This is a rather crazy cartoon from 1930 I saw several days ago:
What a wild Fleischer cartoon this was. I’m not that familiar w/ Bimbo the cartoon dog, aside from its relative popularity in the 1930’s & later teaming up with Betty Boop. For awhile now I’ve known of this piece of animation, chiefly how surreal & bizarre it was. This was not an exaggeration.
The opening is Bimbo chasing a hen to a henhouse; he came across law enforcement, and runs to the cemetery. This is when the nightmare begins… the rest is full of spooky, ghoulish sights that include actual ghosts, demons, a giant skull, & more. That is all set to period jazz music. The imagery is probably far creepier than you’d expect for a cartoon 95 years old presumably made for general audiences; definitely, you wouldn’t expect those frightening elements to attempt homicide of our lead, but they do.
I’d rather not spoil much else; I will mention that those who love the game Cuphead, this was one of the inspirations. Shame on me for never giving it a shot until now.
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