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1:12 the cartoon
2:50 Betty packs up
3:49 Meetup with Bimbo
4:23 Steam walrus sings
7:11 Banshee scare
Minnie the Moocher (1932) is a Betty Boop cartoon produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures.
The cartoon opens with a live action sequence of Cab Calloway and his orchestra performing an instrumental rendition of "St. James Infirmary". Then Betty Boop gets into a fight with her strict, Yiddish speaking, Jewish parents, runs away from home with her boyfriend Bimbo, and sings excerpts of the Harry Von Tilzer song "They Always Pick on Me" (1911) and the song "Mean to Me" (1929).
Betty and Bimbo end up in a cave where a walrus, with Cab Calloway's voice, sings "Minnie the Moocher" and dances to the melancholy song. Calloway is joined in the performance by various ghosts, goblins, skeletons, and other frightening things. Betty and Bimbo are subjected to skeletons drinking at a bar; ghost prisoners sitting in electric chairs; a mother cat with empty eye-sockets feeding her equally empty-eyed kittens; and so on. Betty and Bimbo both change their minds about running away and rush back home with every ghost right behind them. Betty makes it safely back to her home and hides under the blankets of her bed. As she shakes in terror, the note she earlier wrote to her parents tears, leaving "Home Sweet Home" on it. The film ends with Calloway performing the instrumental "Vine Street Blues".
Idi-Nahui77
Membercartoons were dark as fuck holy shit
ImpidiDinkaDoo
Former StaffOld cartoons were dark, weird, and neat as hell
BlueDingo
MemberSo how long until we become a 1930's Netflix?
ImpidiDinkaDoo
Former StaffProbably not a super common occurrence; I seem to be the only one uploading public domain antro toons and I just upload the really artistically neat and/or revolutionary for the time ones every once in a while. Though someone else might go on an upload spree with them since a ton of early 1900s animation (like a shit ton of Felix the cat) went public domain recently
dracotay
BlockedHave you seen the Buggs Bunny vs. Hitler one?
Not dark, but just something you probably wouldn't see now a days.
dracotay
BlockedGot it to late to edit.
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Some old cartoons could be pretty racist too, not easy to find some of those.
Jinx Jackal
MemberWell Mickey Mouse and his famous excuse that got a bunch of older works pushed back about a good 20 years isnt gonna work no more it seems. He'll be public access too come 2024.
ImpidiDinkaDoo
Former StaffKnowing disney, they'll probably try to legally scramble into somehow pushing back public domain thresholds even further or something. Or at least attempt it anyways
PinkFurret
MemberYeah, Walt is a grade A cunt.
user 343382
MemberBESIDES ITS NOT DISNEY
ITS FLEITCHER
And also, theyre not dark, they were just for adult.
ALSO, it often political, sexual, and yes sometimes racist.
But its normal. (Rasism isnt of course lol) its like american dad or bowjack horseman but in the day.
and you can find all the private domain cartoon everywhere and nothing gets deleted tho, and yes, walt was an ass
user 343382
MemberNOTIFICATION : FBI, illuminati, MIB
Don't fucking move
PinkFurret
MemberSorry for confusing the 2, I'm not well versed in old cartoons.
SexyPlayWolf
MemberDo you have a website so I can check out these old cartoons
ImpidiDinkaDoo
Former StaffYou can find public domain cartoons at http://publicdomainmovies.net/
RuckTheFox
MemberI would add the scat tag if it wasn't already associated with something else.
Sudonim2
MemberDamn! Cab could wail!
alphamule
PrivilegedTechnically, you could add scat_(singing)?
Conry
MemberGoing back to this is like a stim shot of nostalgia.
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