The whip action (all over the place)

This time I wanted have a more in-depth look at the overlapping action.
Looking through some cartoons I discovered that it's used almost every time a character or an object (depending on the material of course) is moving.

The principle itself it's pretty much easy: whenever a part of the body is moving, the other connected part is dragged behind, and when the first part reaches his apex or stops his movement the second one catches up the same action.
I found that it's useful to think as divided parts, for example: when the arm is moving the forearm is dragging behind, followed by the hand (same goes for the relationship leg-ankle-foot).

Here are some studies from The Rescuers (1977) and Beauty and the Beast (1991)

You can see in this last example the overlapping action really clear:

The dress is making a C curve coming upwards (the wardrobe's hand is pulling it that direction), the part nearest the force (the hand in this case) on the right screen is up, the last part (left screen dress) is dragged downward.

In the second frame the first part of the dress is coming down, the last part is still dragged up.

In the third frame: the last part is still going down, the middle section is still dragged up, the last section (the "tail") is even more up.

Finally when the first part comes to a stop (facing upward because of the hand of the wardrobe), sections 2 and 3 are resolving the action coming down making an S curve.