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’s an early Disney Silly Symphonies cartoon for the Vintage Spooky Cartoons list… Halloween is coming up fast.
Another cartoon for the ongoing Vintage Spooky Cartoons list… the Fleischers’ Popeye versus a ghost ship.
Unfortunately, the only version of this available online that I can find right now is the colorized version. I’m not talking Ted Turner colorized either… bad as that is, this is much worse. My understanding is that at some point (around the time color television came around?) some brilliant entrepreneur decided it would be a good idea to make a buck by remaking some old public domain black and white cartoons in color by tracing cartoons on the cheap, coloring them and re-filming them. The results are poorly traced, and hideously colored, with far less “in-betweening” than the originals… leaving the animation a clunky, jerky, ugly mess… a hollow shell of the original. I imagine that they generally have chunks of the cartoon outright missing as well, judging from the budget-minded nature of this monstrous process (not to mention the sort of censorship that inevitably occurs when dimwits revisit the material of yesteryear and judge it by modern standards). In the very likely event I have any of this information wrong, someone out there please do correct me in the comments. Needless to say, I’ll replace this with a black and white version if it becomes available.
Another cartoon for the ongoing Vintage Spooky Cartoon list in anticipation of Halloween. Could this Mad Doctor be The Phantom Blot? Apparently this cartoon was considered too frightening for children by British censors.
Read more about this cartoon on The Big Cartoon Database here.
Another one for the Vintage Spooky Cartoon list to bring Halloween in. This early Warner Brothers Buddy short would appear to contain the origin of Michigan J. Frog at around a minute and a half in.
Read more information about this cartoon on The Big Cartoon Database.
Another one for my ongoing Vintage Spooky Cartoon list to get you in the mood for Halloween. Unfortunately, the video quality of this one is pretty atrocious.
Another spooky cartoon to get you in the mood for Halloween… I love the abrupt ending of this one. If you want more spookiness, check out my ongoing list of spooky cartoons.
Read more about this cartoon on The Big Cartoon Database.
This cartoon, along with almost all of Ub Iwerks cartoons made for his own studio, are available on the excellent DVDs The Cartoons that time Forgot Volume One
Not only is this a spooky cartoon, but the heavy is a gorilla… what more could you ask for?
Thrillmer! was nice enough to point out that the link was broken when I posted this the other day, so this is a repost… I’ll have another spooky cartoon posted for your amusement later today as well.
In eager anticipation of Halloween, here is a directory of the vintage spooky cartoons that have been compiled on this site so far. I’m going to be adding a lot more over the next month or so, so please do check back. Please note that you can subscribe to this site here to keep up with the latest posts.
In eager anticipation of Halloween, here is a directory of the vintage spooky cartoons that have been compiled on this site so far. I’m going to be adding a lot more over the next month or so, so please do check back. Please note that you can subscribe to this site here to keep up with the latest posts.