ok real talk this cartoon scared the shit out of me when I was little. I remember having a VHS of cartoons like this and his dream always scared me so much omg
Same here, it actually gave me a nightmare about a riding lawn mower that was chasing me around and whose controls vanished so that no one would be able to stop it. LOL
yup, important message tho. germany where i live has a lot of train traffic, and accidents involving kids, teens AND grownups being hit by trains, or getting to close to the overhead powerline are all too common 😔
@@Pablo-312 Gauges: Hello, brat! *laugh evilly* Play safe! Play safe! Hesitate! Train: I kidnapped you! *laughs evilly* Beware! Take care! Mountain: You little brat will die forever! *laughs evilly* Better play safe! Toddler: *screams* Rover, help me! I've been kidnapped on a train!
@@OzPoohProductions a kid bumps his head and has a dream of driving a train, the end of the dream is that he encounters another train and the boy wakes up and is saved by rover (the dog) from a train roaring down the tracks.
me too. When i was young i had a VHS set with hundreds of old Cartoons from the 30's and 40's (old Looney Toons, Old Superman cartoons, etc. This was one of the clips and i remember it being creepy. Lots of WW2 era stuff too. This video is interesting since it uses very strange animation part way through the short. I wonder if 5:39 was rotoscoped.
Same. I remember getting this on a VHS with a bunch of other max fletcher and old Casper the friendly ghost stuff. My mom let me buy it from one of those old discount bins at Walgreens back in the early 90’s. There was a lot of obscure, old cartoons in those bins. Basically public domain cartoons at this point
Just think about all the work that went into this 7 minute cartoon. the animations, the art, the facial expressions, everything meticulously drawn frame by frame by hand... the rotoscope scene, they had to build all that. then color it in an era where most everything was still in black and white... this must have literally took months to finish. Just amazing!
I remember this cartoon scaring the crap out of me as a kid. It actually caused me to have a nightmare about a riding lawn mower getting a mind of its own and trying to run over my sisters and me. Much like the train in the cartoon the controls disappeared so no one could stop it. The funny part about this is I had watched horror movies all the time and was just fine but what did give me a nightmare? A cartoon! Obviously, this cartoon was meant to scare kids into playing safely. Well, Max Fleisher, I don't recall it teaching me a lesson but you sure succeeded in scaring me when I was a kid. LOL
Same here, I must have been terrified by this as a small child because I have weird PTSD -like reactions to this. Especially the creepy faces on the locomotives and where the dog’s tail almost gets run over.
Believe it or not, the locomotive the boy lost control of is actually based off a real train that was in service in 1936 on the New York Central called the Mercury. That other locomotive I recently found out is the Union Pacific 49er 4-8-2. Please excuse me if that creeps anybody out that that train was a real train.
@@ericzerkle5214 i know almost nothing about American locomotives but it looks like you're right about it being a Hudson. I think the other guy was pointing out the wheel arrangement
That dog deserves an award for such a brave & heroic act. Though this cartoon did scare me when I was a kid (it was part of those old video tapes series). Heck, it made me scared of Thomas the Tank Engine (for a while).
Not for the first time in a vintage cartoon, I'm left wondering "Where is this kid's mom?!" Other than that, the first part had me smiling, as that was pretty well how I was as a kid, a loop of track set up somewhere and happy as a clam to play trains for hours. Unlike this little tot, I appreciated from a young age how dangerous trains could be (and knew full well my mom would've whipped me senseless), so I was content to just run to the fence and wave whenever a train went by, little overalls and big striped hat included, and it made my day whenever the engineer gave me a toot on the horn and waved back. Still nuts about trains, so I guess I'm still that little kid inside.
@@ZAV1944 Didn't see a caboose on that freight, so unless they're all crammed in the engine there might not have been a conductor and brakeman. Even if there were, little kids have a knack for not getting noticed by busy adults, so they might not have seen him or known anything about it until it was too late. Back when this was made in 1936, a lot of kids used to get killed picking spilled coal off the tracks to take home for heat and to cook with, the Depression was in full swing after all, and that's how a lot of families made ends meet. The railroads weren't exactly ignorant of the fact, as there were several batches of famous posters imploring people not to send the kids scrounging for coal on the tracks.
