Saturday Morning Creeptoons: XXV
Posted by Qais Fulton
Disney’s Silly Symphonies - The Skeleton Dance: A classic cartoon from the days before Disney took to cranking out insipid musical after insipid musical. This is the stuff the very best childhood nightmares are made of, the skeletal remains of the long dead prancing about in a fluid manner that the living could never hope to approach.
The Animal World - Prehistoric Segment: An absolute masterpiece of stop motion animation. Dinosaurs duking it out in what has always been one of my favorite films, which should come as no surprise really; it is Harryhausen after all.
The History of Evil: An adorable, animated mockumentary on the evolution of evil from the days of ancient Greece to present. In a bit of disheartening hilarity, all that seems to have changed from then to now is the costumes the characters wear.
Angel’s Egg: The entree of this Saturday’s cartoon feast, Angel’s Egg is a bit of anime that truly helped shape and forcibly evolve the genre. Somehow in this evolution we’ve gone from stunning works of brilliance, such as Angel’s Egg, that are able to tell heartbreaking tales while remaining light on dialogue, to animation factories cranking out shallow, superficial Saturday morning sweetmeats for the consumption of Western children so hopped up on cereals sugared to the point they could reasonably be classified as a controlled substance.
Categories: Rail, Saturday Morning Cartoons
Posted at 7:03 am on March 22, 2008
5 Comments -
o i do love the sceleton dance. there was a reference to this cartoon in another cartoon called the grim adventures of billy and mandy.
Comment by thefileclerk — March 23, 2008 @ 12:59 am
“…An unnatural lack of mother-love for their young.”
This is by far the most compelling theory as to the cause of the die-off of the dinosaurs that I have ever heard. I feel that henceforth any further discussion of dinosaur extinction should begin and end with this one theory.
Meteors? Bah!
Comets the size of New York? Ridiculous!
Dino-AIDS? A falsehood perpetuated by Big Pharma!
The truth, dear readers, is that their mothers didn’t love them enough!
Comment by racerabbit — March 23, 2008 @ 1:50 am
OMFG skeleton dance. I’m pretty sure that I haven’t seen that in two decades.
Comment by Rit — March 23, 2008 @ 3:02 am
Ah yes, the skeleton dance. You know, this is one of the things Disney put out that shaped me as a child. Things like this are the reason why I still love me some Disney World.
Comment by Euphoria — March 23, 2008 @ 9:07 pm
proper to note that angel’s egg was one of the first films Mamoru Oshii directed, with references popping up in his later works.
Comment by john — March 24, 2008 @ 10:44 am