Fun fact: many hatters back then went mad because of the gasses they inhaled from the hat-making process. The gasses were poisonous and messed with their heads, rendering them incapable of working properly. This donned the term "mad as a hatter."
Mercury compounds were used in the production of felt. The story goes that felt makers used to use urine to soften the felt (urine used to be used in the production of tons of things) and most of the felt makers would just use their own. But one felt maker had consistently better product, and it was because he was being treated with mercury for syphilis.
@@Lugh444 It is truly horrible. In fact clothing wasn't the only thing that was causing health issues. Pastries like cake was also affected when bakers would use chemicals to get a food coloring right. I remember reading in my high school history books that many bakers were aware of the health risks when making these colors for their pastries and yet they wouldn't tell the people with whom they worked for.
@@GravyGoodbread Well the word gay now has two meanings. The first, back then, being carefree and merriment. The second what we now consider homosexual. But I see what you mean.
Everybody knows it was the mercury nitrate used to separate the fur from the skin that drove them mad. What is IS interesting though, is that the cause was discovered in 1941. So merely one year after this cartoon was made.
They knew that hatmakers and people working with pelts did not live long and often lost sanity (hence the term mad as a hatter that predates Lewis Carroll). They just did not pinpoint why until 1941.
Actually they knew since the 1800s. There were medical studies showing what was up. They just didnt care. There was a lot of protest and boycotting from the hatters themselves. They only just banned it in 1941.
That's because these earlier cartoons where just that, animated shorts. Their main purpose was to entertain an audience. Cartoons from the 70s and 80s where more like long animated commercials to sell toys. Studios would make them as cheap as possible to beat the competition.
Labour intensive work that became simplified, rationalised and automated as time went by to save money. Hanna Barbera perfected cheap animation by repetitive scenes and movements, the Japanese achieved a style of minimum movement, and today anything not computer animated gets outsourced to the third world.
You cant believe it, this is something only a 40s cartoon would do at least as far as I know I’m a little concerned if you’ve seen cartoons like this nowadays I guess people really haven’t changed their ways
The light reflecting off the toaster in the next few seconds is spectacular really. I'm being serious. The slight layered shading around it makes the contrasting whites pop.
I'm sorry but we were talking about art style and details...i honestly don't understand how better work ethics and work environment can affect details and art style in the past decades or to...
Kinda eventhough it was reissued A Columbia Favorite is a dead giveaway that it wasn't originally released like that. But at least they kept the original outro.
One thing I've always loved about cartoons from the 1900s is the orchestra they always had in the background to really exaggerate what's going on in the story. It's just really satisfying and gives a good voice to the music to me.
i absolutely love how the whole mad-hatters situation was just an insane inside joke everybody knew back then and they had no idea of the mercury affecting them. it's tragically funny 🤣
Oh actualy they were partialy aware, back in the late 1800s Lewis Carrol already wrote the Mad Hatter in his book because of that. The whole novel is brimming with social comentary of Victorian England.
They knew what was causing it. It's just the industry didn't change, or the gov didn't create laws to protect the hatters from these chemicals, because the hatters had been using that treatment for so long that it was just a known fact that to be a hatter, you will be exposed over time. They couldn't make money without using those chemicals because there was nobody out there trying to invent something different. People did far crazier things to make a living 100+ years ago than becoming a hatter.
So workers getting poisoned is funny to you? That’s like laughing at cancer patients who inhaled asbestos at work before they knew it was dangerous. If you think that’s funny you’re mentally ill.
They knew entirely, and they didnt like it. This cartoon was just offensive. People knew how it was affecting them. People saw how they were dying. It was obvious. The companies however didnt care. It didnt matter how many people had to suffer or die, as long as it was convenient, cheap, and making them money. They only stopped because of ww2.
I love the vintage interiors and products like the radio, typewriter and telephone and so on. This is like a time machine that shows us how the 40s was like, even if it's just a cartoon.
I especially love that Maisie spents her whole day by sitting on a chair, stuffing herself with candies and ice-cream and yet somehow she looks athletic.
I love that she only goes to work to eat chocolate and read a book. These days a lot of office workers go to work literally to spend all day looking at RUclips videos. Some things never change.
