(1930) The creepiest stop-motion cartoon ever: Hearts and Flowers. [4k, 60fps, colorized]

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  • @XIXbacktolife
    @XIXbacktolife  11 місяців тому +72

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    • @ludwigfan3013
      @ludwigfan3013 11 місяців тому +1

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    • @joeblow1942
      @joeblow1942 11 місяців тому +3

      Not creepy at all.

    • @drakemelee4135
      @drakemelee4135 10 місяців тому

      forgive me but was this actually old or did you make it yourself either way it looks great and felt like it would be from the 30's

    • @mikesilva3868
      @mikesilva3868 9 місяців тому +1

      ​@@joeblow1942agreed 😊

    • @scottgamble7767
      @scottgamble7767 9 місяців тому +1

      Kudos to the one (or team) that did the restoration on this. I have seen others that pale by comparison. Haveing seen the previously posted (elsewhere?) B&W, unaltered extant copy, I can say that this restored one makes it truly beautiful to watch. Excelent color choices! One wouldn't know that it was colorized without your saying so!

  • @RazorFriendly
    @RazorFriendly 11 місяців тому +1132

    I only thought it was mildly creepy. More surreal than anything. I could see this as somehow inspiring Tim Burton.

    • @Justul3ec
      @Justul3ec 11 місяців тому +14

      To be honest Tim Burton isn’t as tiny bit interesting, anything churned out by the Disney machine is a huge turn off. I love the no name and highly talented.

    • @RazorFriendly
      @RazorFriendly 11 місяців тому +42

      @@Justul3ec I'm not comparing this to Disney. I'm saying the style used here could have been an influence on Burton. Whether one finds him interesting or not is beside the point.

    • @brooklyndweller
      @brooklyndweller 11 місяців тому +14

      Agreed - for me, its quite strange in a rather incoherent way. Not so much "creepy".

    • @phillipsmith3102
      @phillipsmith3102 11 місяців тому +26

      Funny you mention Tim Burton being inspired by this. Burton was inspired by a Czech performer & director named Jan Svankmajer who did suff just like this, actually much stranger!

    • @ВидейкоИван
      @ВидейкоИван 10 місяців тому +2

      А мне очень понравился мультфильм) В детстве кукольные мультфильмы казались немного странными, а сейчас воспринимаются вполне положительно.

  • @nar2cc
    @nar2cc 11 місяців тому +624

    For those who are wondering since he did not credit, the song playing is called "Hearts and Flowers" 1899, it is not original to the video itself as the audio has been lost sadly.

    • @Bigbadwhitecracker
      @Bigbadwhitecracker 11 місяців тому +38

      Oh no, that's a shame but it works as a silent just like this!!

    • @Beefy-Cheese
      @Beefy-Cheese 11 місяців тому +10

      You mean original score? Or actual audio?

    • @nar2cc
      @nar2cc 11 місяців тому +33

      @@Beefy-Cheese When I was referring to the lost audio I meant the original score, I think you can understand why they used "Hearts & Flowers"" 1899 in the video.

    • @joshualevy3634
      @joshualevy3634 11 місяців тому +10

      I wouldn’t be surprised if the animation was created to go with the music, wintermarchen @@nar2cc

    • @drlmv9
      @drlmv9 11 місяців тому +12

      I got the musical reference. It was used quite a lot. But your mention of the lost audio suggests you know more about the original film. If you do, I'd like to know more. I'm curious about this strange little short now.

  • @Lacavadoe
    @Lacavadoe 11 місяців тому +672

    If you hate dolls this is weird but to me, this is awesome for the period it was created.

    • @jimgibbons1
      @jimgibbons1 11 місяців тому +7

      Agreed.

    • @johnmavroudis2054
      @johnmavroudis2054 11 місяців тому +15

      If you hate racism, then it's horrifying in any era.

    • @paisleybabee
      @paisleybabee 11 місяців тому +8

      @@johnmavroudis2054 I do but this is pretty mild on that. The guy on the bridge just gets bumped

    • @JoseyWales44s
      @JoseyWales44s 11 місяців тому +1

      @@johnmavroudis2054 If you see racism everywhere, you'll always be horrified.

