This animation was made in 1930 and LSD was discovered in 1938, so, it wasn´t about a bad trip or made on LSD... some people have imagination, get over it.
Steal chicken= attacked by a plague of surreal and incredibly terrifying jazz demons who assault you and take you to hell. ...Why doesn't our justice system work like that? There would be much less crime. I wonder what the penalty for full blown murder is....
Good night! This is your finish brother! You're never going to get away! Oh no! Oh yeah! You'll never rob another hen-house! You've sinned and now you must ordain! Oh no! Oh yeah! We're going to pulverize you brother, You needed it! And scatter all your bones away! Chickens you used to steal! I don't steal no more! Craps you used to shoot! I don't shoot no more! Girls you used to chase! I don't chase no more. Get ready, brother! Your time has come! Stand up you sinner, we've got you at last! You can't get away, there's no time to pray, your finish is gonna be fast! Brother and sisters, come on get hot! We'll amputate your vodoyo and tie your bones in a knot! *scat solo* Brother you sure gonna get your face lifted! And a permanent shave! Ha! Ha! Ha! Where you want your body sent? Body? Huh! Ain't gonna be no body! Ha! Ha! Ha! You can't make any excuse So you'll quail in your boots 'Til we've picked up the noose Swing you sinners! For making chickens elope, You're at the end of your rope So just give up all hope Swing you sinners! *scat solo* We'll stretch you like a giraffe Maybe cut you in half Just to give us a laugh Swing you sinners! AAAAHHH!
I think "for making chickens elope" is actually "we'll make you chicken to lope" (= "we'll make you too scared to run away") obviously, a script would have existed at some point, but it was probably lost or thrown away a great many years ago
You know that even the cartoon "Family Guy" didn't even have shadows under their characters until the last two seasons. But here we have Fleischer Studios doing it in 1930. Mix that tiny bit of artisitc craft with the genius of their story writing, synchro work, and just general animation and we have a cartoon 80 years ahead of it's self.
The Fleischer brothers were certainly ahead of their time. I'd like to think it's this particular cartoon that influenced such works as Courage the Cowardly Dog and Adventure Time
evilmidget you certainly don’t build foundation blocks on the top of buildings. “Ahead of their time” means they could still stand out as everyone else hadn’t caught on yet. Unlike today where no one can truly stand out anymore....
@@estelleagravante9698 Yeah, in the 30s the Fleischer style and Disney style were in competition, and the Disney style won out. So it wasn't until much later that people re-discovered the Fleischer style and used it as an influence on the cartoons they created.
A few items about this cartoon- The music used- When the cop chases Bimbo, you hear "Big Boot Dance" from William Henry Myddleton's 1901 composition DOWN SOUTH (An American Sketch). And when the lock eats the key and the tombstones start singing, you're listening to part of Rube Bloom's 1929 concert piece SONG OF THE BAYOU. (When the tombstones sing, "Goodbye, this is your finish", Bloom's lyrics were "Oh Lord, please take away the darkness, Oh Lord, please take away the rain...") And the rest of the cartoon parodies hit song "Sing You Sinners", a pseudo-spiritual from a long forgotten 1930 Paramount Pictures musical HONEY. About the animation- Shamus Culhane said that at the time the studio was about to start SWING YOU SINNERS, a bunch of the Fleischer's best animators broke their contracts and headed for the West Coast and Hollywood. In desperation, Dave Fleischer promoted a group of assistants and in-betweeners to animators, Culhane among them, who with Grim Natwicks guidence animated the cartoon. I've been able to identify some of the animators in SWING YOU SINNERS- Open scenes where Bimbo fights the chicken are by Grim Natwick. The cop chase is Willard Bowsky. The key eating gate and singing tombstones are Seymour Kneitel. The singing grave and the jewish ghost are Al Eugster. Bimbo stuck in the dirt and confronted with his sins are Shamus Culhane. First scenes in the haunted barn up to the scatting chicken spook, Rudolph Eggman. Scatting chicken spook, Shamus Culhane. The barn chasing Bimbo and pursuing hobgoblins, Grim Natwick. Long line of ghosts following BImbo, Rudolph Eggman. And Bimbo eaten by the skull, Grim Natwick. The rest of the animators are a guess. So far, nobody has been able to idenify the group singing and playing on the soundtrack. Some sources claim the soundtrack was a phonograph record Lou Fleischer bought at a music store. The Fleischers did use phonograph records as soundtracks- Talkartoons HOT DOG and WISE FLIES are two examples, along with BETTY BOOP M.D. But if this is true, no collector has yet found a copy of that record, so for the time being the SWING YOU SINNERS soundtrack is a mystery. And for cripes sake, people, you don't need to be stoned or drunk to use your imagination. When FANTASIA re re-released in 1970, the guys who animated on it were beseiged by eager hippies demanding to know what drugs they took while they were working on the film. Art Babbitt got so fed up being asked that question, he would reply "Yeah I was on drugs- Pepto Bismo and Ex Lax!"
