Between the low quality, the fact that Dorothy's eyes randomly go black around 1:00, the overall creepy feel of it, the fact that nobody has ever been able to figure out where this even came from...it just gives the whole thing a very creepypasta-ish feel. ...Except that it's not just a creepypasta; it actually exists. That just makes it even more unsettling...
That rotoscoped shot really creeps up on ya, yikes. Really wish we knew more about this... where it came from, when it was made, why it was made. Anything really.
Shit, I've just noticed that Dorothy's eyes disappear at 1:00, just before it fades into the next scene. On top of everything else about this (Terrible animation, cheap production values, the fact nobody knows anything about where it came from.), it gives it a pretty disturbing, Creepypasta-like feel.
From what I can tell, it looks like it was made for TV. The copyright for "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" expired in the 1950s (copyrights had shorter lives back then), and there was subsequently a bunch of versions issued in the book world, featuring illustrators who were eager to show their own take on the characters. As such, I think this cartoon was made for TV with the hope that it would launch some kind of series. That would explain why it's only in B&W (although "Crusader Rabbit" - the first cartoon made specifically for TV - was filmed in color). Given that the first TV broadcast of the MGM "Wizard of Oz" was in 1956/7, perhaps that's when this cartoon was made. The broadcast of the MGM movie galvanized a whole new fan base to the story, so it wouldn't surprise me that someone wouldn't jump at the opportunity to animate the characters - particularly with Disney (who bought the rights to the other Oz books) and his Mouseketeers having performed their own take on the Oz characters on the "Mickey Mouse Club" around 1957.
While Dorothy's eye going black for a sec is pretty fucking creepy, disappearing elements were a frequent error unique to this type of cel animation. It also was just as subtle as those mistakes, whereas a modern creepypasta maker would most likely go overboard with the horror. Now the rotoscoping bit, that is troubling.
It was made in 1933, from Film Laboratories Canada. Since the animation was done by one person, with apparently little experience and a really low budget, the animation has been recycled over and over. The music was written by Carl Stalling, who would later compose the music for almost every one of the Looney Toons cartoons. At least HE went somewhere.
I don't care how old this is, there is NO excuse for a cartoon like this to be so atrocious. The animation from first ever Felix the Cat cartoon from 1919 was AWESOME compared to this!
I tried, but it's hard to find information on it... However, I did find this... animationsmears.tumblr.com/post/19251801213/smear-frame-from-the-magic-of-oz-1962-1964 Apparently, It's from the 1960s...
nah see Foodfight may be cursed as fuck, totally ugly, and blatantly over-animated but at least something that is over-animated is still animated and has some memetic value. This is just so stiff and lazy that it's unpleasant to look at.
I would guess this was an unsold pilot film shopped around to TV syndicators somewhere in the 1950's. It was probably shot in 35mm color, though this video transfer appears to be from a 16mm print, and of course B/W. It may have been sold off to recoup some of its cost, and ended up thrown into one of the many packages of miscellaneous cartoons released to small-market TV stations back then.
This falls into the category of 'so bad it's almost enjoyable' for me. It's bizarre, unsettling yet fascinating to watch over and over. Also, something about Dorothy's face at 3:30 comes off as somewhat unnerving.
Wow. This is claimed to be from the SIXTIES! Lip syncing is Paddy Pelican style. You can HARDLY hear any of them. It looks like it was animated by ONE person. What is up with the rotoscoping of Dorothy is VERY off - even if the rest of the short was rotoscoped. And there are lots of claims of this being from the 60's. Wow !
Before video: Oh, come on, it can't be THAT bad! After video: I REALLY NEED TO STOP SAYING THAT. Also, this is a Goldmine of modern YTP potential waiting to be milked I feel like.
How have I gone for decades of Oz fandom without ever hearing of this? Is it remotely possible that it is spurious? Something someone came up with in 1995 (or some similarly recent year) imitating a variety of bad animation styles from past decades? It would explain the anomalies like the one-second rotoscope movement.
Its been said this may have been made not so long after the 1939 MGM film was released. Judging by the crap quality in sound and the merry melody like animation. I assume this was animated on a low budget by some unknown film company
@@criminallyautistic8372 Since the book did not enter the public domain (remember when there was a robust public domain in this country?) until 1956, and the makers of this film clearly could not afford to pay the copyright holder a fee, I doubt it could have been made before 1956. The style in some ways resembles the extremely limited animation made for television in the 1950s (e.g., Crusader Rabbit). But I still suspect shenanigans.
@@criminallyautistic8372 Comparing this animation to the Merrie Melodies or any other mainstream animated cartoons from the 1930s - '50s is like comparing stick figures to a Rembrandt portrait.
Holy sh*t, random rotoscoping at 4:05! I can't decide if that or the fact that the song about the Wizard is *just* different enough from the one from the slightly better-known adaptation so they don't sue is my favorite bit.
We're so close to William, but we're running low on animation budget! Quick! Put all the previous clips in the movie together! Use all that stock footage! Use it with all your might!!!
The guy who did the backround music was apparently really famous in Austria. He was an opera maker and some other stuff like that. This leads me to believe this may be an Austrian film.
Doubtful that this is European since Csonka had to flee to Havana after the Anschluss (being an anti-fascist with a Jewish ancestor). He fled Cuba after conducting a concert in Miami, Florida in the early 60s. It makes sense to me that someone in a new country with few resources and decades of musical experience would get involved in something like this, if only for money.
Wow, this is pretty awful animation -even for that time. you literally can see recycled imagery & repetitive animation within a matter of seconds of each other, & you can tell that they're just modifying their facial expressions at times.
I am fascinated by how cheap this cartoon is. How could they get away with it? Sound is a disaster. They put no detail in the animation. They would not spring for color. And they decided they do not have to put much in to the writing.
This seems like a failed something-or-other that is being recycled or even auditioned for something much larger, perhaps a feature-length musical cartoon. At any rate, it failed.
What......the HELL....did I just watch?! No story, inaudible dialogue, the worst animation I've seen since the commercial for Dino Time accidentally aired on Nickelodeon.....is this the Bizarro World equivalent of the Wizard of Oz movie or something?!
OK, from what I can tell, this was an Italian cartoon that got translated to English in the 1940's. Aside from that, it may be from some sort of series, as the plot seems to be about 1/2 to 3/5 the way through, and it definitely post dates the 1939 movie.
there's just something so..... creepy about this "cartoon". and the fact that we literally don't know ANYTHING about how/why it was made, who made it and where it even came from.... screw what i said about Paddy the Pelican feeling like the first "animated" creepypasta ever made. this thing takes that title
@FeriBlackadder391 I'm not sure when this was made, as I can't find any information about the making of it. Cartoon expert Jerry Beck doesn't even know when or where this came from.
This short…jeez, this short. Robert Capeheart must’ve been drunk or something when he made this because, while it actually does move, it does very poorly, and the footage is either fluid and reused a crudton, or cruddy and reused even more. Then there’s the rotoscoped shot of Dorothy because apparently Robert couldn’t animate BENDING OVER. #3 on my worst 50s-60s animation list.
@@Outcastproductions2 I’ve recently changed my list, and The Magic of Oz is now number 2. Number 1 is that “Before you go back to school” Zayre commercial.
Aaron: Yeah, the Italian theory seems plausible to me, too. The producer's other credit is for a production whose cast and crew are all Italian, and I would bet all the names in the credits on this (aside from the music, which was changed for US release I'm sure) are pseudonyms.
Experts who have seen it say that it is impossible for it to have been made in the 40's due to some of the animation techniques that were used in it. It's dated around 1962-1964. Weird.
So, apparently the producer, George Richfield, worked on a pair of films in 1948 and 1950. The Opera Film Festival and Little Red Riding Hood. You can actually find Opera Film Festival on RUclips, but it's a live-action film. I have absolutely no clue what Little Red Riding Hood is, though. Can't find it anywhere. And I dunno if either of these films are the same George Richfield as this...thing.
Whoever labeled this "the worst cartoon ever" has apparently never seen _Beavis & Butthead, Ren & Stimpy, Family Guy, The Simpsons, King of the Hill,_ the reboot of _Animaniacs,_ the Gene Deitch _Tom and Jerry_ series, etc etc. etc.
There are films way worse than this and paddy the pelican Ie: animal soccer world, ratatoing, the little panda fighter, space chimps 2, happily never after, etc.
There _is_ a Paul Csonka on IMDb credited with a few late 50's music credits, and a George Richfield given a 1948 producing credit for another film, so possibly made sometime in the 50's.
No, rotoscoping was around as early as 1915 and was patened by Max Fleisher, who used it in such cartoons as ; Out of the Inkwell and Gullivers Travels (1939).
@@cinemafanatic2010 Rotoscoping was also used on some Disney movies like Snow White, Pinocchio and Cinderella and also on the Fleischer's Superman series.
It is very likely that the reason you can't find it on the internet is because references to it are buried as vague mentions in those things called *books* about the history of the story and the famous MGM film...there are often sections of what was detailed before. When I saw this, it stirred a very vague memory, but only because I'd read it years ago.
I don't think this is quite as bad as people say it is, and I'm sure this is earlier than the 60s. Back then animation was long and a painstaking effort and likely there was budget/time constraints or it was never truly finished. More effort went into this than a lot of youtube videos. This is probably from the 40s. This was animated by one person, give the guy in his grave a break, we're less harsh on worse youtube animations.
Between the low quality, the fact that Dorothy's eyes randomly go black around 1:00, the overall creepy feel of it, the fact that nobody has ever been able to figure out where this even came from...it just gives the whole thing a very creepypasta-ish feel.
...Except that it's not just a creepypasta; it actually exists. That just makes it even more unsettling...
AuroraKnux
Oh my god, those soulless eyes... Nightmare fuel at its best.
AuroraKnux Black eyes... hmmm.... sounds like Dorothy got the virus from The X-Files!
WesIsaLeo THE SECRET FORMULA TO THE KRABBY PATTY IS
Or maybe it was an problem they fixed?
CP are irritating and over rated, stupid tarded stories.
That rotoscoped shot really creeps up on ya, yikes.
Really wish we knew more about this... where it came from, when it was made, why it was made. Anything really.
Saga Saga I can probably find some things up about it
Shit, I've just noticed that Dorothy's eyes disappear at 1:00, just before it fades into the next scene. On top of everything else about this (Terrible animation, cheap production values, the fact nobody knows anything about where it came from.), it gives it a pretty disturbing, Creepypasta-like feel.
Welp, I didn't need to sleep tonight....
This will make a great creepypasta then Jeff the killer
@@somerandomuser3465 if Dorothy joined them than her name would be eyeless Dorothy
It came from director Robert Capeheart and writers Art Newman and George Richfield.
This is like if GoAnimate was around in the sixties.
lol
CrazyRiverOtter don't insult goanimate like this
Oh, but it is
That's an insult to GoAnimate
My heart goes out to all the WW2 heroes that were forced into seeing THIS before being shipped off overseas to fight the nazis.
This is from 1963.
@@MaskedMan66Huh, I could’ve sworn this was before the 1939 film
@@splinky9226 There was a cartoon short in 1933, but that one was in color and didn't include the Cowardly Lion.
Hell, THIS makes Hanna Barbera's works look like they're from Studio Ghibli.