The way the man was talking to the bellman @ 1:42 if it was nearby a barber shop at a hotel as I can't tell looks so realistic! It's hard to believe this cartoon short aired 8 decades ago as it makes me adore how old cartoons are created and drawn as they seem more detailed than today's cartoons if you ask me!
Wind Lady made in the 40s there was no such thing as computer animation it was said that these short animations were hand drawn and took months to make
God, words cannot describe how much I LOVE traditional animation! Not to throw CG under the bus or anything, but it just does not stack up to hand-drawn, imo. That's real animation!
4:15 Ahhh now i understand, i took a history class last semester on 11th grade and they explained that the mercury in hats made hat makers all crazyyyyy- i was so confused as a kid and the joke just flow over my head- after 12+ years I understand it 💀
This was made in 1940, but this has this energy of some yt cartoon short from some animator with 15k-20k subs, that would randomly show up in my recommended with at least 5M views. That's how you know the short aged like Fine Wine.
Because it was still odd to the patriachists and men with fragile egos to believe into intelligent and hard working women so they were displayed as this. Working women were still unusual in that time. If you look at other videos and advertisements you may notice they are having the same images as well.
@Zeesaialeaizmad123 I don't think that last comment was a dig at stay at home mothers. More of an observation that women of that time rarely worked outside the home. Seeing a working woman represented in the 40s was progressive for the era. The cartoonist at least doesn't have her at home, changing diapers and lighting her hubby's pipe, as though that's a woman's sole purpose.
And they always say fastfood and crap diet is a new thing. This girl here having donuts and coffee for breakfast, a bowl of icecream for lunch and eats candy for eight hours straight.
R C Nelson -----Do you eat breakfast with your mouth dirty , full of germs and bacteria and awfully stinking right after you just woke up ? eeew! that's gross and disgusting !
I think the cartoon not only shows the mercury problem of that time, Also consumerism and the fact that we all practically kill ourselves to later spend the money on fashions that designers could well get out of it under the influence of a crazy person.
i find it wonderfully charming that the very intelligent conversations below are being ellicited by this fascinating cartoon there is hope for intelligent conversations,,,,
despite the incredibly problematic nature of this film the sheer amount of original animation would never be seen today, this film would be prohibitively expensive in todays market.
Thanks RUclips. Now I see that cartoons nowadays don't have any chance against these jewels. I can feel the passion and emotion from every frame, right on my skin.
cool fact: at 6:53 it shows the Columbia lady having an american flag wrapped around her. We all know her from just looking like a pretty lady with some white curtains draped on her but she actually has an importance. Columbia is actually the female symbol of America. She was used during WW1 and used in WW2 for recruitment posters. Nice thing to know whenever you watch a movie and see the credit for it being made my Columbia Pictures
Everyone judging the people who made the cartoon saying that it’s insensitive that they depict women of just being lazy and eating candy at work. You don’t know Macy’s life! Maybe she taste test candies! Or maybe she reads books for a publishing company! You don’t know Macy’s life! Don’t judge! Do you know how hard it was to make a colored cartoons back in the 1940s! It’s hard!
Кино
Fun fact: many hatters back then went mad because of the gasses they inhaled from the hat-making process. The gasses were poisonous and messed with their heads, rendering them incapable of working properly. This donned the term "mad as a hatter."
I thought it comes from Alice, not that it was a thing!
What if Howl and the Moving Castle is just Sophie tripping
It was the Mercury that made them go mad
Wow I did not know this
@@pippinschtick6612 Dang... Now I realized how dark my childhood was.
Education note: Hatters did go mad due to being exposed to mercury poisoning. This is also a reference in Alice in Wonderland.
Not mad. gay.
Mercury compounds were used in the production of felt.
The story goes that felt makers used to use urine to soften the felt (urine used to be used in the production of tons of things) and most of the felt makers would just use their own. But one felt maker had consistently better product, and it was because he was being treated with mercury for syphilis.
@@Lugh444 It is truly horrible. In fact clothing wasn't the only thing that was causing health issues. Pastries like cake was also affected when bakers would use chemicals to get a food coloring right. I remember reading in my high school history books that many bakers were aware of the health risks when making these colors for their pastries and yet they wouldn't tell the people with whom they worked for.