    • @tubekulose
      @tubekulose 11 місяців тому +6

      @@johnmavroudis2054 What do you consider racist here?

  • @xjuggernaughtxx
    @xjuggernaughtxx 5 місяців тому +55

    Nowhere close to the creepiest stop-motion ever, but it was a pretty good watch. Really high-class stop motion for the era.

  • @mickeyray3793
    @mickeyray3793 9 місяців тому +17

    For some reason or other many of the cartoons of the 1920's and 1930's seem kinda "spooky" or "weird" to us today. These days toons are so much more "cutesy." 😊

    • @soonersciencenerd383
      @soonersciencenerd383 Місяць тому +3

      and it is what they had. no camcorders, special editing (that i know, seen). (they'd lose their minds if they saw our anime!!)

  • @joshuaDstarks
    @joshuaDstarks 11 місяців тому +571

    You were a sailor boy.
    She said “see you later boy”.
    You weren’t good enough for her.

    • @HadrianGuardiola
      @HadrianGuardiola 11 місяців тому +16

      😂✋

    • @johnbauman4005
      @johnbauman4005 11 місяців тому +6

      ​@@lednailsSo her name is "Brandy?"

    • @okjeffy6581
      @okjeffy6581 11 місяців тому +25

      Sk8er Boi’s if it came out in 1902.

    • @symonlynch3366
      @symonlynch3366 11 місяців тому +14

      What a good wife she would be.

    • @veganandlovingit
      @veganandlovingit 11 місяців тому +5

      @@TonyMcGurk. don't worry just a play on words from song 'sk8er boi'

  • @antoniocruz5596
    @antoniocruz5596 11 місяців тому +203

    The faces of the characters are a bit odd, but I’m impressed with the production quality of this, considering how old it is.

    • @Kipper5776
      @Kipper5776 9 місяців тому +6

      I agree 100%, stop motion is always cool😊

    • @sandramott8371
      @sandramott8371 6 місяців тому +2

      I think it’s partially the lack of eyebrows

    • @gloomyscribbles
      @gloomyscribbles 6 місяців тому +6

      The surroundings are also weirdly twisty and bendy

  • @ThatRandomFastingGuy
    @ThatRandomFastingGuy 11 місяців тому +271

    What an incredible piece of animation history.

  • @StarWolf_88
    @StarWolf_88 10 місяців тому +18

    This is really good stop motion!
    Also BRO KILLED THE MOON!!!

    • @0range984
      @0range984 5 місяців тому +2

      Rip for moon

  • @kat66meow
    @kat66meow 11 місяців тому +31

    I don’t think this is creepy at all! I think it’s pretty brilliant for being from the 1930’s. And it’s far advanced for its time! I loved it, personally!!! 🖤😻🖤🫶🏼🖤

    • @PumpkinPatchVintage
      @PumpkinPatchVintage 5 місяців тому +1

      I agree. I was impressed with how advanced the artistic imagery and themes were. I would think it would have been shocking to see a maternal figure killed and no one react.

  • @brad4231
    @brad4231 11 місяців тому +318

    Somehow the Sailor hiding in the bushes with a saxophone is the least weird part

    • @0101-s7v
      @0101-s7v 11 місяців тому +35

      Right? And that they were both peeping toms. And what's with her flexing? That was weird.

    • @goatwarrior3570
      @goatwarrior3570 9 місяців тому +16

      I mean, aren't we all just sailors hiding in the bushes with a saxophone?

    • @0101-s7v
      @0101-s7v 9 місяців тому +4

      @@goatwarrior3570 in one way or another, I reckon.

    • @xIIIQueenOfSwordsIIIx
      @xIIIQueenOfSwordsIIIx 9 місяців тому +5

      I thought it was a smoking pipe! Haha!

    • @estrellaanne1589
      @estrellaanne1589 9 місяців тому

      Bro was puppy guarding

  • @lesliemartin3
    @lesliemartin3 11 місяців тому +68

    The best thing about these old stop motion productions is that everything takes on an exaggerated pace and form so it creates a dream like atmosphere that will always come across as strange and intriguing. My absolute favorite shows and movies when I was a kid were the ones that portrayed incredibly strange themes almost to the point of being horror but containing just enough of a humorous element to keep it kid friendly.