@@jaywalker7363 I think so. These are special lyrics for ‘Sing, you Sinners!” that appear nowhere else. So they must have written them, then did as you say.
@@HooDatDonDar You have said that junior animators were pressed into service because of walkouts - maybe they also had some fun by forming an impromptu jazz band.
He wasn't punished simply for stealing chickens. Bimbo (the dog character) was a known troublemaker in Fleischer cartoons - viewers understood his in the time.
Right before the frog guy pops up, you can make out "You're at the end of your rope, so just give up hope, swing you sinners!" The ghost with the noose is saying "Brotha yo sure gonna get yo face lifted!" The first ghost that appears says "You'll never rob another hen house." and the mound of dirt next to him says "You've sinned and now you must ordain." When he enters the barn I can make out "Stand up you sinner! We got you at last!" I wish I could tell more, but I'm mostly at a loss myself
So far I managed to decipher the following lines (uncertanties are in *bold* or between asterisks, depending on YT formatting quirks). Any suggestions are strongly encouraged! . Good night, this is your *(visit?)* from us. You’ll never learn to get away. “Oh no!” “Oh yes!” You’ll never rob another hen-house! You’ve sinned, and now you must ordain. “Oh no.” “Oh yes.” *(We're gonna rise you),* brother. Ya needed it. *(You get to / Too scared to?)* [haul your bones away?]. . Chickens you used to steal- I don’t steal no more! Craps you used to shoot- I don’t shoot no more! Girls you used to chase- I don’t chase no more. Get ready, brother, your time has come! . Stand up you sinner, We’ve got you at last. You can’t get away, there’s no time to pray, Your finish is going to be fast. Brothers and sisters, Come on get hot. We’ll amputate your *[bottom, yo?]*, And tie your bones in a knot. . - Brother, you sure are gonna get your face lifted! - And a permanent shave! - Where you want your body *[set/sent]*? - Body? Huh! Ain’t gonna be no body! . You can’t take any excuse, *(Oh you've spoiled your roots, / Ballroom coiled you loose?)* *(Shall we take up?)* the noose? Swing you sinners! . We’ll make your chicken *[elope?]*, You’re at the end of your rope, So just give up *(a?)* hope, Swing you sinners! . We’ll stretch you like a giraffe, Maybe cut you in half, Just to give us a laugh, Swing you sinners!
Cartoons were very spiritual along time ago, almost like they were made for adults instead of children this cartoon and the initiation of bimbo were saying sooooo much
They were made for adults, it was made during one of the most trying times of the 1900s, people needed a quick laugh and a distraction from everything going on in the world
Harvey Rothman Seems to me, based on his voice and general appearance, he's a caricature of a Jew. I could be wrong, though, but it seems to point in that direction.
What a great cartoon! I love all the creepy ghost and skeleton cartoons from this era, like Skeleton Dance and Mickey Mouse & the Mad Doctor. This one really stands apart for the wild imagery, you actually feel like you're going crazy yourself by the time the scatting frog shows up.
If anyone is wondering what's up with the "Jewish Ghost" at 3:27, it's a cartoon of Monroe Silver, a well known 1920's dialect comedian famous for 78rpm records such as "Cohen Phones to His Friend Levy", "Cohen Takes His Friend to the Opera" and others. He had a catch phrase, "Vot are you do-ink?"
So that's why Chad & Jared mentioned this cartoon? 3:27 says it all. I wish Popeye wasn't the only Fleischer Studio cartoon I had the chance to watch when I was a kid in the 90s. Oh, well.
First time I watched this, I had it on mute. I'd expected the music to.be very somber. The music makes it seems less sad; just a little bit though. And I was expecting the skull thing to be slow and dramatic. When it ate.him all abruptly and unexpectedly, it took me a minute to process it, then go "...Holy.crap."
I seen a lot of fliescher cartoons with scary ghosts before, and this one is the best. In most any cartoon they they make their scary faces, their howls, dances, and fly around. But when one's chasing you around and slashing a razor at you; thats a mean ghost.
Myself I always think the Fleischer Brothers animation from the 1930s always had their own idiosyncrasies and little personal touches which I've always loved and were far more surreal and bizarre and had a twisted humor unlike say the Disney films which were coming out at the same time.
The cartoons from that time that people remember, you know how they were trying to make you feel and what they were going for- Little Lulu wants you to laugh. I have no idea what Bimbo is supposed to do or how I should feel. Bimbo simply is.
Ice I honestly doubt it. Awesome animation, a 3 hour orchestrated soundtrack. I think it'll stick. But if its fanbase turns out ANYTHING like Undertale's...
Ice Not by its fans thatonedrewguy Why should we even care if it has a bad fanbase? Just enjoy the game or don't. I still like Undertale, and barely even notice the fanbase - and I do notice isn't even the worst of it, from what I've heard. Just focus on whether you like the game or not.
