For day 7 of spooky month, we got the short that debuted Casper the friendly ghost to the world.
it’s cuter than the previous shorts, but the aesthetics and environment still give it the Halloween vibes that is needed, (plus, Casper is a great character!)
For spooky month day 6, we have Flip the frog once again in another of his classic shorts.
To put it shortly: Ub Iwerks always rocks when he does Things that feature skeletons!
While the film clearly has blackface, I think that the movie still has some value to be ha, not just in its technical aspect, but in story and music.
Here is the Jazz singer as presented in 1927.
One of my favorite sings from Lehrer, and while the animation of this short is copyrighted as far as I know, the composition and recording are public domain!
you can find the recording by searching it up on Wikimedia Commons.
The few times that Flip the frog was put in scary settings, it proved to be some of the best cartoons he had, so this will be the cartoon for day 5 of spooky month ! This one has plenty of creativity and thrills!
For the fourth day of spooky month, we have another Disney short!
Coming out in the same year as the skeleton dance, this short basically retakes some of the animation from the previous spooky short and put it in a Mickey Mouse scenario.
Despite the recycling, this is still good, hilarious, and scary fun to be had with this short!
On the third day of spooky month I will give to thee: Felix being hunted, a dog in a yard, and some skeletons macabring!
When Walt Disney wanted to make more shorts that were not related to Mickey Mouse, Carl W. Stalling gave him not just the idea of having music be the center focus, but also have the first short of their new series to be about skeletons dancing, due to him always wanting to see skeletons dance after hearing Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saëns.
The result was this classic, which was mostly animated solely by Ub Iwerks!
As the second day of October, I decided to choose this cartoon that entered the public domain this year! It’s one of Fleischer studios greatest, and most imaginative, (with the latter being especially impressive considering how creative the Fleischer brothers could be.
It’s from 1946 (80 years ago!), so it’s from Frankie’s younger years.
I’ve been playing so many times for the past few days.
It’s the first day of October, so I figured I could post a scary-themed cartoon!
This one is an oldie, but a goodie, and one of Felix’s best shorts!
I found this picture yesterday, and I have doubts that I found it sooner because if I did, I would have post about it earlier!
Do you think he would have continued to perform and record new music? I know that age took a toll on him (as shown in one of, if not his final live performance that was recorded), but he doesn’t strike me as the “retiree type”. I think he would have continued to perform until something really bad happened that would actually make it mandatory for him to stop (and even then, I can see him breaking that rule lol).
Do you think he would have also made a comeback as an actor, and done collaborations with singers from the 2000’s and 2010’s?
Name a cooler trio, I’ll wait…
I’ve heard at least the first two songs, and I want to get it all done.
This one intrigues me because it seems ”under the radar” compared to his other albums and compilations.
Do you like it?
I’ll give it this, though: This one probably has my favorite Dean album cover.
I don’t know who the fellow on the left of the first picture is, but if you do, please let me know!
Thank you Colt13898!
I was rewatching the beginning of the Jurassic Park 3 review, and being reminded of the “Alan!” joke and looking at the comments about Doug’s mother, I started to search her up and I got this info on her.
If it’s true that today marks 10 years since she left earth, then R.I.P. Sandra Walker, thank you for bringing an incredible son to our lives, and for raising him well.
The movie is called “Around the world in 80 minutes with Douglas Fairbanks” (which by the way, Mickey actually played his role from “the gaucho” in the short “the gallopin gaucho”).
I can’t believe this exists!
This, (along with Babes in wonderland, and Hollywood party) make it one of those rare instances of Mickey being in a film not owned or worked by the Walt Disney corporation!
I did the same post a while ago, but I had to update it sooner than I ever imagined!
Dean had lots of good suits, but in my opinion, this was his best one.
The recording will lose copyright in 2032, but this is one of the 1931 records as an example, and it’s arguably the most popular one.