7 Eerily Disturbing Old Cartoons & Animations | blameitonjorge

What is it about old black-and-white

cartoons

,

animations

, and movies that is so baffling, from Fleischer

cartoons

to classic Walt Disney shorts? There was always something about these classics that gave off an eerie vibe, the strange surreal movements, the muffled vocals. Taking action and less constant regulation and control seems like the perfect recipe for fear, so today we're going back in time to take a look at seven hauntingly

disturbing

old cartoons and

animations

. Swing you sinners 1930. Our first cartoon is Fleischer Studios 1913. short swing cartoon, sinners, with the Bimbo doll. The cartoon begins with Bimbo making the rounds of him trying to steal chickens from the chicken coops.

Unfortunately, the police are also doing their rounds on him and catch him in the act as he runs away from the cop. Bimbo hides in a gray through the A Gate then grows a mouth and swallows the key, locking Bimbo inside and sealing his fate, tombstones, trees and even the ground itself come to life around him, trying to eat him, torturing him and hitting him while listening to a jazz song about what a horrible person he is. It is in this jazz number that the ghosts berate and condemn him for the chickens he used to steal, the crabs he used to shoot at the girls he used to chase.

Finally, Bimbo hides in a bar where this nightmare takes a turn for the worse. The demon-possessed pitchforks and science stalk him and try to cut his throat while a demonic version of the chicken from before appears and spasms uncontrollably at him after running out of the barn transformed into a conglomerate of ghostly faces that chase him around. field. From now on, he's just weird. footage from left to right with a strange frog moving his arms around his body in an extremely uncomfortable manner while looking directly into the viewer's eyes, Bimbo's head is eventually severed and he is swallowed by a giant skull as he lunges towards the camera and finish with the car. - that's all at the beginning of the cartoon, Bimbo pleads with the ghosts stating that he has tried hard to be a better person, but the ghosts don't care, they threw him into the horrible pits of hell, where he will be trapped forever without head and tormented, as some viewers have noted.

The cartoon's similarities have two real-life lynchings, as the cartoon focuses on a dark-colored character who is pursued by a gang that tries to kill him for petty crimes, although this is purely theoretical, the similarities are quite

disturbing

, especially considering the time. period in which the cartoon was released, the disturbing nature of the cartoon has left its mark on pop culture from Serbian alternative rock band Bandido naming their first album after the short to the in-game achievement for beating the devil in Cuphead which was called swing Hewson referring to the Dynamic Nature of this cartoon shortly after 1931 Is there anything crueler than taking candy from a baby?

How about beating and drowning babies? Because that's a big part of the following cartoon. The Little Plague distributed by Columbia Pictures in 1931. The short features that the characters are tough. A boy appearing in cartoons from 1931 to 1941, Scrappy and his dog Yippie, head to the fishing spot to spend a summer afternoon fishing, much to his chagrin, his little brother, Opie, accompanies him singing songs and being an influence. positive, scrappy repeatedly. He tells him to get lost, but Oopy wants nothing more than to hang out with his older brother. Scrappy becomes increasingly irritated and begins to push Opie, eventually hitting him despite knocking him several feet back.

Poopy catches up to Scrappy and starts fishing alongside him. he after his fishing lines get tangled, Scrappy pushes his brother into the water angrily, Poopy begins to drown, thrashes violently in the water, screams for help and yipee looks incredibly worried, but Scrappy pretends he doesn't hear anything and starts to walk away whistling. The vision of an electric chair flashes through Scrappy's head, causing him to dive in and save his little brother, not because he really cares about his brother, but because he's afraid of being caught and blamed for the accident. death of him. After throwing him to the ground, he begins to panic.

Oopy is not breathing, fortunately he revives him and saves his life. Oopy then says that he is thirsty and says: I want a drink of water. He is an absolute piece of shit and an abusive brother. It is clear that he has no conscience or any kind of attachment to his brother, highlighted by his motive for rescuing Oopy to save his own skin. It's uncomfortable that such a violent and abusive character continued. being a medium pet with a lot of merchandise on the third, fortunately no one seems to remember it these days, that's probably one of the best feline crazes despite being a very well known pet even to this day.