It makes a little more sense when you think about the context (this cartoon was made in the Great Depression). If you stole someone's chickens, that could mean causing them to starve. Also, if you went out for a night of gambling and came back with very little, you and your family would be in big trouble.
Since i was i kid i always felt some kind of fear about this kind of cartoon, but some weird fear, the same sensation i had by staring at some Dali paintings: A crazy neverending land, filled with weird faces, a place where the habitants always smiled and danced and they would stare at you, and even if that looked like a party you couldn't feel less happy. Instead you felt scared but there is no way out, because there, the world just dont have and end.
David Lee Roth wrote the song " Sinners Swing ", after watching this cartoon on tv while writing lyrics for the Van Halen supersmash hit masterpiece album, " Fair Warning ", way back in 1981. History for all the wrong reasons. Trippy old cartoon
Okay, this cartoon has nothing to do with drugs or a bad trip. This cartoon is about Bimbo( the dog in case you hadn't a clue) and how he was to be punished for his life of crime. He ran from the cop and eventually got locked inside the cemetery, where a legion of shrewd ghosts united to not only terrorize him for his life of crime and debauchery, but at some point to send him to hell for his sins. The creator of this, Fleischer Studios, was creative, and was attempting to teach children a lesson. Life is about choices, if you choose to do the wrong thing instead of the right, you shall pay for it. People should really stop assuming everything creative is about drugs. That's far from the truth. Don't come and preach that this animation is about drugs when you haven't a clue whether it's true or not. Because it's not. I'm also not Christian or Catholic so I'm not preaching about the lord, I'm just simply telling you what the cartoon was about. Thank you, for your time. Have a marvelous day!
I just realized that it's not "Swing you, sinners!" like they're using swing as a curse word, oh no, it's "Swing, you sinners!" as though they'll hang them for stealing some chickens. 1930's were harsh, man! Going to hell for chickens!
No, it’s swing as in ‘play that music’ Whenever there’s music The devil kicks He don’t allow music Down his river Styx Gospel music, of course. You need to get saved. Too late for bimbo, tho.
Anyone who thinks that cartoons were always for kids should watch this first. Not only is it surreal, it's pretty friggen morbid, too. And the animation is very well done, too.
The comical toon horror Is actually well done, psychedelic, but damn the eternal torment Is a terrible belief, i can't think about that even as a joke. P.S. aren't some ghosts stereotypical?
No LSD possible, but I think cocaine was involved. The scat-singing frog near the end rubs his hands all over himself - I have heard a crawling sensation on the skin can be caused by over-use of the drug, and the rubbing tries to relieve it. Also, several other Fleischer cartoons reference cocaine use. This may well be the source of some of this trippy imagery. Wild and imaginative, but grim without let-up. No getting away, no hiding under the covers, no waking up and it's all a dream, he's just ****ed.
I figured out the bit at the beginning, it's fairly close to the standard version: You sinners, drop everything Let that harmony ring Up to Heaven and sing Swing, you sinners Just wave your arms all about Let the Lord hear you shout Pour that music right out Swing, you sinners Whenever there's music The Devil kicks He don't allow music By the river Styx You're wicked and you're depraved And you've all misbehaved If you wanna be saved Swing, you sinners
Three different parts of this influenced Cuphead, actually. The part with the house chasing after Bimbo was the inspiration for the part where that cake castle chased after Cuphead. Also the first ghost on the ghost train was influenced by the ghost at 3:01, particularly the hands.
The concept of "cartoons" being a juvenile medium started to be generated after Disney defined the "family fantasy" market. His successes based on this added to the labeling of animation being a children's fantasy medium. But as we know, animation is as broad a medium as live action films are.
I swear that only the first four seconds are sane. Everything afterwards is nothing but a spree of hallucinogenic terror. It IS a very interesting and well-done animated short I have to say but it's honestly one of the scariest films I've seen!
Yes, they did add stuff as they went along. Shamus Culhane writes in TALKING ANIMALS AND OTHER PEOPLE about how this cartoon got a stronger response than the Eddie Cantor feature it played with. Shamus animated the crazy stuff at the end.
So, this is about a thief dog that is judged to be dead within a graveyard, submitted to enter into a mad mix of visions that torture him weighing on his conscience?
![Mad Hatter [Columbia/Screen Gems, 1940]](/img/1.gif)
This animation was made in 1930 and LSD was discovered in 1938, so, it wasn´t about a bad trip or made on LSD... some people have imagination, get over it.
But don't you understand? Anything even remotely abstract or creative HAS to have drugs involved with its conception!
And shrooms were only discovered in 2008, so it obviously can't be that....
Orgotheonemancult >Shrooms were only discovered in 2008
>The original LSD was designed to mimic the effects of psychedelic mushrooms
Madeyoulook51 Lol, I didn't actually know that. I was just being sarcastic to the op, Max Fleischer was clearly high as fuck 24/7.
