Man, this must have been a fun one to make. I guess they were bored in the studio one day, and one said 'Hey! let's muck around!' Definitely one of the best H&J cartoons, and one of the best Terrytoons.
Brilliant conception. No cartoon magic wands or any other mediation, just pure thought to make the impossible world of cartoon gags happen. H&J author there own cartoon until they create a Frankenstein monster, the cop, who overpowers them. One of the few times they lose. I wonder if Poe's Power of Words had any influence here, although even Words are bypassed here. At first there are finger snaps but even that proves unnecessary. This one belongs in the Hall of Cartoon Fame.
This by the way is from Poe's POWER OF WORDS: AGATHOS. And while I thus spoke, did there not cross your mind some thought of the physical power of words? Is not every word an impulse on the air? OINOS. But why, Agathos, do you weep- and why, oh why do your wings droop as we hover above this fair star- which is the greenest and yet most terrible of all we have encountered in our flight? Its brilliant flowers look like a fairy dream- but its fierce volcanoes like the passions of a turbulent heart. AGATHOS. They are!- they are! This wild star- it is now three centuries since, with clasped hands, and with streaming eyes, at the feet of my beloved- *I spoke it- with a few passionate sentences- into birth.* Its brilliant flowers are the dearest of all unfulfilled dreams, and its raging volcanoes are the passions of the most turbulent and unhallowed of hearts.
This had the same idea that George Herriman had when he changed backgrounds,etc. in his comic strip Krazy Kat...cartoons characters can change and do anything...because they aren't really restricted by anything except their own(or their creators')thoughts.
Man, this must have been a fun one to make. I guess they were bored in the studio one day, and one said 'Hey! let's muck around!' Definitely one of the best H&J cartoons, and one of the best Terrytoons.
This is the most casual conversation I've heard about having just learned to warp reality
Ok!.. I am thinking every body become peaceful forever, with no crime !....😍😍😍😍😍
Brilliant conception. No cartoon magic wands or any other mediation, just pure thought to make the impossible world of cartoon gags happen. H&J author there own cartoon until they create a Frankenstein monster, the cop, who overpowers them. One of the few times they lose. I wonder if Poe's Power of Words had any influence here, although even Words are bypassed here. At first there are finger snaps but even that proves unnecessary. This one belongs in the Hall of Cartoon Fame.
This by the way is from Poe's POWER OF WORDS:
AGATHOS. And while I thus spoke, did there not cross your mind some thought of the physical power of words? Is not every word an impulse on the air?
OINOS. But why, Agathos, do you weep- and why, oh why do your wings droop as we hover above this fair star- which is the greenest and yet most terrible of all we have encountered in our flight? Its brilliant flowers look like a fairy dream- but its fierce volcanoes like the passions of a turbulent heart.
AGATHOS. They are!- they are! This wild star- it is now three centuries since, with clasped hands, and with streaming eyes, at the feet of my beloved- *I spoke it- with a few passionate sentences- into birth.* Its brilliant flowers are the dearest of all unfulfilled dreams, and its raging volcanoes are the passions of the most turbulent and unhallowed of hearts.
Blow me
Gosh I never thought of things that way before
Dayton Allen provides all voices.....
Well information. Good show.
This had the same idea that George Herriman had when he changed backgrounds,etc. in his comic strip Krazy Kat...cartoons characters can change and do anything...because they aren't really restricted by anything except their own(or their creators')thoughts.
the power of cartoon physics!!
#SoBrilliantAndGeniusByFar!
0:31 What are you thinking about ?
Jim Tyler makes me dizzy.