Cartoons

[porphyry]

Here are some cartoons (not made by people who seem to hate animation as so many modern ones oddly seem to be):

Strange use of Figaro on the soundtrack:

Another triumph of modernity over art, but who can resist it?

(quoted in this house ten times a day)



Snow White in Hell:

(made long before the Disney version)

Comments

[stefanie-bean.livejournal.com]

Those were great. I love how old cartoons use the "industrial process" motif (very "Modern Times"), like the first.

And "Snow White in Hell" - the Fleishchers were truly surrealistic. Have you ever seen "Rubberland?"

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

yes there is a fascination with idustrial process in early cartoons--that would be an imprtant theme if one were to write a book on the subject (I suppose it would have to be an interactive DVD now, rather than a book)--though I think of that in terms of a film like Man Ray's Ballet Mechanique (or is that Man Ray?), since I don't think in terms of Chaplin much.

By Rubberland, do you mean Balloonland(the one with the Pin-Cushon man)? Otherwise I guess I haven't seen it. But balloon land--there's a ferile ground for psychoanalysis!

[himmapaan.livejournal.com]

Wonderful!

Interesting how the elves mined the colours and 'pumped' them towards the surface, as opposed to distributing them in a rather more artisan way (like painting them, for instance).

(quoted in this house ten times a day)

What is?

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

The quotes of dialog from I Love to Singa come mainly from my wife, though sometimes from me (Andrew has not picked it up yet). Usually they make no sense, or do so only metaphorically, and are more to suggest style. E.g.: "Ah! A Mendelsshon!" "A lovely melody!", "Enough is too much!" or, one in which great Gnostic significance can be found, if one looks hard enough: "Hello, stranger!", etc.

Now that I think about it, what Andrew quotes all the time is my answer to his question about why the female singing bird couldn't fall through the trap door: "She ate too many worms."

[himmapaan.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, I see! :D

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

I am particularly notorious for quoting from cartoons (and other things too). I have a knack for mimicry so that I sound just like the character and it amuses the children endlessly. Combine that with my good memory, I can quote some of these cartoons and others by heart, changing around my voice to suit each character. (I spent too much time onstage in my youth, I guess.)

Plus, the Owl Jolson one--how cute is that?!--Prof. Fritz Owl... he's just like my husband! :)

[himmapaan.livejournal.com]

Prof. Fritz Owl... he's just like my husband! :)

I can easily believe it! :D

I used to do that all the time too - quote things from cartoons and do all the voices. I can't remember when it stopped...