Yeah, them magic mushrooms that let mortals communicate with gods are OP in the cartoon business
Old cartoons are just the best thing ever
i liked it now tis on 69 no one else like it
I like this old cartoon
Basically 40% of Cuphead origins, inspirations and certain characters come from
Swing You Sinners!
Imagine what our world would be like if Fleischer had outdone Disney
Siempre lo hago xd literal la cultura y la sociedad en general no sería la misma lol no exagero
I think Ralph bakshi and Don bluth would be joining forces if that had happened! What a time it would've been! Lol
3:29 that's it. that's cagney carnation's idle animation.
Oh my shit it is
coincidentally, I paused and checked the comments right when I saw that and your comment was the first one I saw!
I know!! My thoughts exactly
Cuphead’s main inspiration from what I heard actually was this short
Also the blaze brothers at 6:54
Steal chicken= attacked by a plague of surreal and incredibly terrifying jazz demons who assault you and take you to hell.
...Why doesn't our justice system work like that? There would be much less crime. I wonder what the penalty for full blown murder is....
good ship misery just like Skyrim steal that on chicken=unholy death
Heavy punishment retoric don't help in decrease crime tho :)
Well it was implied in the lyrics that he used to chase women and gamble excessively. Robbing a chicken is just one of his many crimes.
The demons will push you into a grave and pull you into HELL and You will fall into fire
Remind me to not steal chickens, as they must have connections to the grave yard mafia that would want to kill me.
For anyone who decides to like past the 69 point you would not be very nice of youu
Going to hell for stealing some chickens is a bit excessive.
right? lol
really, they got away.
+Xhyanghwa Chai
Keep in mind this was 1930, during the depression. Stealing a chicken was a pretty big deal at the time.
Well I can't argue with that.
*****
But he lost the election of '32 to FDR.
Good night! This is your finish brother!
You're never going to get away!
Oh no!
Oh yeah!
You'll never rob another hen-house!
You've sinned and now you must ordain!
Oh no!
Oh yeah!
We're going to pulverize you brother,
You needed it!
And scatter all your bones away!
Chickens you used to steal!
I don't steal no more!
Craps you used to shoot!
I don't shoot no more!
Girls you used to chase!
I don't chase no more.
Get ready, brother!
Your time has come!
Stand up you sinner, we've got you at last!
You can't get away, there's no time to pray, your finish is gonna be fast!
Brother and sisters, come on get hot!
We'll amputate your vodoyo and tie your bones in a knot!
*scat solo*
Brother you sure gonna get your face lifted!
And a permanent shave!
Ha! Ha! Ha!
Where you want your body sent?
Body? Huh! Ain't gonna be no body!
Ha! Ha! Ha!
You can't make any excuse
So you'll quail in your boots
'Til we've picked up the noose
Swing you sinners!
For making chickens elope,
You're at the end of your rope
So just give up all hope
Swing you sinners!
*scat solo*
We'll stretch you like a giraffe
Maybe cut you in half
Just to give us a laugh
Swing you sinners!
AAAAHHH!
Robert Ivey THANK YOU!!!
Thank you!
Finally I can sing along. Couldn't figure out all of the lines.
"Craps you used to shoot" sounds alot more like "Grouse you used to shoot" in-cartoon.
I think "for making chickens elope" is actually "we'll make you chicken to lope" (= "we'll make you too scared to run away")
obviously, a script would have existed at some point, but it was probably lost or thrown away a great many years ago
Maybe. I found the lyrics on another site.
You know that even the cartoon "Family Guy" didn't even have shadows under their characters until the last two seasons. But here we have Fleischer Studios doing it in 1930. Mix that tiny bit of artisitc craft with the genius of their story writing, synchro work, and just general animation and we have a cartoon 80 years ahead of it's self.
The Fleischer brothers were certainly ahead of their time. I'd like to think it's this particular cartoon that influenced such works as Courage the Cowardly Dog and Adventure Time
And some chapters of Sponge Bob
Literally all animation
evilmidget you certainly don’t build foundation blocks on the top of buildings. “Ahead of their time” means they could still stand out as everyone else hadn’t caught on yet. Unlike today where no one can truly stand out anymore....
I was thinking about Courage the Cowardly Dog calling and saying "Jesus and I thought I had problems with creepy shit." LOL.
@@estelleagravante9698 Yeah, in the 30s the Fleischer style and Disney style were in competition, and the Disney style won out. So it wasn't until much later that people re-discovered the Fleischer style and used it as an influence on the cartoons they created.
But did he get an S rank tho
Hugo Boss he clearly lost the last phase.
I haven't, dammit.
He did not parry
C u p h e a d J o k e s
No he was way out of time lost all his health and didn't parry
3:27 *has* to be the direct inspiration for the Floral Fury boss in Cuphead
The dance was actual quite popular in animation back the day
thought I recognized that hand jive!
What a charming group of fellows.
quite
I come back to this again and again... mainly for the music
This cartoon is almost 90 years old, and it's weirdly compelling and has a catchy song. Swing, you sinner!Swing!
