Here are the opening and closing bits from the 1970 incarnation of Norakuro.
THE CARTOON CRYPT: Norakuro Opening and Closing
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THE CARTOON CRYPT: Corporal Norakuro (1934)
Norakuro versus the Monkey Army! Norakuro Gocho aka Corporal Norakuro (1934) animated by Yasuji Murata.
THE CARTOON CRYPT: Private 2nd Class Norakuro (1933)
Norakuro Nitohei: Kyoren no Maki/Enshu no Maki aka Private 2nd Class Norakuro (1933) animated by Yasuji Murata. If you’ve read the sixth issue of the incredible art comics anthology Kramer’s Ergot, you may remember Norakuro from there.
THE CARTOON CRYPT: Chip in the Land of Whiz (1929)
All the info I have on this cartoon is what it says on YouTube:
“A rare stop-motion animated cartoon done by the Kinex Studios in 1929 for Kodak Cinegraph.”
THE CARTOON CRYPT: The Three Bears (1935)
A fun Ub Iwerks take on The Three Bears versus the villainous burglar Goldilocks.
Read more about this cartoon on the Big Cartoon Database here.
THE CARTOON CRYPT: Teeny Tiny Samurai Versus the Polka-Dot Demon
This cartoon is called Issun-boshi no Shusse (1929) on YouTube. It appears to feature an ancestor of S. Clay Wilson’s Checkered Demon. Searching for information on it I ran across this page refers to it as The Tiny One Makes it Big, and attributes it to the production company Nakano Mangasha. That page also is selling dvd’s that include a number of the old Japanese cartoons featured here recently, as well as many others, in their Japanese Anime Classic Collection [4-DVD box set].
THE CARTOON CRYPT: The Black Cat (1929)
That’s how it is. That’s how it goes. Kuro Nyago aka The Black Cat (1929) by Noburo Ofuji.
THE CARTOON CRYPT: Flip the Frog in Funny Face
A particularly strange Flip the Frog cartoon in which our hero gets plastic surgery.
THE CARTOON CRYPT: Baseball Group of Forest (1934)
Babel fish translates the title of this short YouTube video (森ã®é‡Žçƒå›£ Mori No Yakyuudan (1934)) as Baseball Group of Forest. The cranking cat tail gag may have been lifted directly from Disney’s Steamboat Willie (where a goat is getting cranked)… although that gag was probably used in a lot of cartoons.
THE CARTOON CRYPT: Momotaro’s Sky Adventure (1931)
A monkey cowboy! Sora no Momotaro aka Momotaro’s Sky Adventure (1931) animated by Yasuji Murata.