    • @samgamyi9508
      @samgamyi9508 5 місяців тому +2

      ¿Qué programas y películas, por ejemplo?

    • @brilancaster6610
      @brilancaster6610 2 місяці тому

      That wasn't dream-like, that was a nightmare.

  • @MyPalJimbo
    @MyPalJimbo 11 місяців тому +309

    Wow!! I'm familiar with the original version, never imagined someone would clean it up and colorize it. Very cool!

    • @prof.heinous191
      @prof.heinous191 11 місяців тому +11

      Well, tell us more, or are you teasing...

    • @MyPalJimbo
      @MyPalJimbo 11 місяців тому

      @@prof.heinous191 not teasing at all, search for Hearts and Flowers 1930 on UA-cam and you'll see the original, it's in black and white and looks very beat up, time has not been too kind to it. It's the same thing as this, but this version here is all cleaned up and colored, it's amazing!

    • @drlmv9
      @drlmv9 11 місяців тому +6

      @@prof.heinous191 Just providing an echo of your comment. I'd love to hear more about the original, presuming he's not teasing.

    • @prof.heinous191
      @prof.heinous191 11 місяців тому

      Looking back, maybe he's talking about cleaning up scratches etc??@@drlmv9

    • @carblarson8868
      @carblarson8868 11 місяців тому +2

      Yes, do tell.

  • @slimtimm1
    @slimtimm1 10 місяців тому +212

    Running over the black guy fishing was just INSANE IMHO

    • @Thizzamajig
      @Thizzamajig 9 місяців тому +38

      He had it coming

    • @joelalexander4513
      @joelalexander4513 9 місяців тому +1

      lol!@@Thizzamajig

    • @tzera_rhuon
      @tzera_rhuon 8 місяців тому +19

      As a silver lining, he discovered break-dancing in the process.

    • @chibee0203
      @chibee0203 7 місяців тому +40

      Not surprised, history is telling.

    • @Aonexia
      @Aonexia 6 місяців тому +1

      Let me guess.... 😃

  • @budb.8560
    @budb.8560 11 місяців тому +12

    Imaginative but quite bizarre indeed. Pretty good work for 1930.

  • @scottreasons4746
    @scottreasons4746 11 місяців тому +90

    What's creepy is that parts of this set including the dolls could very well be locked away in a dark attic somewhere

    • @mr.atomic2970
      @mr.atomic2970 2 місяці тому +2

      Probably sadly.

    • @FrankBenlin
      @FrankBenlin Місяць тому +1

      Waiting to be discovered in Grandmas attic and then tossed by a clueless individual. Hope I find it before the truck comes by.

  • @kurtb8474
    @kurtb8474 11 місяців тому +1713

    These days people have an odd idea of what is ''creepy." I didn't think it was creepy at all.

    • @BasedRedemption
      @BasedRedemption 11 місяців тому +183

      More like uncanny

    • @joshuafredericksen5370
      @joshuafredericksen5370 11 місяців тому +135

      It's no worse than anything Tim Burton has done. I enjoy stop motion animation, and this was good.

    • @Musicmusic-777
      @Musicmusic-777 11 місяців тому +260

      Peeping on a girl getting dressed from a window isn't creepy? Dead window mom is totally charming 😂

    • @rubies200
      @rubies200 11 місяців тому +67

      ​@@Musicmusic-777Was that even a "girl", though? Those guys might have gotten a suprise ending, had things played out!

    • @hd-xc2lz
      @hd-xc2lz 11 місяців тому +96

      Agreed. Certain people today are just driven to find things to label creepy.

  • @selfproclaimedintrovert5676
    @selfproclaimedintrovert5676 11 місяців тому +134

    I feel bad for the kid when the bridge collapsed and then he was run over twice. Talk about having bad luck.

