Here is the last spooky cartoon I’m going to get to before Halloween… check out the expanding Directory of Vintage Spooky Cartoons here. It will continue to be updated as long as I keep finding more… and there are a lot more out there still. This is a Terrytoon called Who Killed Cock Robin! from 1933, discovered courtesy of the Saturday Morning Blog.
Read more about this cartoon on The Big Cartoon Database here.
Here is a fun and very surreal Willie Whopper cartoon from Ub Iwerks.
Read more about this cartoon on The Big Cartoon Database.
This cartoon, along with almost all of Ub Iwerks cartoons for his own studio, are available on the excellent DVDs The Cartoons that time Forgot Volume One
Interesting to note that the color in the Ub Iwerks Comicolor cartoons on these DVDs seems to have held up much better than the color on the previously mentioned Fleischer Color Classics on the Somewhere in Dreamland set… or at least seems to have faded differently. The blues in these cartoons are much more brilliant than the blues in any of the Fleischer Color Classics. If someone actually restored the color in the cartoons in either set, I would guess the they would look quite candy-store different.
Another excellent, surreal Betty Boop cartoon… I love the Jabberwocky in this. The featured song in it, “How Do You Do,” is an altered version of the song “Everyone Says I Love You.” Below is Groucho Marx’s wonderful version of that song from Horse Feathers (1932) (starts at 36 seconds in or so). There are other great versions of that song in Horse Feathers as well… note that you can see the entire movie on YouTube starting here. I’ve exported the music from both movies as mp3’s for your listening pleasure… you can grab those here.
Read more about this cartoon on the Big Cartoon Database here.
A great, great short by Ladislaw Starewicz, The Mascot, in three parts. I posted a short excerpt from this cartoon previously… this is the full cartoon at a much better quality. The Mascot is one of the most bizarre and beautiful puppet animations I’ve ever seen. And it has a monkey! Don’t miss it!
Part 1
Part 2
Part3
Read more about Ladislaw Starewicz at Animation Heaven and Hell.
Read more about Ladislaw Starewicz at Wikipedia.
See a tribute site to Ladislaw Starewicz made by his granddaughter.
A Harman-Ising MGM cartoon from 1936. As with yesterday’s cartoon, this cartoon is in the genre of anthropomorphic inanimate objects.
Read more about this cartoon on the Big Cartoon Database here.
Ted Esbaugh directed cartoon featuring cute little happy gnomes that force their happiness on poor gloom-filled goblins with their liquid radioactive magic happy drug.
Read more about this cartoon on the Big Cartoon Database here.
Here is the second MGM cartoon featuring the Three Good Little Monkeys.
The pink elephants sequence from Dumbo is one of my favorite pieces of Disney studios animation… great music too.
I was curious to find some Charles Mintz cartoons, as I haven’t seen many of them. There aren’t a whole lot of them out there on the internets yet… he produced this one for Columbia, and it is directed by Art Davis. Mintz is probably best known these days for screwing Walt Disney out of the character Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. This beautifully animated cartoon starts slow, but boy does it get twisted. Alcoholism, child abduction and endangerment, gunfire, racism… yep, they don’t make ’em like this any more. If you are easily offended, you may not want to watch this one.
Believe it or not, there is a really nice site out there dedicated to Scrappy… SCRAPPYLAND.
My 2-year old daughter and I have been watching a whole lot of Betty Boop cartoons lately. Here’s a fun one. Homeland security is going to be all over Betty and Koko after this…