Speaking of the Allison house...

[Mayfield Historical Socie]

Check this out:



From the 1948 Looney Tunes cartoon called 'Scaredy Cat'.

See any similarities?

Mark

[frenchjr25]

Almost exactly the same. Look at the front part of the porch. WOW!

[Mayfield Historical Socie]

Yep- I've seen other generic haunted house illustrations that resembled the Psycho and/or Allison houses many times before, but what really got me with this one was the porch.

Its so similar that I'm wondering if there is an actual connection- in 1948 the Allison house certainly existed, and Warner Bros' was just across the lake from Universal- likely one of the animators had been on the Univ. backlot.

M

[BionixWV]

Well, check this out. Someone made a Bates Motel/House for Sims 3, which came out last spring.

http://www.brothersoft.com/games/sims3- ... house.html

I've downloaded the lot, and installed it, and it needs some work,like the house being too wide, for one,lol.

[frenchjr25]

Yep- I've seen other generic haunted house illustrations that resembled the Psycho and/or Allison houses many times before, but what really got me with this one was the porch.

Its so similar that I'm wondering if there is an actual connection- in 1948 the Allison house certainly existed, and Warner Bros' was just across the lake from Universal- likely one of the animators had been on the Univ. backlot.

M

Yeah, the house was new at that point in time. Because of how cool the set looked in So Goes My Love I would not be surprised if someone from Warner's went and looked at it. I mean, the sets were so important that Universal put them in storage and rebuilt exactly as they were originally built when they were placed on the backlot.