She’s drunk, her husband lost his job on Wall Street a few years prior due to the Great Depression, but they were able to scrape enough together to buy a house in her parents’ hometown. It wasn’t much, as they live next to the railroad tracks, but the kid doesn’t seem to mind. There’s some head canon.
Believe it or not kids used to play in the yard 'unsupervised' while their mothers did housework - otherwise the housework would never have gotten done. They always knew what we had been up to when we came in that evening and we never got into much mischief. We would have gotten serious consequences if we had.
Good modeling and rotoscope work on the mountain scene. Those locomotives are creepy as hell when their front ends turn into faces and the green one lets loose with that scream. Part of me thinks that this cartoon put some sort of subliminal fear into my head when I was little, because I was afraid of trains and railroad tracks until I was about 8 years old.
I was born in 1992, I watched this cartoon when I was 3 year old. And finally, I remember it again and I come here just to take some lost memory. Today is 26.02.2023 Thank for the clip, it made my day !
@@AlexTrain5249 Gauges: Hello, brat! *laugh evilly* Play safe! Play safe! Hesitate! Train: I kidnapped you! *laughs evilly* Beware! Take care! Mountain: You little brat will die forever! *laughs evilly* Better play safe!
Ironically, after learning the core message to "play safe" when I was maybe 5, this was also the video that got me into my lifelong love of steam engines. lol
I remember seeing this as a kid in the early 2000s. My mom had a vhs tape that had old cartoons on it that she used to put on for me and this was one of the cartoons that were in that tape. Don’t know how I remember seeing this because I believe I was 3 years old at the time
Who else came here because they remembered this from their Childhood? Maybe We are decades and countries apart, but this clip, wich scared the shit out of us when we were little, brings all of us together. Crazy. Im a Chechen wich saw this in Austria in the late 2000‘s. Now im 21. life is strange, huh?
They actually were refrencing a diffirent train seen in a Popeye cartoon, the one in the Popeye cartoon is identical to the Cuphead one. However, you aren't wrong about there being a Play Safe refrence in Cuphead, the Phantom Express shares the same number as the train that almost hits the kid at the end.
Actually during the big depression, when hobos "riding the rails" were a big problem and railroads employed as a countermeasure guards known to be violent if they caught a hobo or even anyone marauding on a train yard "with no business to be there" as they used to say; they were many cases, actually documented, of children under 16 hitchhiking on cargo trains alone (mostly teens in this case) or in the company of adults, which in the later case may include a marauding father or uncle looking for work who didn't want his kid ending abandoned in an orphanage.
@@Sheriiblossom Yes. This one is pretty creepy. The train the kid drives, and the other red one with the head on collison at the end is very creepy looking.
@@OzPoohProductions uh... no they aren't. the kid was an idiot and had a bad dream after getting a concussion. its just his conscience scolding him for what he did.
Always wondered...why the hell would anyone build a house with a picket fence right next to a train track? I know there are some places where trains travel behind houses...but there's usually a pretty big wall blocking it. Maybe this was normal in the 30s?
I know this little kid was being careless and all that. He’s still just a kid and not fully developed. Most people I would blame are the parents for being negligent or not teaching their kids safety rules.
I watched this cartoon in Spanish and I loved it xD, especially the part when the cave says "¡ten cuidado!" I mean, I think that in English is terrifying, but it was completely different in Spanish.
How i can find this in spanish im traying to found spanish version of this video and i can't found it. Hablo español y está caricatura la vi cuando era una niña y ahora la busco en español y no la encuentro :(
Now that I realize the two locomotives look alike, the red one to an LMS Coronation Princess Class 6229 Duchess of Hamilton and the blue one to a C&O L1 Streamlined Hudson, an England against an American, what crazy do you think🤔😅🇺🇲🤜🤛🇬🇧🚂🚃🚃🚃.