A few items about this cartoon- The music used- When the cop chases Bimbo, you hear "Big Boot Dance" from William Henry Myddleton's 1901 composition DOWN SOUTH (An American Sketch). And when the lock eats the key and the tombstones start singing, you're listening to part of Rube Bloom's 1929 concert piece SONG OF THE BAYOU. (When the tombstones sing, "Goodbye, this is your finish", Bloom's lyrics were "Oh Lord, please take away the darkness, Oh Lord, please take away the rain...") And the rest of the cartoon parodies hit song "Sing You Sinners", a pseudo-spiritual from a long forgotten 1930 Paramount Pictures musical HONEY. About the animation- Shamus Culhane said that at the time the studio was about to start SWING YOU SINNERS, a bunch of the Fleischer's best animators broke their contracts and headed for the West Coast and Hollywood. In desperation, Dave Fleischer promoted a group of assistants and in-betweeners to animators, Culhane among them, who with Grim Natwicks guidence animated the cartoon. I've been able to identify some of the animators in SWING YOU SINNERS- Open scenes where Bimbo fights the chicken are by Grim Natwick. The cop chase is Willard Bowsky. The key eating gate and singing tombstones are Seymour Kneitel. The singing grave and the jewish ghost are Al Eugster. Bimbo stuck in the dirt and confronted with his sins are Shamus Culhane. First scenes in the haunted barn up to the scatting chicken spook, Rudolph Eggman. Scatting chicken spook, Shamus Culhane. The barn chasing Bimbo and pursuing hobgoblins, Grim Natwick. Long line of ghosts following BImbo, Rudolph Eggman. And Bimbo eaten by the skull, Grim Natwick. The rest of the animators are a guess. So far, nobody has been able to idenify the group singing and playing on the soundtrack. Some sources claim the soundtrack was a phonograph record Lou Fleischer bought at a music store. The Fleischers did use phonograph records as soundtracks- Talkartoons HOT DOG and WISE FLIES are two examples, along with BETTY BOOP M.D. But if this is true, no collector has yet found a copy of that record, so for the time being the SWING YOU SINNERS soundtrack is a mystery. And for cripes sake, people, you don't need to be stoned or drunk to use your imagination. When FANTASIA re re-released in 1970, the guys who animated on it were beseiged by eager hippies demanding to know what drugs they took while they were working on the film. Art Babbitt got so fed up being asked that question, he would reply "Yeah I was on drugs- Pepto Bismo and Ex Lax!"
Fleischer studios in New York were above a jazz hall - it would be easy for them to talk a minor band into performing for a cartoon.
@@jaywalker7363 I think so. These are special lyrics for ‘Sing, you Sinners!” that appear nowhere else. So they must have written them, then did as you say.
@@HooDatDonDar You have said that junior animators were pressed into service because of walkouts - maybe they also had some fun by forming an impromptu jazz band.
Ah the 1930s, when doctors prescribed Heroin for a mild cough....
Cómo lo decía XD
He wasn't punished simply for stealing chickens. Bimbo (the dog character) was a known troublemaker in Fleischer cartoons - viewers understood his in the time.
Right before the frog guy pops up, you can make out "You're at the end of your rope, so just give up hope, swing you sinners!"
The ghost with the noose is saying "Brotha yo sure gonna get yo face lifted!"
The first ghost that appears says "You'll never rob another hen house." and the mound of dirt next to him says "You've sinned and now you must ordain."
When he enters the barn I can make out "Stand up you sinner! We got you at last!"
I wish I could tell more, but I'm mostly at a loss myself
4:26 why this tree sound like homer simpson
It is Homer Simpson
Wow
T B LMAO
Alex Bennet Dan Castellananta wasn’t alive I think
MILKSHAKES YOU USED TO STEAL
Why the hell isn't there a Fleischer Studios Soundtrack!??!!
Exactly Dx
Ya. And there's some pretty awesome South Park music also - the song of the Underwear Gnomes for example.
MasterofPuberty Exactly! There are so many good songs out there and they aren't on a soundtrack
Well TBF a lot of the songs in Betty boop were already famous jazz songs, it might not be exact to the Betty boop version, but just an FYI
Brian O'Sullivan
Well... That's kinda random...
Happy 10th anniversary of this video on RUclips, thanks for posting
Woah, 10 years. That feels weird.
For some reason I actually really like this song... It's eerily uplifting.
For the past 5 years, I watch this every Halloween. Rocky Horror, Texas chainsaw, The Thing (1984 version), and this!
That's a solid lineup
Pretty good setup you got.
2:07 Banjo Kazooie
kkkkkkk
5:14 Conker's Bad Fur Day
ΛDI 7:28 who licks their own thumbs that's weird
And the Graveyard from mad monster manssion
coming to smash!
So far I managed to decipher the following lines (uncertanties are in *bold* or between asterisks, depending on YT formatting quirks). Any suggestions are strongly encouraged!
