Why are 1930s cartoons so disturbing and alien?
Why are 1930s cartoons so disturbing and alien?
Chase Reyes
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William Perry
yeah cartoons actually having 5 fingers is pretty alien
Zachary Morgan
Film was a new medium, and animation especially is a vessel to channel the abnormal and unconventional. Actually, the early 30's is when animation started becoming a little less bizarre. Pure weirdness is more of a 20's and before thing. I'd say around 1933/4-ish is when many of the absurdities became more refined. The one you posted is remembered fondly likely because it exists in the weird transition period where things are the right level of intense.
Lincoln Carter
It was patrician as fuck.
Ryan Campbell
The Jewish cabal behind Hollywood is literally satanic
Jace Martinez
This is the first explanation in this thread that I believe.
Aaron Evans
satan is an idea that drunks use to blame their problems on something else without taking responsibility for their own actions
Jaxon Sanders
Good shit, OP.
Brody Evans
Weird inbetweening.
Parker Rogers
>Max Fleischer
>Born to a Jewish family in Kraków,[3]
>Dave Fleischer
> grew up in Brownsville, Brooklyn, a poor Jewish ghetto.
That's why
Owen Morris
wtf I love jews now
Sebastian Morris
Hard drugs were unregulated.
Xavier Ross
It wasn't regulated until a law was passed stating what and what not to show on a cartoon
Xavier Howard
Hope you enjoy the heat :^)
Leo Robinson
Yeah, but the Jews are real,
Zachary Barnes
They also weren't intended for younger audiences either
Wyatt Powell
>Jews are real
>mfw
Nolan Barnes
fuck yeh, minnie the moocher. fleischer toons are kino.
Ryan Williams
Fleischer cartoons where intentionally made surreal and controversial
that's why when the Hays Code came in everything but Popeye and the Superman cartoon fell off.
Matthew Davis
Also there's just the fact most of the earlier ones are basically animated music videos
hence silly symphonies, marie melodies, looney tunes, etc.
Connor Bailey
No, that's not what I'm talking about. Old Popeye and Superman cartoons were weird in the same way, as was the popular music and the way people talked in movies. It all has a creepy otherworldly feel to it, like I can't even relate to people from that era as human beings.
Justin Murphy
Hollywood in that era was still heavily influenced by stage actors.