I swear, both Max Fleischer and Walt Disney made some of the creepiest animations back in the 1930's and 40's! This particular cartoon short by the former was definitely no exception. Regarding the latter, the "evil forest" scene from Snow White also freaked me out a lot when I was a kid.
I'm shocked this hasn't been flagged as being for Kids. I mean, it has its obvious dark themes, as was early-to-mid 20th century cartoon tradition, but that didn't stop other classic cartoons from suffering that dreaded COPPA branding.
The implications of this cartoon is that there were many child deaths on train tracks at the time. Its essentially a 10 minute PSA and it doesnt pussyfoot a thing. Im 30 years old and this cartoon still scares the hell out of me and the former implications mentuomed makes it ten times scarier.
I hate how all the commenters are kids/young adults with nine tenths of their brains missing who only really watch this not because of its important message, but instead because “Ooh talking train! Perfect to include in my unoriginal video series done in bad cgi! *poops pants while having *** with a wolf*
I went to an old style attraction in my city that involves a lot of old trains, cars, planes etc on display. As a child I was TERRIFIED of the trains. They looked just like the creepy ones in this
I remember the locomotive talking and the gauges getting faces really really scared me when I was younger I am now a teen and I love this cartoon, also glad to see I’m not the only who got scared
I had this cartoon on an old VHS tape as a kid, and somehow it never gave me nightmares. Looking back on it now, I'm not sure why. I was the kind of kid who was easily freaked out by stuff most of the time, and yet I was more fascinated by this than scared. Crazy how that works.
They should have animate the two trains crashing to each other and blow up like in real life, but this is a kids cartoon so I don’t blame them for this decision.
This wasn’t really made for kids, it was made for whoever happened to be at the cinemas back in the day (most theater goers in 1936 were actually adults)
@@BlueCollaredK9 Gauges: Hello, brat! *laugh evilly* Play safe! Play safe! Hesitate! Train: I kidnapped you! *laughs evilly* Beware! Take care! Mountain: You little brat will die forever! *laughs evilly* Better play safe!
4:50 how did he get the engine working? The fire is off, the dampers off, hell he's not even shoveling coal for God sake!? Did the engine's crew just leave the fire on? Thats gonna build pressure in the boiler and explode.
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ok real talk this cartoon scared the shit out of me when I was little. I remember having a VHS of cartoons like this and his dream always scared me so much omg
Same here, it actually gave me a nightmare about a riding lawn mower that was chasing me around and whose controls vanished so that no one would be able to stop it. LOL
Same. Legit haunted me as a kid, wanted the dog just to leave the shitty kid to die, tbh
same
yup, important message tho. germany where i live has a lot of train traffic, and accidents involving kids, teens AND grownups being hit by trains, or getting to close to the overhead powerline are all too common 😔
@@davetheelasticgoose4838 it was very tragic
Finally, a version with comments.
Stupid RUclips needs to allow comments on all videos.
I agree with you.
@@Pablo-312 Gauges: Hello, brat! *laugh evilly* Play safe! Play safe! Hesitate!
Train: I kidnapped you! *laughs evilly* Beware! Take care!
Mountain: You little brat will die forever! *laughs evilly* Better play safe!
Toddler: *screams* Rover, help me! I've been kidnapped on a train!
@@Pablo-312 What's happening in the story of Play Safe (1936)?
@@spingleboygle gotta learn them sometime.
@@OzPoohProductions a kid bumps his head and has a dream of driving a train, the end of the dream is that he encounters another train and the boy wakes up and is saved by rover (the dog) from a train roaring down the tracks.
I watched this as a kid in the 90s and have been trying to remember its name ever since... what a weird ass and scary thing this was back then
me too. When i was young i had a VHS set with hundreds of old Cartoons from the 30's and 40's (old Looney Toons, Old Superman cartoons, etc. This was one of the clips and i remember it being creepy. Lots of WW2 era stuff too.
This video is interesting since it uses very strange animation part way through the short. I wonder if 5:39 was rotoscoped.