@@GravyGoodbread Well the word gay now has two meanings. The first, back then, being carefree and merriment. The second what we now consider homosexual. But I see what you mean.
Gold planners too
The narrator getting hyped with Masie running off to work is so oddly funny
It was like sports commentary lol
Thats the joke
And she did!
Yep he's supposed to be talkin like a horse race announcer
@@Kazza_8240 specifically horse racing
As a former receptionist, Masie's rush to get to work only to read and eat chocolate all day rings so true. Couldn't stop laughing.
Who wouldn’t rush? Sounds like an amazing job.
I‘m very impressed by her long distance sprinting skills, do they come with the job too? 😂
@@blacky_Ninja she must have been a fast runner.
@@fuki98 time goes by very slowly at a job like that
And in high heels too.
Everybody knows it was the mercury nitrate used to separate the fur from the skin that drove them mad. What is IS interesting though, is that the cause was discovered in 1941. So merely one year after this cartoon was made.
They knew that hatmakers and people working with pelts did not live long and often lost sanity (hence the term mad as a hatter that predates Lewis Carroll). They just did not pinpoint why until 1941.
Actually they knew since the 1800s. There were medical studies showing what was up. They just didnt care. There was a lot of protest and boycotting from the hatters themselves. They only just banned it in 1941.
the world of imagination tends to be ahead of its time
I dont know that. Thanks
Why do people say "everybody knows" about stuff that not everyone knows
"she have exactly 5 minutes to take a bath, fix her hair, have breakfast, take the bus and arrive at the office" eh, I do that in 2.
You should be brushing your teeth for 2 minutes
@@mariyahrashid4623 I take about less than a minute lol
Epic soul eater moon pfp
I do it 30 second
Brushing your teeth should be 3 minutes.
the first hat actually looked good on her
And the second one I think she could put it off if she tried to…
thank u
Women don't like it simple. They what what's still not made to feel new...
its literally the same hat she own except the front pieces
Also this one 3:29
The tiny black one
This animated short from 1940 looks richer and more detailed than some cartoons from the 70s and 80s.
That's because these earlier cartoons where just that, animated shorts. Their main purpose was to entertain an audience. Cartoons from the 70s and 80s where more like long animated commercials to sell toys. Studios would make them as cheap as possible to beat the competition.
Carlton that’s the beauty of cel animation. personally i think it’s much more appealing than any other form
@@archive2011 exactly
It was made for cinemas instead of TV.
Labour intensive work that became simplified, rationalised and automated as time went by to save money.
Hanna Barbera perfected cheap animation by repetitive scenes and movements, the Japanese achieved a style of minimum movement, and today anything not computer animated gets outsourced to the third world.
I can't believe this cartoon was made in 1940, it's so much the kind of cartoon that I would watch today, soo hilarious and out of the ordinary!
Actually, this came out at a great time with Woody Woodpecker, Tom, Jerry and the most well-known, Bugs Bunny.
You cant believe it, this is something only a 40s cartoon would do at least as far as I know I’m a little concerned if you’ve seen cartoons like this nowadays I guess people really haven’t changed their ways
Sure made me laugh hard
Still it was pretty funny especially breaking down all the frames I haven’t slept in days
I believed this was given HD restoration.
0:22 I wish cartoons could have this much details in their zoom ups look at those shadings, its like how spongebob have close up arts
in the past people really cared about the details of animation, nowadays people only care about the amount of money
The light reflecting off the toaster in the next few seconds is spectacular really. I'm being serious. The slight layered shading around it makes the contrasting whites pop.
@@mifaeri7812 more like we have better work condition/environment/ethics for the animators. Who knows how meager their salary was back then.
@Dxmi no?
I'm sorry but we were talking about art style and details...i honestly don't understand how better work ethics and work environment can affect details and art style in the past decades or to...
3:21 hmm...I'm suspicious about that 'right turn' model.
Lmfaoooo I thought the same😂
Me too
Yea Its Looks Like A The Private Part Of Our Body
That had hat a huge erection!
(or something about it)
the dildo hat?
I really felt anxious with Macy's morning
Same here.