.
Good night, this is your *(visit?)* from us.
You’ll never learn to get away.
“Oh no!”
“Oh yes!”
You’ll never rob another hen-house!
You’ve sinned, and now you must ordain.
“Oh no.”
“Oh yes.”
*(We're gonna rise you),* brother.
Ya needed it.
*(You get to / Too scared to?)* [haul your bones away?].
.
Chickens you used to steal-
I don’t steal no more!
Craps you used to shoot-
I don’t shoot no more!
Girls you used to chase-
I don’t chase no more.
Get ready, brother, your time has come!
.
Stand up you sinner,
We’ve got you at last.
You can’t get away, there’s no time to pray,
Your finish is going to be fast.
Brothers and sisters,
Come on get hot.
We’ll amputate your *[bottom, yo?]*,
And tie your bones in a knot.
.
- Brother, you sure are gonna get your face lifted!
- And a permanent shave!
- Where you want your body *[set/sent]*?
- Body? Huh! Ain’t gonna be no body!
.
You can’t take any excuse,
*(Oh you've spoiled your roots, / Ballroom coiled you loose?)*
*(Shall we take up?)* the noose?
Swing you sinners!
.
We’ll make your chicken *[elope?]*,
You’re at the end of your rope,
So just give up *(a?)* hope,
Swing you sinners!
.
We’ll stretch you like a giraffe,
Maybe cut you in half,
Just to give us a laugh,
Swing you sinners!
I think the first line is "this is your finish, brother".
Cartoons were very spiritual along time ago, almost like they were made for adults instead of children this cartoon and the initiation of bimbo were saying sooooo much
I'd love to hear your analysis of this one, bimbos initiation is fairly clear to me(I think) and quite terrifying, what do you make of them?
They were made for adults, it was made during one of the most trying times of the 1900s, people needed a quick laugh and a distraction from everything going on in the world
I love it when the ghouls laugh at their own jokes. Each "HA!" feels like another nail is being hammered into your coffin.
Yeah me too 😂
The "Ya needed it?" guy seems like he'd be a prime candidate for a meme.
Is he a caricature of anyone?
Harvey Rothman Seems to me, based on his voice and general appearance, he's a caricature of a Jew. I could be wrong, though, but it seems to point in that direction.
Paul Bacaj Funny because that is exactly who Matt Stone and Trey Parker modeled Gerald Broflosky after in South Park
+Harvey Rothman His name was Monroe Silver, he was a Yiddish comedian 100 years ago. He is on youtube doing That's Yiddisha Love and other sketches
It's up there with "Wanna be a member? Wanna be a member?" and the Frog with LSD for Blood
I don't know what this'll say about my own sanity... BUT THAT WAS THE GREATEST CARTOON I'VE EVER SEEN!!!!
Deepdarkbasement I AGREE
@@ThewritingelfI agree
This is an amazing cartoon. The Fleischers were the masters of animated surrealism in the early 30s.
Well, now we know where Cuphead gets its ideas from.
yeah thats acually true
3:28 for Cagney Carnation.
:)
Never expected to find a rotmg dev here lol
@@elliotglaser1718 NOOO, THIS CANNOT BE!
7:33 dat frog...
Literally me!
It's Croaks from the nightclub with flies!
Lol!
5:30 dat chicken...
That frog is one of the weirdest things i've seen on the internet.
What a great cartoon! I love all the creepy ghost and skeleton cartoons from this era, like Skeleton Dance and Mickey Mouse & the Mad Doctor. This one really stands apart for the wild imagery, you actually feel like you're going crazy yourself by the time the scatting frog shows up.
If anyone is wondering what's up with the "Jewish Ghost" at 3:27, it's a cartoon of Monroe Silver, a well known 1920's dialect comedian famous for 78rpm records such as "Cohen Phones to His Friend Levy", "Cohen Takes His Friend to the Opera" and others. He had a catch phrase, "Vot are you do-ink?"
3:28
YAH NEEDED IT
Cagney Carnation
3:31 there.. now that’s better
3:28 c'mon cagney. that ghost costume wont fool me.
Mackenzie Thurman If you remove the facial hair and change the nose a bit. IT LOOKS JUST LIKE CAGNEY!!!!!!
So that's why Chad & Jared mentioned this cartoon? 3:27 says it all. I wish Popeye wasn't the only Fleischer Studio cartoon I had the chance to watch when I was a kid in the 90s. Oh, well.
The ending surprised me. I imagine that in the time this was made, it was very frightening.
Those ghosts and tombstones have such pleasant voices.
They has beautiful singing voices
First time I watched this, I had it on mute. I'd expected the music to.be very somber. The music makes it seems less sad; just a little bit though. And I was expecting the skull thing to be slow and dramatic. When it ate.him all abruptly and unexpectedly, it took me a minute to process it, then go "...Holy.crap."
That's why I'm never gonna steal a chicken.
1930s cartoons: Wholesome animals singing and dancing, wacky antics, smiles...