Did you know that Felix the cat has been dead? For almost a hundred years, in a way, Felix made his first appearance in the silent cartoon Cat Follies of 1919, where he was actually named master of the song. The four minute short follows Felix as he tries to get laid and that's really the whole plot where he meets a cat and they go to spend some time together, however while that's happening some mice in Felix's house They make the most of the fact that there is no cat around to chase them, they eat all the food in the pantry, drink all the milk and make a huge mess after an afternoon of sex with cats, Felix returns home exhausted and stays He is asleep, too tired to notice the huge mess around him, however, his owner arrives and is horrified to see the mess, assuming it was Felix and the confused cat that came out of the house telling him. leave and never return Venus goes to look for her girlfriend now that she is homeless, to her surprise there is a litter of 17 kittens waiting for her kittens horrified by this new responsibility of raising a family.

Felix runs away as fast as he can and finally ends up at a gas drilling site, finds an open pipe and sticks a hose on it, turns it on and puts it in his mouth waiting for the gas to do its job and end his life the cartoon ends with Felix presumably committing suicide Peanut Seller 1933 Released in 1933 The Peanut Seller might be the first stop-motion movie to scare children and at only a minute and a half long and that's pretty impressive, the story is good, no There is a story, it features a monkey by the sea selling peanuts while singing the song peanuts.

Red Nichols seller there really isn't much else to the setup, other than the disturbing thing about this short comes through the monkey himself and his design and movements, like most stop-motion films, the movement of the characters is quite unnatural and from another world. It is not always bad and can sometimes even add charm to the puppets' performances. This would be the same for the monkey, except its design is absolutely baffling. His eyes are enormous and, when blinking, often look directly at the camera and, by extension, at the viewer, his arms. They are as long as his entire body and just look bad when extended to their full extent, our main character then breaks out into a dance number, albeit a very forced one, removing his tail and twirling it around his neck before merge seamlessly.

With this body, the music cuts out from time to time, leaving you with a second or two of silence with the thing staring at you, making it feel like an eternity. The film was created by Len Lye, a New Zealand artist known for his experimental films. In kinetic sculpture, his strange and exotic work was widely admired and films and sculptors of him appeared in galleries around the world, from the British Film Institute to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The Monkey itself is currently owned by the New Zealand Film Archive and currently resides there, overall The Peanut Seller is a harmless short film that remains impressive to this day.

The monkey, however, is also quite terrifying to this day. The history of the priests and their workers. Shelf 1930 our next entry. also qualifies as half-lost as only four minutes of this film have been found and restored. The story of the priest and his workers. Valda is a Soviet feature film that was worked on during the 1930s. Work began in 1933 when Michael Tsekhanovsky abandoned the project based on the fairy tale of the same name by Alexander Pushkin, difficulties arose during production partly due to the The film's composer abandoned the project after publicly denouncing Tsekhanovsky's work in an article for not having a score, as well as another production. problems the film was never completed and was stored in the lenfilm archives where it was almost lost in a fire during world war ii the only surviving footage is from the scene bazaar the fairy tale itself is about a lazy priest looking for a worker cheap At the bazaar he meets Balda, a naïve guy who agrees to work for a year without pay, with the exception that he will be allowed to hit the priest on the head three times and half-cook spelled soft wheat staple.

In some parts of Europe during the Bronze Age, the priest soon realizes that Balda is an exceptional worker and also incredibly strong. He becomes worried and soon begins asking Boldwood for completely impossible tasks, including collecting cloth from a sea demon. At the end of the story, he boldly gives. the priest three consecutive blows to the head that made him lose his mind Balder utters the last line saying that you shouldn't have run after the cheapness the surviving footage of the film version shows the beginning of the story with the various merchants of the bazaar selling their products, we see a lot of close-ups of these merchants showing off their rather creepy designs of their limited movement, exaggerated features and bombastic behavior that make for an uncomfortably long impression, four minutes which makes it seem like almost double their running time, it's for sure assume the entire film would have been like this if that's how they plan to open the film, it's unfortunate that the project was never completed and the remaining footage was lost, not everything about this is a loss after the death of the film's composer who sued wife arranged for one of his students to complete the rest of the score for the film that premiered at the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra in 2006 The Cameraman's Revenge 19:12 The Cameraman's Revenge was produced in 1912 by the corns on coffe company located in Moscow and focuses on mr. and Mrs. the Beetle and her failed marriage the entire film is silent and made in stop-motion with real dead insects attached to handcuffs with their limbs sealed with earthen wax many people were so amazed and convinced by these effects that they thought that the Filmmaker Lud Islas, starring Ovitch, had trained live insects to make Mr.