    • @sandyware5043
      @sandyware5043 8 місяців тому +7

      Same thing I was thinking.❤❤❤❤❤

    • @lordhoweproductions3733
      @lordhoweproductions3733 8 місяців тому +25

      I guess the black died first in films even in the 30s lol. I felt bad for him too

    • @arima_song
      @arima_song 6 місяців тому +10

      @@lordhoweproductions3733 her mom died first

    • @janetwestwood9194
      @janetwestwood9194 6 місяців тому +1

      🫡✌️❣️🇬🇧

    • @Hail2daking
      @Hail2daking 5 місяців тому +4

      He even tried to warn then about the bridge

  • @noahboat580
    @noahboat580 7 місяців тому +17

    The background is so surrealist, its almost like Dali done those backgrounds for this animation.

  • @jonathanlandau-litewski7405
    @jonathanlandau-litewski7405 11 місяців тому +379

    This isn't 'creepy.' I find it more endearing. Just imagine the amount of people out there, now long gone that had fond memories of this movie from their childhood. The styling is absolutely stunning.

    • @mcmlxii4419
      @mcmlxii4419 9 місяців тому +48

      Endearing? What about the woman who got her neck crushed in the window? That was endearing? What about the little boy with the fishing pole that got run over twice? That was endearing?

    • @le96g
      @le96g 8 місяців тому

      Mind you, the boy who is ran over is the only black character :> @@mcmlxii4419

    • @cndnphoenix
      @cndnphoenix 8 місяців тому +8

      @@mcmlxii4419 _Exactly_ what I was going to say!

    • @lesterjargus5311
      @lesterjargus5311 8 місяців тому +6

      @@mcmlxii4419yeah, more like hilarious. Hahaha.

    • @jec123456
      @jec123456 8 місяців тому

      @@mcmlxii4419 es arte puro, subrrealista, una obra de arte que algunos no ven mas alla

  • @stevecharman8420
    @stevecharman8420 11 місяців тому +401

    Creepy or not it's certainly bizarre. Well done for bringing it to our attention.

    • @benwherlock9869
      @benwherlock9869 11 місяців тому +12

      Bizarre or not it's certainly creepy.

    • @minermann61
      @minermann61 11 місяців тому +9

      a creepy bizarre done!

    • @onetrueslave
      @onetrueslave 11 місяців тому +7

      You guys are strange.

    • @Mhel2023
      @Mhel2023 11 місяців тому +5

      Don't forget to cancel the creaters of this cartoon on your way out😂

    • @giovanirafael
      @giovanirafael 10 місяців тому +4

      I didn't see anything bizarre 🤷🏽 it's actually pretty good!

  • @stevemarshall3481
    @stevemarshall3481 11 місяців тому +114

    I must have been quite saucy for the time, girl undressing in the bathroom, going off with one guy then changing her mind and going off with the other whilst flashing her knickers every so often 😂

    • @johnmavroudis2054
      @johnmavroudis2054 11 місяців тому +21

      Not to mention the homicide.

    • @EphemeralProductions
      @EphemeralProductions 11 місяців тому +5

      Right before the hays code I imagine.

    • @ikept_the_jethryk2421
      @ikept_the_jethryk2421 11 місяців тому

      Its in line with the times- entertainment was lewder before the government started censoring it sometime in the 30s, up till the late 60s

    • @lauralaladarling3775
      @lauralaladarling3775 9 місяців тому +15

      This is what is creepy; the boy-guy spying on a child undress with the sailor doing the same.

    • @ataridc
      @ataridc 9 місяців тому +3

      it was pretty hot

  • @christophedevos3760
    @christophedevos3760 10 місяців тому +3

    The creepiness is more a result of the sets resembling 'Das Kabinett des Dr. Caligari' - and maybe a little bit the faces of the Bellmer-like dolls, but the animation is pretty good I think, with the wind car and all, very contemporary. 😊 Thanks for sharing.

  • @LOL-BrainRot
    @LOL-BrainRot 4 місяці тому +5

    - For those who are wondering since he did not credit, the song playing is called "Hearts and Flowers 1899"
    it is not original to the video itself as the audio has been lost sadly.

    • @kevinp3550
      @kevinp3550 3 місяці тому +1

      That song and I go back over sixty years. I've always wondered what it was called. I used to mimic playing a violin and using that melody whenever my sister was whining about something. Actually, I still do! 😈

  • @carnivalgods4573
    @carnivalgods4573 11 місяців тому +34

    This is awesome. The nighttime backdrop gives shades of Corpse Bride and Jack Skellington feel before it was a thing. Good stuff.

