare–these
made me hold my sides with laughter when I first saw them, something even the funniest Bob Clampett cartoons never quite managed to do. Continue reading
