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THE CARTOON CRYPT: Cartoonland Mysteries
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THE CARTOON CRYPT: Willie Whopper in Stratos Fear (1933)
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.
THE CARTOON CRYPT: Spinning Mice (1935)
Here’s a fun VanBeuren cartoon from 1935, about an alchemist’s experiment going terribly awry and releasing demons from Hell! Scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider… heed this cartoon!
STWALLSKULL’S CARTOON CRYPT PRESENTS: Vintage Monkey Cartoons!
I decided to round up the whole barrel full of monkey cartoons in one convenient place… 25 of them so far! Click the image to go there.
THE CARTOON CRYPT: El Mono Relojero aka The Clock-Making Monkey (1938)
El Mono Relojero AKA The Clockmaking Monkey (1938). I read about this cartoon originally on Cartoon Brew here… go there to read more about it. According to Jerry Beck at Cartoon Brew this bizarre and hilarious cartoon from Argentina is only surviving film by the creator of the first animated feature film (El Apostol, 1917), Quirino Cristiani.
THE CARTOON CRYPT: The Pet Store (1933)
The final installment of the Beppo the Gorilla trilogy. This one is a homage to Willis O’ Brien’s classic King Kong,
Read more about this cartoon on The Big Cartoon Database.
This cartoon is available on the DVD Walt Disney Treasures – Mickey Mouse in Black and White.
THE CARTOON CRYPT: Mickey’s Mechanical Man (1933)
The second cartoon in the Beppo the Gorilla trilogy.
Read more about this cartoon on The Big Cartoon Database.
You can get this cartoon on the DVD Walt Disney Treasures – Mickey Mouse in Black and White Volume 2.
THE CARTOON CRYPT: The Gorilla Mystery (1930)
The first cartoon in the Beppo the Gorilla trilogy.
Read more about this cartoon on The Big Cartoon Database.
This cartoon is available on the DVD Walt Disney Treasures – Mickey Mouse in Black and White.
THE CARTOON CRYPT: More on Peeping Penguins (1937)
I watched Peeping Penguins on the Fleischer Color Classics compilation dvd Somewhere in Dreamland again this weekend, and I was correct that it is missing footage (in addition to the previously mentioned altered soundtrack missing the song “Curiosity Killed the Cat”). The penguin playing and almost killing himself with a loaded rifle has been eliminated from the sloppily edited version on the Dreamland dvd. You can get the full version on a shoddily manufactured but chock full of great stuff compilation called 150 Cartoon Classics.
You’ll want Somewhere in Dreamland for the rest of the Color Classics, though (except for the one it doesn’t include)… in spite of its flaws it is a fantastic and almost complete compilation of the Color Classics:
I’ve extracted the song Curiosity Killed the Cat (along with some of the rest of the soundtrack) as an mp3 which you can download here.
Read more about Peeping Penguins on The Big Cartoon Database here.
THE CARTOON CRYPT : Greedy Humpty Dumpty (1936)
Here’s another wonderful and weird Fleischer Color Classics cartoon.
You can get all but one of the Color Classics on this great DVD set called Somewhere in Dreamland: