Skulls and Sculls

A not great print of this sound Felix cartoon. While the cartoon isn't rare, finding a much better print seems to be! Hopefully we'll have one for the Felix project when it continues! This is one of the last made by the Sullivan Studio.

[@eSPy86]

Fantastic timing for Halloween! Sounds like the same music as Silly Symphony The Skeleton Dance (1929) which I'm now learning is called "The March of the Trolls" by composer Edvard Grieg.

[@luizfernandocanaloficial9511]

Unfortunately, the audio is out of order... But it shows the same copy with the audio in the right order, from Not an Animation Historian.

[@joecab1]

Perfect timing as it’s almost Halloween and this week in Boston is Head of the Charles Regatta. 👍🏽

[@tymime]

Odd, the audio seems to be out of sync

[@canversink.2841]

Oh its very out of sync. The print actually seems to be spliced too.

[@luizfernandocanaloficial9511]

​@@canversink.2841It's not that out of sync, just 7 seconds out.

[@luizfernandocanaloficial9511]

​​@@canversink.2841By the way, why did you delete the other comment? It was such a good curiosity that almost no one imagined it. Did you end up making a mistake, or did you delete it because you thought what happened was a fight? I even thought that Clyde Geronimi animated in this episode, but I didn't think that was true.

[@killuagernia3741]

@luizfernandocanaloficial9511 I think it's entirely possible that Clyde Geronimi animated part of this cartoon, as he mentioned in an interview with Michael Barrier that he was still working on Felix's cartoons in 1930.

[@cartoonhuntingseason8683]

Did someone say Felix project!

[@jeffmissinne3866]

The Felix version of "Bimbo's Initiation"??

[@luizfernandocanaloficial9511]

Actually, the correct one should be "The Bimbo version of "Skulls and Sculls"??", since this short came 2 years before "Bimbo's Initiation", but I know you're used to this episode of Bimbo, because it It's more viewed than this one...

[@ProfessorEchoMedia]

I appreciated this being uploaded for the season, but man the vintage Felix cartoons sure knew how to milk the gags long after they were funny or clever, if they ever were in the first place, which I doubt. I used to love the Felix cartoons, but these days they seem so drawn out with unfunny ideas that are stretched beyond their breaking point.

[@killuagernia3741]

I think you're being a bit hard on this cartoon, because at the time Otto Messmer and Pat Suvillan devoted all their energy to synchronizing the cartoons with sound, which unfortunately led to a drop in quality. Still, I think there were some very good episodes produced at the time, such as "Forty Winks".