  • @hyvemynd605
    @hyvemynd605 11 місяців тому +103

    i cant quite wrap my head around the palpable darkness behind this video...but its there and its loud as hell.

    • @trevorjameson3213
      @trevorjameson3213 9 місяців тому +34

      It's disgusting and very unpleasant to watch, almost naseating to watch. Distorted buildings, why? What is the meaning of that? Like a bad dream maybe? I don't get it. And the creepy faces, the violence, just the weirdness in general, why and to what end? If there is supposed to be a nice story in there, or humor, I'm not seeing it because I can't get past the overall 'nightmare' like vibe of it all.

    • @jandenning6992
      @jandenning6992 9 місяців тому +25

      Yes. The Asia man coming out of the ground. And repeatedly running over a black man????

    • @jandenning6992
      @jandenning6992 9 місяців тому +3

      Asian

    • @pandakat770
      @pandakat770 5 місяців тому +4

      The mom dead in the window

    • @hydorah
      @hydorah 5 місяців тому +1

      Old man shot the moon to bits

  • @Blueskies_23
    @Blueskies_23 11 місяців тому +57

    jeez, talk about some tim burton creepiness. Did the mom die? that's what i'm guessing or at least horribly injured and man, what about that lil ole black kid, he got no respect. that little girl should have stayed in her damn room.

    • @whiskeymonk4085
      @whiskeymonk4085 9 місяців тому +4

      The buhlack kid destroyed the bridge. They're still just as good as destruction today.

    • @deane5306
      @deane5306 9 місяців тому +2

      Racist🙄

    • @gimmethepinkelephant3685
      @gimmethepinkelephant3685 9 місяців тому +4

      Everyone in this thing got hurt aside from the guy with the gun. I'd say the girl got it the worst. After that balloon got shot she fell from the moon to the Earth.😂
      I don't think anyone died though. If she didn't die from a fall like that then the rest were all licking their wounds somewhere off screen...lol!

  • @LLCoolGay
    @LLCoolGay 5 місяців тому +26

    Stop motion and puppetry is truly beautiful art. It takes tremendous skill and time. For people to slap “creepy” on anything of the sort is insulting.

  • @brucelawson642
    @brucelawson642 3 місяці тому +6

    Stop action is a lot of work and demands incredible patience.

  • @DSH1LL
    @DSH1LL 11 місяців тому +56

    The most "surreal stop-motion cartoon ever" would be my moniker of choice because identifying it as creepy minimizes the craft and artistic choices that went into this. Excellent colorization, thanks for posting!

    • @pisceananarchyvortex7223
      @pisceananarchyvortex7223 9 місяців тому +2

      No... it's better clickbait this way. I wouldn't have watched it otherwise. :)

    • @pencilpauli9442
      @pencilpauli9442 4 місяці тому

      It's not the most surreal stop motion I've ever seen would be The Brothers Quay films, which are way out there.

  • @georgehenderson7783
    @georgehenderson7783 11 місяців тому +87

    This was state-of-the-art in 1930.

    • @carlosimotti3933
      @carlosimotti3933 10 місяців тому +11

      Well not really. Aesthetically and in narration, this looks more from the 1910's. Maybe the clay stop motion technique itself was kind of recent. In 1930 there were already tons of great movies far beyond the static cameras, eg Chaplin's, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich ecc and all the expressionism from the 10's and 20's, the surrealism of Bunuel and Man Ray..

    • @kaleidoscopesthirdeyevizions
      @kaleidoscopesthirdeyevizions 4 місяці тому

  • @martinmeoni8152
    @martinmeoni8152 11 місяців тому +169

    What a piece of art!

    • @FCS7
      @FCS7 11 місяців тому +7

      Really though?

    • @joeterp5615
      @joeterp5615 11 місяців тому +11

      Indeed - it really is! Incredibly creative and so well done!

    • @FCS7
      @FCS7 11 місяців тому

      It's just a bloody cartoon.
      An overtly racist one at that.

    • @johnmavroudis2054
      @johnmavroudis2054 11 місяців тому +6

      You spelled crap wrong.