I share the same sentiment.
Same. I remember getting this on a VHS with a bunch of other max fletcher and old Casper the friendly ghost stuff. My mom let me buy it from one of those old discount bins at Walgreens back in the early 90’s. There was a lot of obscure, old cartoons in those bins. Basically public domain cartoons at this point
Yeah fleischer's cartoons are known for being weird and dark
Just think about all the work that went into this 7 minute cartoon. the animations, the art, the facial expressions, everything meticulously drawn frame by frame by hand... the rotoscope scene, they had to build all that. then color it in an era where most everything was still in black and white... this must have literally took months to finish. Just amazing!
Yup. Most people in the comments watching this are probably too high on prescription medication to even make that realization.
i like your profile logo@@Misterlongblueandhandsome
I remember this cartoon scaring the crap out of me as a kid. It actually caused me to have a nightmare about a riding lawn mower getting a mind of its own and trying to run over my sisters and me. Much like the train in the cartoon the controls disappeared so no one could stop it. The funny part about this is I had watched horror movies all the time and was just fine but what did give me a nightmare? A cartoon! Obviously, this cartoon was meant to scare kids into playing safely. Well, Max Fleisher, I don't recall it teaching me a lesson but you sure succeeded in scaring me when I was a kid. LOL
The streamline locomotives, the gauges on the train, and the mountains are villains!
That's what thomas and friends basically are doing now.
Same here, I must have been terrified by this as a small child because I have weird PTSD -like reactions to this. Especially the creepy faces on the locomotives and where the dog’s tail almost gets run over.
Wait, that lawnmower dream.
Reminds me of that Simpsons Halloween episode where Willie is Freddy Krueger.
Dude, me too. I still get the chills watching it.
Believe it or not, the locomotive the boy lost control of is actually based off a real train that was in service in 1936 on the New York Central called the Mercury. That other locomotive I recently found out is the Union Pacific 49er 4-8-2. Please excuse me if that creeps anybody out that that train was a real train.
Not creeped out at all. The freight loco towards the end looks like a Hudson..
@@ericzerkle5214 It's a Pacific (4-6-2).
@@AlexTrain5249 well whatever. I'm not a steam locomotive expert.
@@ericzerkle5214 i know almost nothing about American locomotives but it looks like you're right about it being a Hudson. I think the other guy was pointing out the wheel arrangement
@@LHoriginal I'm no expert either.
Did anyone else born around 1993 have a random assortment of 1930s cartoons on a vhs including this one???
I did that’s where I saw Play Safe Cartoon Short when I was a youngster!
My grandma recorded this for me
I was a kid in the 90s and watched these all the time! I inherited the VHS tape and still have it 😁
Included on a Cartoon Favorites video compilation, the Spirit of 43: Donald Duck and Friends.
Me
Let's this be a strict but perfect lesson to the kid, because trains are powerful vehicles and are fast enough to hit a person.
And even if a train brakes while moving fast, they usually only actually stop after one mile
Not just hit, splatter.
Also water is wet.
And a Speeding locomotive has no mind of it's own and no conscience, it cares not for what is in it's path.
And kinda turn them into ground beef
The layers, the models, the soundtrack, the cell animation combined make this one so fascinating.
That dog deserves an award for such a brave & heroic act.
Though this cartoon did scare me when I was a kid (it was part of those old video tapes series). Heck, it made me scared of Thomas the Tank Engine (for a while).
Imagine a Mr. Pickles take on this.
6:48 is my favorite part
You should be scared of Thomas the spider lol
The dog ran faster than a 4-6-2 steam locomotive to rescue the kid.
@@ARandomUser12 The 4-6-2 locomotive's name is Montana.
This was a fever dream locked in my subconscious for literal decades until now.
Not for the first time in a vintage cartoon, I'm left wondering "Where is this kid's mom?!"
