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(More customer reviews)Well, it ain't complete and most of `em ain't weird, but THE COMPLETE WEIRD CARTOONS is fun. In fact, the only thematic glue here is the age of this collection - none were made later than 1945.
Still, there are a few gems and semi-precious stones here. There are two very early Walt Disney cartoons, "Alice's Eggplant" and "Alice the Toreador." They're a charming combination of live action and black-and-white animation. Alice was a young girl who was featured in a number of Disney's early works.
There are a few I suppose you could call weird. Charle's Bowers' "It's a Bird" and Wladyslaw Starewicz's "Frogland" and "The Devil's Ball" both employ stop-action animation rather than the usual pen-and-ink stuff. Starewicz's stuff defies brief description, Bower's "It's a Bird" is a live action/animation combo about a man who discovers a metal eating bird. If they wanted to include a really weird Betty Boop they could have done better than "Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions." They could have used "Snow White" (the Betty Boop one with Cab Calloway), or "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You," which features live-action cut-ins of a very young Louis Armstrong.
There are a few here you'll never see on Saturday morning, cut for their racist content. Ub Iwerks "Little Black Sambo" and Chuck Jone's "Inki & the Minah Bird" seem fairly tame even by today's standards. Walter Lanz's "Scrub Me Mama With a Boogie Beat," on the other hand, is pretty bad. Jone's Inki seems no more a stereotype of a black male than Elmer Fudd is a stereotype of a white male. "Scrub Me..." will take your breath away with its overt racism.
In all, this is a fun and interesting collection. These are NOT cartoons you'll want to plunk your unattended children in front of, though.
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This collection of vintage cartoons is not only a loopy primer on animation history; it is also an offbeat reflection of western "civilization" in the early 20th century. The racism in "Little Black Sambo," and the overt sexuality of Betty Boop are all-the-more shocking when you think that this is what grandma and grandpa were growing up watching!From the works of the world’s very first animator, Emile Cohl, to Walt Disney himself, Johnny Legend has compiled a twisted list of early animations that are guaranteed to surprise, delight and amaze.Program Listing 1.Alice’s Eggplant - Walt Disney (1914) 2.Frogland - Wladyslaw Starewicz- Russian Art Society of Paris (1922) 3.Alice The Toreador - Walt Disney (1914) 4.Hold Anything - Isadore Freleng & Norm Blackburn (1930) 5.Betty Boop’s Crazy Inventions - Max Fleischer (1932) 6.Inki & The Minah Bird - Merrie Melodies (1945) 7.Betty Boop in Crazy Town – Max Fleischer (1932) 8.Little Black Sambo by U.B. Iwerks(1935) 9.In A Cartoon Studio Jungle Jinks(1931) 10.It’s A Bird Charley Bowers in a Lowell Thomas Tall Story (1930) 11.Intermissions (vintage movies theatre intermissions) 12.Non-Stop Fright - Felix the Cat (1927) 13.Scrap Happy Daffy –Daffy Duck (1943)BR>14.Scrub Me Mamma With A Boogie Beat -Walter Lanz (1941) 15.Hasher’s Delirium – Emile Cohl (1910) 16.Small Fry – Max Fleischer (1939) 17.The Devil’s Ball – Wladyslaw Starewicz (1934) 18.Cobweb Hotel – Max Fleischer (1936)
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