    • @giovanirafael
      @giovanirafael 10 місяців тому +2

      I thought so as well! 💯

  • @FlowWolf7
    @FlowWolf7 9 місяців тому +31

    Kid tries to warn them and gets runover. How wholesome

  • @AVportau
    @AVportau 5 місяців тому +2

    1:05 the look on the guys face when he realises the sailor is there is great... the whole thing is pretty advanced for it's time.... not real hard to do today even with a basic video editor... was weird to see this in my feed but now i'm kinda glad i watched it. thanks for the upload.

  • @JR-gc8el
    @JR-gc8el 11 місяців тому +70

    If you had one of these characters as a real live doll in your home staring at you, yes you definitely will be freaked out !

  • @davidmitchell6873
    @davidmitchell6873 11 місяців тому +97

    The black kid was a victim of multiple hit and runs.

    • @sew_gal7340
      @sew_gal7340 4 місяці тому +6

      They pulled an Asian kid out of the ground by grabbing his hair...that was worse somehow

    • @misterwirez7731
      @misterwirez7731 4 місяці тому +10

      Racist cartoons were brutal in America up til the 1960's

    • @donkeyslayer9879
      @donkeyslayer9879 4 місяці тому

      The blind people who are watching this appreciate this post from Captain Obvious. No one else does.

    • @fallrookmike
      @fallrookmike 4 місяці тому

      🙄​@@misterwirez7731

    • @flowerarden
      @flowerarden 3 місяці тому +4

      They also left the girl's mom for dead, with her head stuck in the sill when the window slammed down onto her neck!

  • @Bigbadwhitecracker
    @Bigbadwhitecracker 11 місяців тому +50

    I don't think it's Creepy at all. It's like a Fleisher cartoon come to life. I like it. Creepy, disturbing and down right satanic would be the Baby Burlesque series.

    • @JohnSmith-qx8ll
      @JohnSmith-qx8ll 11 місяців тому

      Or anything from (((Hollywood))) after a certain group broke the production code

    • @Cheerfultoday
      @Cheerfultoday 10 місяців тому +2

      With Shirley Temple. This was how toddlers were exploited in the early movie days.

  • @scrumbles
    @scrumbles 4 місяці тому +3

    I thought thus was fake at first. The picture quality is amazing for near one hundred year old film. I looked it up and it's totally legit.
    I don't know how I feel about the coloration. Though at least it's quality coloration.

  • @fernando4117
    @fernando4117 11 місяців тому +6

    Wow very artistic, I feel like this has everything in it from weird to dark to happy to teamwork to comedy adventure etc.. very well put together.

    • @trevorjameson3213
      @trevorjameson3213 9 місяців тому +1

      Definitely dark, not sure about creepy though, as the title suggests. The weird, distorted shapes of the buildings and windows is disturbing and does not fit with reality, so this is like a bad dream where things are distorted. The faces of the characters are also dark and very strange, unrealistic, weird. As a result of the odd scenes, I'm not paying attention to any humor involved, not sure if it's humor or just darkness. Certainly not pleasant by any means, at least to me.

  • @MovieMakingMan
    @MovieMakingMan 10 місяців тому +2

    What an amazing film! The creator was so far ahead of his time. I used to make clay animations when I was a kid using the family 8mm camera. I modeled clay into human figures and painstakingly moved each one frame by frame. My family loved the films. This great film made me want to upload my clay animations.

  • @i-a-g-r-e-e-----f-----jo--b
    @i-a-g-r-e-e-----f-----jo--b 11 місяців тому +26

    Warner Brothers animation before Merry Melodies, thanks for the restoration! As weird as it is, I stayed for the ending!

  • @1FokkerAce
    @1FokkerAce 11 місяців тому +17

    The kid fishing and getting a bite on the bridge, and then the fish pulls down the whole bridge… 😂 That was not expected and pretty damn funny to be honest.