Also 1930s cartoons: 2:32
Fabuloso,es muy vanguardista .Se guarda como tesoro
The frog rubbing himself and scatting uncontrollably really made this whole nightmare worthwhile.
I seen a lot of fliescher cartoons with scary ghosts before, and this one is the best. In most any cartoon they they make their scary faces, their howls, dances, and fly around. But when one's chasing you around and slashing a razor at you; thats a mean ghost.
who else thinks fleischer is better than disney
me
Oshi Barkclimb fleischer all the way
Everyone with an IQ above 130.
Fleischer Studios = Upgrade
Walt Disney Animation Studios = Get The Fuck Out
Fliescher
Myself I always think the Fleischer Brothers animation from the 1930s always had their own idiosyncrasies and little personal touches which I've always loved and were far more surreal and bizarre and had a twisted humor unlike say the Disney films which were coming out at the same time.
Bimbo's "The Walking Dead" adventure.
Lol I agree
Gerald Markowitz me too
The cartoons from that time that people remember, you know how they were trying to make you feel and what they were going for- Little Lulu wants you to laugh. I have no idea what Bimbo is supposed to do or how I should feel. Bimbo simply is.
Bimbo is most likely supposed to make you feel uneasy. It may just be about how Bimbo went to Hell for sinning several times, including a deadly sin.
6:58 Fun fact: That was considered as a Cuphead boss
lol
Dawson Craig the Phantom Express?
memester 1 The cake castle that chases you.
Cake castle
Incoming Cuphead fans
Ice That game rules. King Dice is the man.
Ice I honestly doubt it. Awesome animation, a 3 hour orchestrated soundtrack. I think it'll stick.
But if its fanbase turns out ANYTHING like Undertale's...
Ice Not easily though. That boss is harder than the Devil himself.
lol
Ice Not by its fans
thatonedrewguy Why should we even care if it has a bad fanbase? Just enjoy the game or don't. I still like Undertale, and barely even notice the fanbase - and I do notice isn't even the worst of it, from what I've heard. Just focus on whether you like the game or not.
It makes a little more sense when you think about the context (this cartoon was made in the Great Depression). If you stole someone's chickens, that could mean causing them to starve. Also, if you went out for a night of gambling and came back with very little, you and your family would be in big trouble.
The times that I've viewed this single video is in the double digits. XD
Since i was i kid i always felt some kind of fear about this kind of cartoon, but some weird fear, the same sensation i had by staring at some Dali paintings: A crazy neverending land, filled with weird faces, a place where the habitants always smiled and danced and they would stare at you, and even if that looked like a party you couldn't feel less happy. Instead you felt scared but there is no way out, because there, the world just dont have and end.
Why are people here just to talk about Cagney carnations idle? Why can’t people be here to just watch the video and enjoy it?!?!
David Lee Roth wrote the song " Sinners Swing ", after watching this cartoon on tv while writing lyrics for the Van Halen supersmash hit masterpiece album, " Fair Warning ", way back in 1981. History for all the wrong reasons. Trippy old cartoon
Okay, this cartoon has nothing to do with drugs or a bad trip. This cartoon is about Bimbo( the dog in case you hadn't a clue) and how he was to be punished for his life of crime. He ran from the cop and eventually got locked inside the cemetery, where a legion of shrewd ghosts united to not only terrorize him for his life of crime and debauchery, but at some point to send him to hell for his sins.
The creator of this, Fleischer Studios, was creative, and was attempting to teach children a lesson. Life is about choices, if you choose to do the wrong thing instead of the right, you shall pay for it.
People should really stop assuming everything creative is about drugs. That's far from the truth. Don't come and preach that this animation is about drugs when you haven't a clue whether it's true or not. Because it's not. I'm also not Christian or Catholic so I'm not preaching about the lord, I'm just simply telling you what the cartoon was about.
Thank you, for your time. Have a marvelous day!
It was also made during the great depression, when crimes like stealing chickens would be seen as far worse than it would be today
Good ol' days huh, grandpa?
this but unironically
*huh, MDHR?
I just realized that it's not "Swing you, sinners!" like they're using swing as a curse word, oh no, it's "Swing, you sinners!" as though they'll hang them for stealing some chickens. 1930's were harsh, man! Going to hell for chickens!
No, it’s swing as in ‘play that music’
Whenever there’s music
The devil kicks
He don’t allow music
Down his river Styx
Gospel music, of course. You need to get saved.
Too late for bimbo, tho.
Anyone who thinks that cartoons were always for kids should watch this first. Not only is it surreal, it's pretty friggen morbid, too.
And the animation is very well done, too.
That was more unnerving than most modern horror.
The comical toon horror Is actually well done, psychedelic, but damn the eternal torment Is a terrible belief, i can't think about that even as a joke.
P.S. aren't some ghosts stereotypical?
