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!