Personally, the only cartoons on this collection I liked were the black & white ones, especially everything with Flip the Frog. There's something about the primitiveness of the animation and the bizarre things that happen in these old cartoons that just fascinates me, somewhat like the Fleischer cartoons with Betty Boop. There is some racy material in here as Flip peeks through a keyhole to look at a nude woman just out of the shower and an angel on a cloud giving an airplane the middle finger! There's a section called THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT with weird & scary cartoons sure to give impressionable youngsters nightmares for weeks.
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Almost four hours of fun
jim-6004 July 2003
I'm over 50 and thought that by now I would have seen just about all the cartoons that have been made, at least in the US. But these were a complete surprise and delight. Cheerful, funny and witty -- you don't get all three very often. Some of these are very old, pre-1930, and reflect their times. For example, bucket of soot might turn a character into a 10 second black-face caricature. But these are spare moments. I used them to explain to my 11 year old daughter about the racism of that era. If you like the early Disney stuff and fret that they "don't make 'em that way anymore" have a look at these.
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