    • @nikhansen8775
      @nikhansen8775 9 місяців тому +2

      I mean, the sign clearly said no fishing lol

  • @TheSlegi
    @TheSlegi 11 місяців тому +50

    eeeh wouldn't say it was creepy, but surely an interesting piece of history and art to witness. Thanks for sharing :)

  • @scottgamble7767
    @scottgamble7767 9 місяців тому +1

    I'm normally opposed to modern tampering with vintage films, but I've seen this one unrestored and in B&W and I gotta admit, this reworking helps the short incredibly! The clean-up looks fantastic and the colorization is top knotch (at least it looks that way on my phone). Kudos to those who worked on this restoration/colorizing!!

  • @crazy-_-Beard
    @crazy-_-Beard 5 місяців тому +3

    This wasn’t creepy. It was interesting and very imaginative.
    Well done.

  • @richardmendoza4389
    @richardmendoza4389 11 місяців тому +45

    Creepy? Nah. Bizarre? Definitely. Yet interesting, too. Thanks for the upload

    • @kittycatmeowmeow963
      @kittycatmeowmeow963 6 місяців тому +2

      Well, I do think their faces look kinda creepy; those eyes and the way they move their mouths are really weird.

  • @JSB1882
    @JSB1882 11 місяців тому +16

    I really liked this - it's beautifully done, and the colorization added to the film too.

  • @HalfWarrior
    @HalfWarrior 11 місяців тому +35

    Amazing the amount of work in this for the time it was made. The poor kid fishing on the bridge was having a hard day.

    • @ossoduro7794
      @ossoduro7794 11 місяців тому

      The po chile on the bridge was depicted precisely because they often bring ruin and then linger and loiter on the road. They're always marching about and bellyaching for someone to come bail them out from the trouble they've caused themselves and others when really they don't matter that much.

    • @lohaye3260
      @lohaye3260 11 місяців тому +1

      I was going to say the same thing 😅

    • @tankianeville8969
      @tankianeville8969 11 місяців тому +14

      Of course he did he was black. They did that intentionally 🤷🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️

    • @ossoduro7794
      @ossoduro7794 11 місяців тому

      @@tankianeville8969 The horror!

    • @lindsayb1329
      @lindsayb1329 10 місяців тому +5

      ​​@@tankianeville8969i thought that was disturbing also and intentional

  • @Exotic3000
    @Exotic3000 3 місяці тому +3

    This is the type of Silent Cartoon where the Smashing Pumpkins got their idea for the Music Video for 1996’s Tonight, Tonight. The actual cartoon that inspired the video was called “A trip to the Moon”.

    • @amyl.7570
      @amyl.7570 3 місяці тому +1

      very keen observation! 🙌👏 very few ppl these days would realize that fact

    • @Exotic3000
      @Exotic3000 3 місяці тому +1

      @@amyl.7570 Thanks Amy! Out of curiosity, are you living in the USA or Canada?

  • @marklipson
    @marklipson 10 місяців тому

    My favourite part is the highway drive across the country. The non-scrolling background with the telephone poles is gorgeous. When they come to the boy fishing and the bridge collapses, what we see is a fever dream; insane beauty for one-hundredth of a second.

  • @-dash
    @-dash 11 місяців тому +31

    For stop motion, I feellike the original framerate would be better than AI frame interpolation.
    Upscale the frames all you want with AI, but it seems wrong to interpolate the frames

    • @slacktoryrecords4193
      @slacktoryrecords4193 11 місяців тому +3

      Totally agree. I have no idea where people got this idea that vintage motion pictures need to have their frame rates boosted to unnatural numbers, or why it’s proliferated. It’s film. Don’t try to make it look like something that was shot on a digital camera this year. Even on my iPhone, I never record videos at a frame rate of higher than 24.

    • @janetcarbone4213
      @janetcarbone4213 11 місяців тому +3

      Point well taken and while I agree the normalization of the frame movement takes away from the historical context of the film; the regular motion does make the characters more relatable. Both forms of historical film have value

  • @john-brady
    @john-brady 11 місяців тому +23

    Man what a fabulous print - whoever did the restoration did an amazingly good job of it…

  • @starvideoproduction2045
    @starvideoproduction2045 11 місяців тому +8

    Wow! This is really cool. It's kind of cute too. I like the story. Amazing work for 1930.

