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SUMMARY The three Dover Boys, Tom, Dick, and Larry, are having a day out with their lady friend, "dainty" Dora Stanpipe, but are called upon to rescue Dora when she is kidnapped by stock villain Dan Backslide, whose feelings for Dora are summed up in his comment, "How I love her....(father's money!)" Backslide takes Dora to a remote mountain cabin, but discovers that despite appearances, Dora is anything but "dainty"; she proceeds to give him quite a beating while still acting the damsel in distress, crying for help and pounding on the door. When the Dover Boys (finally) arrive, they proceed to lay a few punches on a barely conscious Backslide before managing to knock each other out as Backslide collapses to the floor beneath their swinging fists. Dora is then escorted away by an odd man in a sailor suit who was a Running Gag throughout the cartoon, appearing periodically to interrupt the story by walking up, jumping in place, and moving on; he and Dora repeat these movements as they walk (and hop) off into the sunset. NOTES This cartoon is notable for being one of the earliest examples of Stylized Animation , a technique which used shape-heavy designs with minimal movement, as opposed to the type of animation done at that time by the Walt Disney studio. Jones has said that Schlesinger and the Warner Bros . studio executives were less than pleased when they screened ''The Dover Boys'', and went through the process of attempting to fire him. A replacement for Jones could not be easily found, so he was kept aboard. Stylized Animation would later be made famous by the artists at startup animation studio UPA , for which Jones moonlighted to direct the political film '' Hell-Bent For Re-Election '' in 1944. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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