From what I can tell, it looks like it was made for TV. The copyright for "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" expired in the 1950s (copyrights had shorter lives back then), and there was subsequently a bunch of versions issued in the book world, featuring illustrators who were eager to show their own take on the characters. As such, I think this cartoon was made for TV with the hope that it would launch some kind of series. That would explain why it's only in B&W (although "Crusader Rabbit" - the first cartoon made specifically for TV - was filmed in color). Given that the first TV broadcast of the MGM "Wizard of Oz" was in 1956/7, perhaps that's when this cartoon was made. The broadcast of the MGM movie galvanized a whole new fan base to the story, so it wouldn't surprise me that someone wouldn't jump at the opportunity to animate the characters - particularly with Disney (who bought the rights to the other Oz books) and his Mouseketeers having performed their own take on the Oz characters on the "Mickey Mouse Club" around 1957.
So, 4:08 *looks* rotoscoped, but why would they change animation style for half a second?
Well, it's the same people who chose to use the same few cel frames every 2 seconds, so I've chosen not to question the rotoscoping at this point.
Apparently they couldn’t animate Dorothy bending down
It looks so bad
3:55 She runs past that tree like 20 times...
The reuseage is so obvious it hurts
While Dorothy's eye going black for a sec is pretty fucking creepy, disappearing elements were a frequent error unique to this type of cel animation. It also was just as subtle as those mistakes, whereas a modern creepypasta maker would most likely go overboard with the horror.
Now the rotoscoping bit, that is troubling.
If the creators of paddy the pelican had a higher budget.
Higher by about 30 cents and a free handjob.
CreatoR*
Lol right?
Nah those stories were a bit more creative than this.
This is a glitch in the universe itself.
Where the fuck it did came from?
It's a Missingno. wet dream...
It was made in 1933, from Film Laboratories Canada. Since the animation was done by one person, with apparently little experience and a really low budget, the animation has been recycled over and over. The music was written by Carl Stalling, who would later compose the music for almost every one of the Looney Toons cartoons. At least HE went somewhere.
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I am fairly sure that's a different adaptation of The Wizard of Oz...
There have been 22 adaptations, including the first, being in 1908.
I've checked earlier the 1933 adaptation, but the credits at the beginning don't match up with what the article says
It was on the Worst Cartoons Ever dvd from one of the Comic Cons.
What kind of welcome can the wizard be preparing for Dorothy and her friends? NOTHING!!! ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!!
Good lord, did this suck...
Bobsheaux! Fancy seeing you here.
"A Cartoon Film Presentation"? Were the creators really that ashamed to use an actual name? Well, they should have been.
I don't care how old this is, there is NO excuse for a cartoon like this to be so atrocious. The animation from first ever Felix the Cat cartoon from 1919 was AWESOME compared to this!
Maybe this was for Television, but they had such a low budget that this is what they had to work with....
They didn't have television in 1933.
I don't think this is from the 1930s.
Many cartoons back then had way better character designs than this.
Nah. Look it up dude.
I tried, but it's hard to find information on it...
However, I did find this...
animationsmears.tumblr.com/post/19251801213/smear-frame-from-the-magic-of-oz-1962-1964
Apparently, It's from the 1960s...
In the words of AVGN:
"This is unspeakably, shockingly bad, it's sickeningly loathsome!"
whos here because of eudoxia?
Meee 😂
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Still better than Foodfight.
Good point! At least this is so bad, it's good, especially if one has seen the Hades Riff on this! Foodfight is just... no...
Not as ugly.
Silver Star Animation And this is shorter so the audience suffering isn't as long.
The Foodfight had one redeeming quality - Mr. Clipboard.
nah see
Foodfight may be cursed as fuck, totally ugly, and blatantly over-animated
but at least something that is over-animated is still animated and has some memetic value.
This is just so stiff and lazy that it's unpleasant to look at.
I couldn't even make out what they were saying the audio was so crap.
I would guess this was an unsold pilot film shopped around to TV syndicators somewhere in the 1950's. It was probably shot in 35mm color, though this video transfer appears to be from a 16mm print, and of course B/W. It may have been sold off to recoup some of its cost, and ended up thrown into one of the many packages of miscellaneous cartoons released to small-market TV stations back then.
4:22 You can't be a real actor. With unnecessary pauses my friend!