Samee
MAISIE
Its my morning every day
2:41 I love that the guy "notices the camera"
Wow lol
What a sharp eye
The color palettes are so pleasing to look at. I believe this was retouched with today's HD restoration.
Kinda eventhough it was reissued A Columbia Favorite is a dead giveaway that it wasn't originally released like that. But at least they kept the original outro.
@@stephenholloway6893 Sucks that the screen credits maybe lost.
One thing I've always loved about cartoons from the 1900s is the orchestra they always had in the background to really exaggerate what's going on in the story. It's just really satisfying and gives a good voice to the music to me.
If hat makers are like this, imagine the insanity of clothe tailors lmao
And Chester had 2 kids. 1 named Dolce and the other named Gabbana.
well this is based on the fact Hatter worked with mecury more often which drove them mad.
@@madamvaudelune3298 how do you know that?
@@madhatter6790 its a well known fact
@@madhatter6790 how is ur name mad hatter and you dont 😆
i absolutely love how the whole mad-hatters situation was just an insane inside joke everybody knew back then and they had no idea of the mercury affecting them. it's tragically funny 🤣
Oh actualy they were partialy aware, back in the late 1800s Lewis Carrol already wrote the Mad Hatter in his book because of that. The whole novel is brimming with social comentary of Victorian England.
They knew what was causing it. It's just the industry didn't change, or the gov didn't create laws to protect the hatters from these chemicals, because the hatters had been using that treatment for so long that it was just a known fact that to be a hatter, you will be exposed over time. They couldn't make money without using those chemicals because there was nobody out there trying to invent something different. People did far crazier things to make a living 100+ years ago than becoming a hatter.
But they did know. We've known for centuries about lead and mercury poisoning.
So workers getting poisoned is funny to you? That’s like laughing at cancer patients who inhaled asbestos at work before they knew it was dangerous. If you think that’s funny you’re mentally ill.
They knew entirely, and they didnt like it. This cartoon was just offensive. People knew how it was affecting them. People saw how they were dying. It was obvious. The companies however didnt care. It didnt matter how many people had to suffer or die, as long as it was convenient, cheap, and making them money. They only stopped because of ww2.
I love the vintage interiors and products like the radio, typewriter and telephone and so on. This is like a time machine that shows us how the 40s was like, even if it's just a cartoon.
This was the 20th century and the situation was never always pleasant when you have limited technology.
Macy starts her workday by laying down with a book and eating candy.
Mood.
She better don't take bus,she can just run to her office
Maisy
And she's reading the best books ever! Coming going gone with the wind and it's sequel, Departing from the breeze!
I especially love that Maisie spents her whole day by sitting on a chair, stuffing herself with candies and ice-cream and yet somehow she looks athletic.
No artificial ingredients or hormones in food.
It's all that running around she does
It her morning routine that made her athletic
Book: Gone with the wind
*Me as an intellectual: departing with the breeze*
VOL. 2
Elim Kwok I’m crying 😂😂
BESPOKE: The Leaving and The Breezing
Her putting on her makeup looking equally stressed and depressed is so relatable
I love that she only goes to work to eat chocolate and read a book. These days a lot of office workers go to work literally to spend all day looking at RUclips videos. Some things never change.
Yes and speeding to be on time.... Presenteism. I hate it
From 4:46 to the end of hat making i still somehow find it really cute and wholesome in a way
海外アニメーションは特に食べ物の横を全力で走り去って全力で浮き上がった食べ物が皿にすっぽり帰っていくシーンが大好き
This kind of animation is amazing, it turns a story that's incredibly boring to something I can't stop watching!
This has got to be the best humor in cartoons
The way the man was talking to the bellman @ 1:42 if it was nearby a barber shop at a hotel as I can't tell looks so realistic! It's hard to believe this cartoon short aired 8 decades ago as it makes me adore how old cartoons are created and drawn as they seem more detailed than today's cartoons if you ask me!
maisie is just trying her best and I love her
Great high quality animation. The movements were smooth. Love these very old cartoons. They were showing these all the way up to the 70s.
