Spanking in animation

Donald Duck spanks a little penguin.

Spanking in animation is as old as animation itself.

Many of the first technical devices for animation which were invented in the 19th century were based on the principle of cyclic animation. This means, a series of still images, so-called frames, was repeated in a cyclic sequence, which resulted in the illusion of perpetual repetitive motion. A girl rope-skipping, or a blacksmith hammering, for example, were popular motion types for cyclic animation.

And so was spanking. The repetitive motion made it perfect for cyclic animation, and its great humoristic potential inspired the pioneers of animation from the beginning. This resulted in various simple vintage spanking animations from the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century. These were the first spanking animations.

Spanking in cartoons

Cartoon animation in the early 20th century (Walt Disney et al.) brought new openings for non-cyclic spanking scenes. These usually featured cartoon characters, rather than human characters, and applied state-of-the-art principles such as exaggerated poses, gestures and expressions, takes, anticipated action, action and reaction, action lines, stretch and squash. There are nice spanking scenes in many mainstream cartoons such as Tom and Jerry and recently on The Simpsons.

Chronology

1935: The Fox and the Rabbit
1939: Life Begins for Andy Panda
1942: Pip-eye, Pup-eye, Poop-eye and Peep-eye (Popeye)
1946: The Milky Waif (Tom and Jerry)
1948: Professor Tom (Tom and Jerry)
1952: Triplet Trouble (Tom and Jerry)
1954: Touché, Pussy Cat! (Tom and Jerry)
1964: The Unshrinkable Jerry Mouse (Tom and Jerry)

Examples on YouTube


From "Birds in the Spring" (1933)	Cartoon Compilation (part 2).	Popeye the Sailor - Never Sock a Baby (1939).

"Dreams On Ice" (1939)	The Practical pig built a lie detector spanking machine.	Computer animation.