This falls into the category of 'so bad it's almost enjoyable' for me. It's bizarre, unsettling yet fascinating to watch over and over. Also, something about Dorothy's face at 3:30 comes off as somewhat unnerving.
Wow. This is claimed to be from the SIXTIES! Lip syncing is Paddy Pelican style. You can HARDLY hear any of them. It looks like it was animated by ONE person. What is up with the rotoscoping of Dorothy is VERY off - even if the rest of the short was rotoscoped. And there are lots of claims of this being from the 60's. Wow !
Before video: Oh, come on, it can't be THAT bad!
After video: I REALLY NEED TO STOP SAYING THAT.
Also, this is a Goldmine of modern YTP potential waiting to be milked I feel like.
How have I gone for decades of Oz fandom without ever hearing of this? Is it remotely possible that it is spurious? Something someone came up with in 1995 (or some similarly recent year) imitating a variety of bad animation styles from past decades? It would explain the anomalies like the one-second rotoscope movement.
Its been said this may have been made not so long after the 1939 MGM film was released. Judging by the crap quality in sound and the merry melody like animation. I assume this was animated on a low budget by some unknown film company
@@criminallyautistic8372 Since the book did not enter the public domain (remember when there was a robust public domain in this country?) until 1956, and the makers of this film clearly could not afford to pay the copyright holder a fee, I doubt it could have been made before 1956. The style in some ways resembles the extremely limited animation made for television in the 1950s (e.g., Crusader Rabbit). But I still suspect shenanigans.
@@majkus You're probably right. Again I assume its from a low budget from a un known company
@@criminallyautistic8372 Comparing this animation to the Merrie Melodies or any other mainstream animated cartoons from the 1930s - '50s is like comparing stick figures to a Rembrandt portrait.
I've heard that the possible year it was made in is somewhere between 1968-1972.
This is some creepypasta type shit here.
I keep expecting a screaing corpse or something to pop up...
The fact that the scare never pops up probably makes it worse/creeper
Holy sh*t, random rotoscoping at 4:05!
I can't decide if that or the fact that the song about the Wizard is *just* different enough from the one from the slightly better-known adaptation so they don't sue is my favorite bit.
Random one second rotoscope, just for the hell of it
I love how the "music" flits around the edge of the film's score without quite getting there to avoid the copyright issues!
For a cartoon of them trying to see the Wizard of Oz, the cartoon sure ended on them ON their way to seeing him. How anticlimatic.
Reuse that animation! Reuse it with all your might!!
***** XD
We're so close to William, but we're running low on animation budget! Quick! Put all the previous clips in the movie together! Use all that stock footage! Use it with all your might!!!
The guy who did the backround music was apparently really famous in Austria. He was an opera maker and some other stuff like that. This leads me to believe this may be an Austrian film.
Doubtful that this is European since Csonka had to flee to Havana after the Anschluss (being an anti-fascist with a Jewish ancestor). He fled Cuba after conducting a concert in Miami, Florida in the early 60s.
It makes sense to me that someone in a new country with few resources and decades of musical experience would get involved in something like this, if only for money.
Alas, Elton John and Tim Rice's first efforts on an animated musical weren't QUITE as successful as their second...
1:01-1:06 Oz, a magical land where birds are animated smoother than the characters we are supposed to be caring about
and then the wicked witch of the west kills them. The End
Except this time she's a hero for saving us from this abomination.
And everyone died the end
This could have been a lot w-
- actually no, it really couldn't have been any worse.
Wow, this is pretty awful animation -even for that time. you literally can see recycled imagery & repetitive animation within a matter of seconds of each other, & you can tell that they're just modifying their facial expressions at times.
I am fascinated by how cheap this cartoon is. How could they get away with it?
Sound is a disaster. They put no detail in the animation. They would not spring for color. And they decided they do not have to put much in to the writing.
Where's the tie-in creepypasta?
Share it with mrcreepypasta and let's just wait and see.