I'm a 90's baby and got to see all the classics growing up including the black and white classics
Wind Lady made in the 40s
there was no such thing as computer animation
it was said that these short animations were hand drawn and took months to make
@@fargeeks Our love of creativity has gone away. Now it's fast pressed and sent on it's way.
@@fargeeks how the fuck do you think computer animation is made, i wonder? You think theres a "make animation" button or what? Lmao
1:18 the way the animated milk and drinks spill reminds me a lot of the really old Tom and Jerry episodes I watched as a kid 😭
This cartoon was 80 years ago my gosh it looks better than a lot of nowadays cartoon
"Going Going Gone With The Wind" annd "Departing With The Breeze, Vol. 2"
Its basically gone with the wind. And gone with the wind 2 (i don't know if the sequel exist)
A movie sequel exists called Scarlet, and it's terrible.
So, how many people actually laughed at a few of the jokes in this?
I chuckled at that cat in the window arching its back and hissing then slamming the window and cowering behind the blinds after seeing the lady's hat
I was smiling through it all, and laughed a few times too
1:27-1:40 🤣
I chuckled when the Hatter stopped to look at his creation through binoculars XD
Made the 666th like. You're welcome
Her wake routine is a mood
とうとう私のオススメにこれが出てくるようになったか……(遠目)
“And Maisy looks like...well” damn💀💀😂
I really do appreciate classic animation.
God, words cannot describe how much I LOVE traditional animation! Not to throw CG under the bus or anything, but it just does not stack up to hand-drawn, imo. That's real animation!
4:15 Ahhh now i understand, i took a history class last semester on 11th grade and they explained that the mercury in hats made hat makers all crazyyyyy- i was so confused as a kid and the joke just flow over my head- after 12+ years I understand it 💀
Somehow I feel like if we could interview Masie in 2023 she would say she enjoyed her life and had few regrets.
Her lunch looked AMAZING! 😂💜💜💜
Great to see they had educational cartoons meant to call out society even back then. Good job!
I love old cartoons! I like the scenes in the early parts. That's still exactly what most young workers do every morning. Haha!
The first part of this animation is so unrelated to the latter.
This was made in 1940, but this has this energy of some yt cartoon short from some animator with 15k-20k subs, that would randomly show up in my recommended with at least 5M views.
That's how you know the short aged like Fine Wine.
Why did they portray her as not doing any real work at her job?
Welp, it was a product of its time
Probably meant as a joke. I sometimes slack off whenever the boss isn't looking.
at least she's working and is not a stay at home mother
Because it was still odd to the patriachists and men with fragile egos to believe into intelligent and hard working women so they were displayed as this. Working women were still unusual in that time. If you look at other videos and advertisements you may notice they are having the same images as well.
@Zeesaialeaizmad123 I don't think that last comment was a dig at stay at home mothers. More of an observation that women of that time rarely worked outside the home. Seeing a working woman represented in the 40s was progressive for the era. The cartoonist at least doesn't have her at home, changing diapers and lighting her hubby's pipe, as though that's a woman's sole purpose.
And they always say fastfood and crap diet is a new thing. This girl here having donuts and coffee for breakfast, a bowl of icecream for lunch and eats candy for eight hours straight.
2:49 - 3:39 I love how there were only around 6 or 7 vaguely normal looking hats in that entire 50 seconds
Im going to become a hat designer, let me just finish this plate of mercury first
I love how the old animation was very smooth and beautiful
geez i couldnt imagine living like this, i give myself a whole ten minutes before work to get ready
Good to know that the doofus notion of brushing one's teeth and then eating breakfast was common even back then.
R C Nelson -----Do you eat breakfast with your mouth dirty , full of germs and bacteria and awfully stinking right after you just woke up ? eeew! that's gross and disgusting !
@@masterofdarkness9212 what's the point of brushing and then eat? brushing after is more convenient
@@pandaexpress7673 But then you mouth is gross when you're eating. Eating with a clean mouth seems far more enjoyable.
@@Nocturne22 Not only will everything taste like toothpaste, but you'll also just make your mouth filthy again. Not that mouths are *ever* clean.
Yall are tearing eachother apart over breakfest and toothpaste
my 82 year old grandmother was just a baby when the cartoon was released!