Other than that, the first part had me smiling, as that was pretty well how I was as a kid, a loop of track set up somewhere and happy as a clam to play trains for hours. Unlike this little tot, I appreciated from a young age how dangerous trains could be (and knew full well my mom would've whipped me senseless), so I was content to just run to the fence and wave whenever a train went by, little overalls and big striped hat included, and it made my day whenever the engineer gave me a toot on the horn and waved back.
Still nuts about trains, so I guess I'm still that little kid inside.
More then likely the Conductor and Brakeman would have told the kid off.
@@ZAV1944
Didn't see a caboose on that freight, so unless they're all crammed in the engine there might not have been a conductor and brakeman. Even if there were, little kids have a knack for not getting noticed by busy adults, so they might not have seen him or known anything about it until it was too late.
Back when this was made in 1936, a lot of kids used to get killed picking spilled coal off the tracks to take home for heat and to cook with, the Depression was in full swing after all, and that's how a lot of families made ends meet. The railroads weren't exactly ignorant of the fact, as there were several batches of famous posters imploring people not to send the kids scrounging for coal on the tracks.
She’s drunk, her husband lost his job on Wall Street a few years prior due to the Great Depression, but they were able to scrape enough together to buy a house in her parents’ hometown.
It wasn’t much, as they live next to the railroad tracks, but the kid doesn’t seem to mind.
There’s some head canon.
Well Betty Boop actually his mother I saw it in google
Believe it or not kids used to play in the yard 'unsupervised' while their mothers did housework - otherwise the housework would never have gotten done. They always knew what we had been up to when we came in that evening and we never got into much mischief. We would have gotten serious consequences if we had.
This cartoon is older than my grandmother and the animation is still much better than any flash animated series created in the past 15 years.
Dude I watched this 6 years ago, and I came back, pure nostalgia
Good modeling and rotoscope work on the mountain scene. Those locomotives are creepy as hell when their front ends turn into faces and the green one lets loose with that scream. Part of me thinks that this cartoon put some sort of subliminal fear into my head when I was little, because I was afraid of trains and railroad tracks until I was about 8 years old.
The streamlined locomotives, the gauges on the train, and the mountains are villains!
@@OzPoohProductions shut up
@@Ilkvomit Drat!
@@OzPoohProductions lol 10 months ago dude.Let it go
@@Ilkvomit That's . . . not . . . very . . . nice! *sobs loudly*
I was born in 1992, I watched this cartoon when I was 3 year old.
And finally, I remember it again and I come here just to take some lost memory. Today is 26.02.2023
Thank for the clip, it made my day !
Might not want to say your age there
Lucyfire7 I was born in 2016
@@Thepurpleofthecool don't say her birth
6:49 oh so THAT’S where Cuphead got the number for the Phantom Express....
That was the intention (to be based off of the Fleischer/early Disney cartoons).
@@AlexTrain5249 Gauges: Hello, brat! *laugh evilly* Play safe! Play safe! Hesitate!
Train: I kidnapped you! *laughs evilly* Beware! Take care!
Mountain: You little brat will die forever! *laughs evilly* Better play safe!
@Mr. Will or is it both
NIIIIICE CATCH!!
6:05 that blue train’s screech used to scare the hell out of me.
Blue Train is Montana.
@@julyleonard5:31 I loved his line
BEWARE! TAKE CARE!
@@ryanward652 That's what Montana said.
@@julyleonard Heck I remembered him in Casey Jr and Friends
*Ä*
Ironically, after learning the core message to "play safe" when I was maybe 5, this was also the video that got me into my lifelong love of steam engines. lol
Same.
Is anyone else wondering where the model train from 5:36 is at now?
Well it’s here on earth and I NEED TO HAVE IT
That dog ran as fast as a train, even faster. Respect for that dog
The nostalgia is so real!😊
I remember seeing this as a kid in the early 2000s. My mom had a vhs tape that had old cartoons on it that she used to put on for me and this was one of the cartoons that were in that tape. Don’t know how I remember seeing this because I believe I was 3 years old at the time
Play safe really did it job at the cost of giving children nightmares.
Right??! 😭
We now know more about psychology than we did in the 30s we thought the only way to get kids to play safe to traumatize them
Who else came here because they remembered this from their Childhood?