It doesn't need one. No creepypasta can hold sufficient amount of terror to describe... this.
Suddenly, a hyper-realistic of Dorothy...
The only part you truly need to see is 3:28.
Something I never thought I'd see Dorthy's O face
What were they thinking?
Looks like some unfinished pitch for a planned animated film that got abandoned when MGM picked up the movie rights.
This Makes "Megamind Versus The Doom Syndicate" And "Megamind Rules" Look Like Masterpieces.
Did anyone else see Dorothy transition into a rotoscope like animation there?
Definitely the worst cartoon out them all. Even Paddy the Pelican is better than this!
REUSE
ALL THE FRAMES!!!
This seems like a failed something-or-other that is being recycled or even auditioned for something much larger, perhaps a feature-length musical cartoon. At any rate, it failed.
Makes Johnny Test look like Akira
0:11
Oh my god, it's a face of a devil!!
What......the HELL....did I just watch?!
No story, inaudible dialogue, the worst animation I've seen since the commercial for Dino Time accidentally aired on Nickelodeon.....is this the Bizarro World equivalent of the Wizard of Oz movie or something?!
LOL When did a commercial for a movie called Dino Time ever "accidentally "air on Nickelodeon?
1:35 I'm sorry Dorothy, can you speak up? We're in the forest of hissing trees!
Paddy the Pelican looks better
And that's why it's called "The Dark Age of Animation".
OK, from what I can tell, this was an Italian cartoon that got translated to English in the 1940's. Aside from that, it may be from some sort of series, as the plot seems to be about 1/2 to 3/5 the way through, and it definitely post dates the 1939 movie.
I think it might have been animated by Italians who were poorly paid!
Quoth the raven, "nevermore”.
there's just something so..... creepy about this "cartoon". and the fact that we literally don't know ANYTHING about how/why it was made, who made it and where it even came from.... screw what i said about Paddy the Pelican feeling like the first "animated" creepypasta ever made. this thing takes that title
3:02-3:10 who needs courage when you can air guitar, do 8 backflips and desintigrate all in one jump?
I didn't think it was possible to fuck up The Wizard of Oz beyond comprehension, but they managed to do it.
This deserves a Bad Animations.
@FeriBlackadder391 I'm not sure when this was made, as I can't find any information about the making of it. Cartoon expert Jerry Beck doesn't even know when or where this came from.
This scares me. Legit. Horror doesnt scare me but this does. Its just so god damn scary without the sound
The hell happened to Dorothy's face at 3:29?
The singing in this makes me have strong vibes of Terrytoons and Mighty Mouse. XXXDDD But the animation in this is HORRIBLE compared to Terrytoons. XD
4:07 WTF happened to her?
rotoscoped scene
monterrang1 Well, that was horribly done!
CREEPY😨
This cartoon gave me cancer
This short…jeez, this short. Robert Capeheart must’ve been drunk or something when he made this because, while it actually does move, it does very poorly, and the footage is either fluid and reused a crudton, or cruddy and reused even more. Then there’s the rotoscoped shot of Dorothy because apparently Robert couldn’t animate BENDING OVER. #3 on my worst 50s-60s animation list.
What's two and one?
@@Outcastproductions2 I’ve recently changed my list, and The Magic of Oz is now number 2. Number 1 is that “Before you go back to school” Zayre commercial.
Aaron: Yeah, the Italian theory seems plausible to me, too. The producer's other credit is for a production whose cast and crew are all Italian, and I would bet all the names in the credits on this (aside from the music, which was changed for US release I'm sure) are pseudonyms.
Experts who have seen it say that it is impossible for it to have been made in the 40's due to some of the animation techniques that were used in it. It's dated around 1962-1964. Weird.
Then, It’s perhaps made by Hungarians I think.
I also noticed that moustache that appears and disappears on Dorothy's face as she sings
This makes Hanna-Barbera look like 2000s 2D Disney Animation.