Masie is the world’s greatest speedrunner
I DIED at how she gets up and gets to work 😂😂🤣🤣
Omg put that scene at 2x speed
glad to know that the average desk job hasn't changed in the better part of a century
Her trying to catch up with work reminded me of my experience to the point where I see in dreams that I'm always late or trying to catch up with work
“Still keeping her pace with indigestion.” 😂
Anyone notice??? She is reading "Gone With The Wind" 😍
It is wholesome we get to see the animation in the past for free
I have vague memories of watching this when I was younger. RUclips recommendations work in mysterious ways
Accurate representation of my life in the first two minutes
3:09 “Princess Eugenies’ Convertible Snood”
That could literally be anything!
2:26 does anyone notice the book being “Departing with the breeze” 😂
I think the cartoon not only shows the mercury problem of that time,
Also consumerism and the fact that we all practically kill ourselves to later spend the money on fashions that designers could well get out of it under the influence of a crazy person.
The cat hissing at the end denotes how unnatural the natural world finds fashion.
Honestly that whole beginning is me for anything
4:32 *I'm scared*
Artistic Fruit loops
hold it Chester hOLD IT CHEster
I love classic cartoons❤
i miss this kind of animation. it feels nostalgic
i find it wonderfully charming that the very intelligent conversations below are being ellicited by this fascinating cartoon there is hope for intelligent conversations,,,,
I have been looking for this cartoon for years
Even though I was born in 2000’s, I am obsessed watching 1900’s cartoons
Me to expect l was born in 2006
Lmao her morning routine is so relatable 1:10 XD
5:12 him doing that is so random
Amazing animation ! They will never made something like that again unfortunately .
This is really good for a 1940s cartoon, it's quirky and cute
I knew it! The people behind women's fashion ARE insane!
This was posted in 2013 but appears in everyone’s feed just this year ahah
despite the incredibly problematic nature of this film the sheer amount of original animation would never be seen today, this film would be prohibitively expensive in todays market.
That's just because they would want to do some 3d animation bullshit.
Absolutely!
What's problematic in this animation?
@@wS21z. it's expensive
@@wS21z. I think it's not the animation, but rather the sexism and the ridicule of mental illness.
Thanks RUclips. Now I see that cartoons nowadays don't have any chance against these jewels. I can feel the passion and emotion from every frame, right on my skin.
This was incredibly odd but I legit lol'd at the hat try on and crazy artist scenes. Surprisingly funny and well animated
THE INTROO, IM CRYING SO MUCH NOSTALGIA
I dont know why, but out of all the gags in this cartoon, it was the binoculars that got me.
The quality.. So much better than today
I feel so called out by the opening sequence of Maisie heading to work
Y’all here are like “This is exactly my morning routine”, lol I’d like to see you run faster than that bus.
The colors, artwork and animation in this cartoon--awesome! The creativity is much better than usual. They put a lot of extra effort into this one!
The Golden times of cartoons.
Still laughing at the sign that goes "please dont feed the hat designers"
素敵！日本語字幕もあれば良いのにな。
Okay, RUclips recommendations. I'll watch this.
You like it?
i dont know what it is but theres an oddly satisfying comfort in Vintage Cartoon.
We need Maisy's makeup tutorial
The narrator and the Mad Hatter making Masie’s hat is amazing 😍😍😍
cool fact: at 6:53 it shows the Columbia lady having an american flag wrapped around her. We all know her from just looking like a pretty lady with some white curtains draped on her but she actually has an importance. Columbia is actually the female symbol of America. She was used during WW1 and used in WW2 for recruitment posters. Nice thing to know whenever you watch a movie and see the credit for it being made my Columbia Pictures
dammit the beginning of this short is a fucking mood.
Everyone judging the people who made the cartoon saying that it’s insensitive that they depict women of just being lazy and eating candy at work. You don’t know Macy’s life! Maybe she taste test candies! Or maybe she reads books for a publishing company! You don’t know Macy’s life! Don’t judge! Do you know how hard it was to make a colored cartoons back in the 1940s! It’s hard!
I'm a man and I spend my workday eating candy.
The fact that she still payed the bus 😭
A 7 minute and 6 second 1940s animated short about roasting hat makers, sounds about right.