Beetle has become unhappy with his marriage and finds that his love life has become quite boring. One night he heads to the Dragonfly gay nightclub to meet his lover, a dancer at the club after hitting her boyfriend, Mr. Beetle takes the dancer to a hotel where they have sex without Mr. Beetle, although The dancer's boyfriend is a cameraman who follows them to their hotel and secretly films their adventure while Mrs. Beetle herself is also in the middle of an adventure with her artist friend when Mr. Beetle returns home and finds her in the middle of the adventure, he throws the artist out in anger, he forgives her, however, and she doesn't realize his adventure, let anyone go out to see a movie without knowing that the cinema they are going to is the same. the same one where the dancer's boyfriend works and after seeing the Beatles the cameraman arrived in an act of revenge and played Mr.'s film. beetle having sex with a dancer on the projector for everyone to see publicly humiliating the couple mrs. beetle starts hitting mr. beetle on his head with his umbrella made the man angry. the beetle runs into the projection room and attacks the cameraman causing the project to catch fire the couple is arrested and imprisoned where they reconcile and spend the night together in the center more than a century old the cameraman's revenge is style of which His most famous film combines his two loves, graphic design and entomology, in a wonderful parody of the Parler Miller dramas that were very popular in Russia at the time, the way dead insects are used is brilliant, if not A bit macabre, the delicate techniques used to carefully move each limb of the insect without breaking is incredibly impressive, especially considering the fact that it was made in 1912.

It is clearly a film aimed at adults, as many of the themes and jokes would fly over children's heads and probably scare them due to the use of stop-motion insect corpses, the attention to detail, dark humor and macabre themes make this film uncomfortable and delight the mascot, our final and longest film is another stop-motion animation titled The Mascot, which lasts 25 minutes, it isincredibly impressive, it is so The long, high-quality stop-motion film was produced in 1933 and created by French filmmaker Lattice All-Star Wits. The mascot was actually one of the first animated films ever created before Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

The movie is actually incredibly similar to Toy Story or rather Toy Story is similar, the premise features toys that come to life when humans aren't looking. The main character is a toy dog ​​named Duffy who is brought to life by a tear from his owner's mother, giving Duffy a level of loyalty. Sentiment that is not present in any of the other live, animated objects found throughout the film, since it is an early stop-motion, there is a certain degree of disturbing movement that features a good amount, actually the amount of material used. in this film is impressive, if not a little disturbing, from vegetables and broken glass to chicken bones and dead chicks half-hatched in their shell.

Starwood uses everything he has at his disposal. Pixar was incredibly inspired by this film featured in Toy Story and the life of a bug by seeing the world from a smaller perspective, while Pixar usually takes a much more light-hearted and whimsical approach to these perspectives: the pet is not, for example, In Toy Story 2, there is a scene where the toys travel under an orange traffic cone to cross the street, while the traffic is a mundane situation for us that we can feel. the anxiety and the tense atmosphere from their perspective I will do it in a comical way a similar situation occurs in the mascot where we can see the dangers of the city from the perspective of the toys but the reality is much more present at a particular moment. shows a clown doll whose head is amputated by a car steering wheel, it is never reattached, and we see the rest of the body fall apart.

The nature of stop-motion coupled with the realistic approach to a smaller perspective of the world makes this film deeply accurate. And what is disconcerting for many is that Starr was the key figure in the development of stop-motion cinema and after seeing the mascot it is very clear why by using the surreal nature of stop-motion to its full potential he realized the power of stop-motion from very early on. and paved the way for many future creators, including The Nightmare Before Christmas, Henry Selick. Unsettling is not always a bad thing, sometimes it is anxiety and fear that really makes us