Four words to describe the lion's song:
BIG LIPPED ALLIGATOR MOMENT!
So, apparently the producer, George Richfield, worked on a pair of films in 1948 and 1950. The Opera Film Festival and Little Red Riding Hood.
You can actually find Opera Film Festival on RUclips, but it's a live-action film. I have absolutely no clue what Little Red Riding Hood is, though. Can't find it anywhere. And I dunno if either of these films are the same George Richfield as this...thing.
Is there anywhere on the internet where Jerry Beck speaks about this?
This is horrible.......surprised MGM didn't sue.
I think the existence of the cartoon did enough damage to itself already.
Actually, the Wizard of Oz books are in the public domain, so no one can sue.
Exactly. The original book was in the public domain by the time the series premiered.
Whoever labeled this "the worst cartoon ever" has apparently never seen _Beavis & Butthead, Ren & Stimpy, Family Guy, The Simpsons, King of the Hill,_ the reboot of _Animaniacs,_ the Gene Deitch _Tom and Jerry_ series, etc etc. etc.
The lion looks like he's reading cue cards.
420 + 'Ineffable Mysteries' by Shpongle + This video without sound = Mind blown!
I like the animation, but it doesn't have any feelings, details and the sounds from front and back vocals shows a bad quality.🌸💧
Scarecrow didn't even do anything in this whole episode..
So that's it?
I can't help but feel they left a few bits and pieces of the story out in this adaptation.
still better than Paddy the Pelican
Anything is better than Paddy the Pelican.
Heck, this is actually a COMPLETE FINISH cartoon with ACTUAL backgrounds....
There are films way worse than this and paddy the pelican
Ie: animal soccer world, ratatoing, the little panda fighter, space chimps 2, happily never after, etc.
True atleast this has actual backrounds and more than one person voicing the characters
You know what this thing could've used? A POINT.
Looks like not all cartoons from the Golden Age of Animation were golden. This was more like... tarnished tin.
Someone has to do a reanimated version collab of this like NOW! XD It would be a whole lot better! XD
I can think of more comparisons! This makes Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland look like Spirited Away!
This makes Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return look good and that is saying a lot.
0:41 this is another bad animator like Sam Singer!
The Wizard of Oz from a German Expressionist view point.
There _is_ a Paul Csonka on IMDb credited with a few late 50's music credits, and a George Richfield given a 1948 producing credit for another film, so possibly made sometime in the 50's.
Paul Csonka the Hungarian American.
4:07 That is just creepy. Was that possibly the first use of rotoscoping in a cartoon?
No, rotoscoping was around as early as 1915 and was patened by Max Fleisher, who used it in such cartoons as ; Out of the Inkwell and Gullivers Travels (1939).
Noh it isn't the first
@@cinemafanatic2010 Rotoscoping was also used on some Disney movies like Snow White, Pinocchio and Cinderella and also on the Fleischer's Superman series.
I just realized that this movie had one guy doing the direction, design and animation. None of which he was suited for, apparently.
It is very likely that the reason you can't find it on the internet is because references to it are buried as vague mentions in those things called *books* about the history of the story and the famous MGM film...there are often sections of what was detailed before.
When I saw this, it stirred a very vague memory, but only because I'd read it years ago.
WHAT?!
WHAT?!
I CAN'T HEAR YOU! SPEAK UP!
When was this made? I have to know!!!
I'd give the guys who made this credit for trying, but I can't even do that.
Nah this can't be the worst cartoon when shit like nostalgia critics the wall review exists
Ladies and Gentlemen: Frank L. Baums' night terrors.
I don't think this is quite as bad as people say it is, and I'm sure this is earlier than the 60s. Back then animation was long and a painstaking effort and likely there was budget/time constraints or it was never truly finished. More effort went into this than a lot of youtube videos. This is probably from the 40s. This was animated by one person, give the guy in his grave a break, we're less harsh on worse youtube animations.
I heard that this was a theatrical short made sometime in either late 1960s or early 1970s.
1963.
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