Maybe We are decades and countries apart, but this clip, wich scared the shit out of us when we were little, brings all of us together.
Crazy. Im a Chechen wich saw this in Austria in the late 2000‘s. Now im 21. life is strange, huh?
After so long I finally found this old classic 😭
Yes! I literally spent years searching for things like "red train racing blue train cartoon"
@@Cody_Buck exactly! And there’s others I’m looking for too I just wished I could remember the proper episode names lol
Cuphead season 2 referenced this. Totally awesome.
They actually were refrencing a diffirent train seen in a Popeye cartoon, the one in the Popeye cartoon is identical to the Cuphead one. However, you aren't wrong about there being a Play Safe refrence in Cuphead, the Phantom Express shares the same number as the train that almost hits the kid at the end.
Those backgrounds though.
Actually during the big depression, when hobos "riding the rails" were a big problem and railroads employed as a countermeasure guards known to be violent if they caught a hobo or even anyone marauding on a train yard "with no business to be there" as they used to say; they were many cases, actually documented, of children under 16 hitchhiking on cargo trains alone (mostly teens in this case) or in the company of adults, which in the later case may include a marauding father or uncle looking for work who didn't want his kid ending abandoned in an orphanage.
Railroad Employees generally regarded the 'boes with contempt, they were after all trespassing on railroad property.
My four year old nephew LOVES this cartoon!
The streamline locomotives, the gauges on the train, and the mountains are villains!
how
@@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory ...are you asking how a 4 year old enjoys a cartoon? Just want to make this make sense.
@@Sheriiblossom Yes. This one is pretty creepy. The train the kid drives, and the other red one with the head on collison at the end is very creepy looking.
and this one 4:14
All the adults commenting how cool and smart this is.. never had the displeasure of being traumatized by it as a child 🥴
5:31 Montana: BEWARE! TAKE CARE!
Goofy ahh face on the train💀
Montana: AAAAH!
Dakota: AAAAH!
Montana & Dakota: AAAAAHHHH!
6:36 “and this is how i met your mother”
6:05 and 6:36 were the parts that got me as a kid. 😖
3:23. Look at that. Looks like one of the painters or animators forgot that the train left
The blue engine, the gauges, the crocket tunnel mouth, and the red engine are villains.
@@OzPoohProductions uh... no they aren't. the kid was an idiot and had a bad dream after getting a concussion. its just his conscience scolding him for what he did.
stop spreading false info
@@BlueCollaredK9 Blue Train: *laughs evilly*
Toddler: *screams*
@@OzPoohProductions you just contradicted yourself from another comments section moron...
4:03 Man, this effect was just beautiful. Really sucks that it died off after this era, with its only resurgence being in Cuphead AFAIK.
That part still makes me feel uneasy 30 years later and I don't know why.
This cartoon scared the crap out of me when I first saw it as a kid
This video is why I have anxiety as an adult
Everybody thinks they have anxiety and everybody loves to point it out 😒
@lackwanna livery productions nah
1936: creates cartoon about train safety
76 years later: Duuuummmb ways to diiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeee
Always wondered...why the hell would anyone build a house with a picket fence right next to a train track? I know there are some places where trains travel behind houses...but there's usually a pretty big wall blocking it.
Maybe this was normal in the 30s?
You've got both versions available. Be sure to always check...
I know this little kid was being careless and all that. He’s still just a kid and not fully developed. Most people I would blame are the parents for being negligent or not teaching their kids safety rules.
But I'm mighty glad it's just a nightmare to teach us lesson the dog saves him from being run over by real one and licks him a happy ending
Imagine that in the other train was a friend of the boy. They dreamed the same dream and are suprised when they find out that they had the same dream.
That's a great theory
I remember seeing this as a kid and then years later seeing it playing in the background of an episode of MacGyver
4:57 4014’s second driver set be like:
Fun fact some scenes use real models in the background
I remember my mom showing this to me before because i loved trains and those trains scared the hell out of me.
