Saturday, August 10, 2013

Dangerous Dan McFoo (1939, Dir. Tex Avery)

FILM: Dangerous Dan McFoo
YEAR: 1939
DIRECTOR: Tex Avery
PINBALL MODEL(S):  N/A
GAME LOCATION: Tavern/Lodge
NOTES:  Cartoons have been having fun with the possibilities of the pin-table since the early days of the art-form.  As with most animation, comedy is achieved by exaggerating and distorting the realism of the objects depicted.  The "marble game" that Dan is playing is a bizarre incarnation of a modern pin and a European table-top target game.  Of course, the physics of this animated universe precludes the game from responding in a predictable way, and hilarity ensues.

See the entire short-film here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wIfco183FY