I don't think so. They look like ghosts not people
One of these ghosts looked like a Jewish stereotype, but Max and Dave were Jewish so they knew what they were doing
No LSD possible, but I think cocaine was involved. The scat-singing frog near the end rubs his hands all over himself - I have heard a crawling sensation on the skin can be caused by over-use of the drug, and the rubbing tries to relieve it. Also, several other Fleischer cartoons reference cocaine use. This may well be the source of some of this trippy imagery.
Wild and imaginative, but grim without let-up. No getting away, no hiding under the covers, no waking up and it's all a dream, he's just ****ed.
Damn.
I remember these early cartoons when I was a kid.
Gave me nightmares.
Prolly have me some tonight!
The ending is pretty brutal, even for a Fleischer cartoon.
This is such an amazing cartoon. I love the surrealism in the Fleischer cartoons of the period.
3:28 Cagney's dance origin
I figured out the bit at the beginning, it's fairly close to the standard version:
You sinners, drop everything
Let that harmony ring
Up to Heaven and sing
Swing, you sinners
Just wave your arms all about
Let the Lord hear you shout
Pour that music right out
Swing, you sinners
Whenever there's music
The Devil kicks
He don't allow music
By the river Styx
You're wicked and you're depraved
And you've all misbehaved
If you wanna be saved
Swing, you sinners
0:01
Imagine if entire generations were brought up on this kind of cartoons on saturday mornings.
The animation is surreal, crazy and creepy
3:30 hey it’s that one guy from cuphead lol
lol
SmolToxin Cagney Carnation AKA The Flower
Three different parts of this influenced Cuphead, actually. The part with the house chasing after Bimbo was the inspiration for the part where that cake castle chased after Cuphead. Also the first ghost on the ghost train was influenced by the ghost at 3:01, particularly the hands.
That’s why I’m here lol
The second head that pops out of the house also inspired the blaze brothers i believe
Shmorky must have watched this, there's so many borrowed elements, it's awesome!
Thanks,Cracked.You just gave me some serious nightmares just because of this video.
That's what you get for trying to steal and/or fight a chicken.
I have a very bad feeling I have an interpretation that makes sense of this, and makes it even darker, if you can believe that.
Well? What is it?
^^^
Do tell.
I DEMAND TO KNOW.
haha its been a year and hes still writing his interpretation, its deep as fuck.
This has to be one of the most interesting cartoons I have ever seen!!
I dunno what it is about cartoons from around this time but i enjoy them so god damn much and like i can't figure out why😂
I can't wait for Cuphead to come out
3:27 When someone brings bad shoes to school
The concept of "cartoons" being a juvenile medium started to be generated after Disney defined the "family fantasy" market. His successes based on this added to the labeling of animation being a children's fantasy medium. But as we know, animation is as broad a medium as live action films are.
I swear that only the first four seconds are sane. Everything afterwards is nothing but a spree of hallucinogenic terror.
It IS a very interesting and well-done animated short I have to say but it's honestly one of the scariest films I've seen!
6:53 Cup head Reference: Phantom Express
memester 1 *inspiration
It's not a cup head reference this was made in 1930 cup head in 2017 #getyofactsstraight
and cake castle
This was probably made by the people of Skyrim.. If there's one thing that will get you killed, it's doing something with a chicken..
Nah, I'd say this is probably from Hyrule, this kinda batshit crazy stuff happens all the time there.
Thefourthdimensional Were'nt the chickens the ones who took vengeance in Legend of Zelda?
Collin Strassburg Precisely. Not just them though, Hyrule is a wonderful land where EVERYTHING is after your head.
Void it was made by the man who tried to take on Disney.
Max Fleischer
Yes, they did add stuff as they went along. Shamus Culhane writes in TALKING ANIMALS AND OTHER PEOPLE about how this cartoon got a stronger response than the Eddie Cantor feature it played with. Shamus animated the crazy stuff at the end.
6:15 --- Flaming hot Jazz! Fire! 🔥🚒🧯🔥
2:19- the insanity begins
Haha "You're gonna get your face lifted, and a permanent shave! HA. HA. HA."
Talkartoons - that is a Great name for these new fandangelled moving pictures with drawings. What a great idea.
3:27 Ah, now I know where Cagney Carnation got his moves from.
lol
A good 2nd feature to this would be Van Beuren's Panicky Pup. 1930
So, this is about a thief dog that is judged to be dead within a graveyard, submitted to enter into a mad mix of visions that torture him weighing on his conscience?
I have seen a lot of trippy-as-hell Fleisher cartoons. I'd never seen this one before. It wins the 'high octane nightmare fuel' Olympics NO CONTEST!
I found this from Caught a Ghost's video to their song "Time Go" .. the cartoon is really eerie put to the song. xD
the thirties were weird...
But cool
I think Tim Burton was already working in 1930...
I can't see Johnny Depp so I'm not sure...
Acho que quando criança assistisse isso, não dormia por anos!
Man, watching this at 3:40 in the night was a good idea. Now i will have sweet dreams