I like very much the music and the sounds in 6:00
I watched this cartoon in Spanish and I loved it xD, especially the part when the cave says "¡ten cuidado!" I mean, I think that in English is terrifying, but it was completely different in Spanish.
How i can find this in spanish im traying to found spanish version of this video and i can't found it.
Hablo español y está caricatura la vi cuando era una niña y ahora la busco en español y no la encuentro :(
Now that I realize the two locomotives look alike, the red one to an LMS Coronation Princess Class 6229 Duchess of Hamilton and the blue one to a C&O L1 Streamlined Hudson, an England against an American, what crazy do you think🤔😅🇺🇲🤜🤛🇬🇧🚂🚃🚃🚃.
6:45 watch out for the train!!!
I came here from a guy named TonyPilot.
The engine that little boy was driving. He was named Montana by that guy for his Casey Jr. And Friends series.
The streamline locomotives, the gauges on the train, and the mountains are villains!
Lol
Who wanna know who the red guys called?
@@OzPoohProductions how is Montana a villain? he was telling just the kid to be play safe.
@@DolgochProductions Uh, he's the blue streamliner that the kid has been trapped.
6:05 Montana tries to warn his cousin the red train
I swear, both Max Fleischer and Walt Disney made some of the creepiest animations back in the 1930's and 40's! This particular cartoon short by the former was definitely no exception. Regarding the latter, the "evil forest" scene from Snow White also freaked me out a lot when I was a kid.
I'm shocked this hasn't been flagged as being for Kids.
I mean, it has its obvious dark themes, as was early-to-mid 20th century cartoon tradition, but that didn't stop other classic cartoons from suffering that dreaded COPPA branding.
this cartoon almost gave me a fear of steam locomotives when I was like 6 or 7
I only saw it for the first time yesterday. Thomas and friends did most of the heavy lifting in terms of teaching
Same
The implications of this cartoon is that there were many child deaths on train tracks at the time. Its essentially a 10 minute PSA and it doesnt pussyfoot a thing. Im 30 years old and this cartoon still scares the hell out of me and the former implications mentuomed makes it ten times scarier.
I hope this movie saved lives back then! I watched this as a kid and was creeped out but now it's pure nostalgia
I hate how all the commenters are kids/young adults with nine tenths of their brains missing who only really watch this not because of its important message, but instead because “Ooh talking train! Perfect to include in my unoriginal video series done in bad cgi! *poops pants while having *** with a wolf*
Some phenomenal animation here. Just incredible. I love animation and this raily amazed me. Oh, I like puns too. ;-)
4:57 the class a4 mallard breaking the record of fastest steam train ever be like
4:15 that’s a creepy Looking new Jersey blue comet
I live by the message in this video every day of my life.
I went to an old style attraction in my city that involves a lot of old trains, cars, planes etc on display. As a child I was TERRIFIED of the trains. They looked just like the creepy ones in this
6:13 who the hell is driving that red train?
Sense this whole scene with the faced trains i just a dream in the boys head, it doesn't really need to be driven by anyone
Btw if you're wondering what type of train that is, that is the lms duchess of hamilton😊
If you don't believe me look it up
POV: you had nightmares of trains with faces
I don't remember how I actually saw this, but it was on some VHS as a kid. Maybe the Little Engine That Could? But jeeeze it scared the crap out of me
Back during the peak of the streamline era!!!
Yes
I guess those streamline locomotives are exactly what I can only assume would become the inspiration for Connor and Caitlin on _Thomas and Friends_ .
@@inaciosthirdstudio The blue engine, the gauges, the crooket tunnel mouth, and the red engine are villains.
I don't think so. It was basically in the kid's dream.
@@inaciosthirdstudio Connor and Caitlin on Thomas and Friends
I used to love this cartoon as a kid but it also scared the SH*T out of me!
That cartoon scares me when I was a kid
i remember seeing this as a kid and i’m happy to find it now
I remember the locomotive talking and the gauges getting faces really really scared me when I was younger I am now a teen and I love this cartoon, also glad to see I’m not the only who got scared
Cuphead facing off against the Phantom Express, anybody?
The blue engine, the gauges, the crocket tunnel mouth, and the red engine are villains.
Came here from Shining Time Station. Never seen the full cartoon before. I like it. The red train screams like Homer Simpson! Lmao! 😆
Blue Train: *screams/whistles*
Red Train: *screams/whistles*
Scare Dares (1991)?
The blue engine’s scream sounds so inhuman, it’s disturbing.
@@OzPoohProductions Blue Train's name is Montana.
@@julyleonard Montana: How was I a villain when I kidnapped the toddler?
According to a DeviantArt post, I thought that the blue streamlined tender engine predicted Shooting Star Gordon from The Great Race!
When I was younger I found this on RUclips and would not stop watching I loved ot
I had this cartoon on an old VHS tape as a kid, and somehow it never gave me nightmares. Looking back on it now, I'm not sure why. I was the kind of kid who was easily freaked out by stuff most of the time, and yet I was more fascinated by this than scared. Crazy how that works.
And the red one is called redmond
I haven't seen this 1 in years since I was a kid:-)
They should have animate the two trains crashing to each other and blow up like in real life, but this is a kids cartoon so I don’t blame them for this decision.
This wasn’t really made for kids, it was made for whoever happened to be at the cinemas back in the day (most theater goers in 1936 were actually adults)
1:56 my brain when im in fifth grade but my friend tells me this joke and im up all night thinking of whats so funny about it
I remember this so much! This was after this Molly Moo Cow cartoon with Robinson Crusoe and 2 more called Chicken a la Carte and Trolley Ahoy. ❤❤
1:15 PRR K4 #1361 whistle
Phantom express from cuphead brought me here!
best boss of the game also took my train of thought here.
@@BlueCollaredK9 Gauges: Hello, brat! *laugh evilly* Play safe! Play safe! Hesitate!
Train: I kidnapped you! *laughs evilly* Beware! Take care!
Mountain: You little brat will die forever! *laughs evilly* Better play safe!
for me it was the sunshine express coach I was on going to and from the airport at Orlando during my Disney holiday last week
6:05 Montana 6:12 redmond screams
No offense, but heads up, Redmond is renamed Dakota now.
I saw this on Donald Presents as one of "The Fabulous Fleischer Folio" segments.
😂😂😂 I love these animations. Beautiful aesthetics.
4:50 how did he get the engine working? The fire is off, the dampers off, hell he's not even shoveling coal for God sake!? Did the engine's crew just leave the fire on? Thats gonna build pressure in the boiler and explode.
The engine's name is Montana.
6:43 the box car still there
The toddler leaves riding on the freight train.
Good cartoon. Better then the ones today
The streamlined locomotives, the gauges on the train, and the mountains are villains!
@Montana the Streamliner Sorry! I've said too much.
is it me? or the begining of the cartoon theme was the ballad of Casey Jones for few seconds
It is, basically the whole tune was, albeit with a bit of a swing twist courtesy of the studio band.
Glad im not the only one thay found this terrifying as a kid
Desenele acestea mi-au făcut copilăria mai frumoasă păcat că le-au scos de la tv
I've thought of this video for years. Thank you for uploading this. ❤
1:09 Green Goddess whistle
And that’s why you should play safe children
7:36 the moment the dog fuckt up
No the dog moved their tail off the track in time
@@adogeatingapieceofbread9335 i now se mi other coments 😆😅
This cartoon scared me so much but i couldn't stop watching it auuuuhg
A Certified 1930s cartoon train classic
Brings me back to my childhood!
It was made in 1936
I didn't know Paramount was around even at this time.
That's right.
Same with Warner Bros.
@@inaciosthirdstudio The streamlined locomotives, the gauges on the train, and the mountains are villains!
@@inaciosthirdstudio And Universal Too 😀.
Along with Columbia and MGM. I’m not too sure about Van Beuren.
6:36-6:38 When you see your crush for the first time.
@Montana the Streamliner hi there montana