  • @LOL-BrainRot
    @LOL-BrainRot 4 місяці тому +1

    - You were a sailor boy.
    - She said “see you later boy”
    - You weren’t good enough for her.

  • @BOK602
    @BOK602 5 місяців тому +1

    This is the best-looking version of this antique film I've ever seen Well done!

  • @Plastic_Ivory
    @Plastic_Ivory 11 місяців тому +37

    Extremely eerie.

    • @bowieupland6112
      @bowieupland6112 11 місяців тому +1

      Hardly.

    • @Plastic_Ivory
      @Plastic_Ivory 11 місяців тому +1

      @bowieupland6112 Well, I find it very uncanny.

    • @Happyradio1234
      @Happyradio1234 9 місяців тому

      all of the people who made this are dead now

  • @gabyfields3235
    @gabyfields3235 11 місяців тому +32

    That sailor boy reminds me of that spooky sailor doll from over 100 years ago, that is supposed to be haunted and which supposedly has brought death to its owners over the years. It is somewhere in a museum.

    • @davidricobene9024
      @davidricobene9024 11 місяців тому +17

      Are you talking about Robert the Doll?

    • @MidnightAndLuna
      @MidnightAndLuna 11 місяців тому +5

      @@davidricobene9024I was just about to say the same thing.

    • @gabyfields3235
      @gabyfields3235 11 місяців тому +4

      Yes, I meant Robert the sailor doll!😮

    • @MidnightAndLuna
      @MidnightAndLuna 11 місяців тому +2

      @@gabyfields3235 it does remind me of Robert The Doll

    • @American_Gunslinger
      @American_Gunslinger 11 місяців тому +4

      Yeah, I can see where you get that.

  • @justindtackett
    @justindtackett 11 місяців тому +41

    The dolls were creepy, but the story and humor was surprising and genuinely funny. The tropes of the sailor, and Chinese coming out of the ground. Hillarious. And when she falls from the sky and he try’s to catch her but she hits the ground anyway? The the fence post being super long!!! Man. Hillarious.

    • @EphemeralProductions
      @EphemeralProductions 11 місяців тому +3

      Agreed! The first time I saw it I was cackling! lol

    • @emmytolkein3320
      @emmytolkein3320 11 місяців тому +7

      Well it did go all the way to China lol

    • @EphemeralProductions
      @EphemeralProductions 11 місяців тому +1

      @@emmytolkein3320 lol

    • @PerryPerfectPerson
      @PerryPerfectPerson 11 місяців тому +5

      @@EphemeralProductionsyou thought…but was funny that the black kid got. Ran over twice with no remorse???

    • @EphemeralProductions
      @EphemeralProductions 11 місяців тому +3

      @@PerryPerfectPerson yes. lol. I thought the WHOLE THING was funny!

  • @jamo929
    @jamo929 20 днів тому

    The music notes coming out of the exhaust as it started was just an amazing touch for the era.

  • @barrettpickett5603
    @barrettpickett5603 6 місяців тому +1

    This was really lovely. And her going down the picket fence ladder as every step disappears. And is like for a minute got to go because you are broke down. Ha, ha.

  • @Justul3ec
    @Justul3ec 11 місяців тому +25

    Wonderful well thought out example of stop motion the sets were lovely ! There is a sweetness to the old world the new generations have no idea of.

  • @untetheredmoon6971
    @untetheredmoon6971 11 місяців тому +31

    Why did he murder the moon at the end? Weird fever dream this was.

    • @sTeVe-vl3nh
      @sTeVe-vl3nh 8 місяців тому +5

      I think, because she told her dad the moon clapped her bottom after kidnapping her out of her room's window. But i don't get why he shoots her in the sky and doesn't catch her 😂 Perhaps they want some serious gun action in the end?

  • @Classic_Rock_Chick
    @Classic_Rock_Chick 11 місяців тому +35

    You weren’t kidding when you said this was creepy. This is nightmare-creepy, LOL!

    • @hd-xc2lz
      @hd-xc2lz 11 місяців тому +8

      I wouldn't call it creepy, but the girl leaving her clearly injured beau for the sailor with a car was ugly behavior.

  • @LOL-BrainRot
    @LOL-BrainRot 4 місяці тому +2

    - I only thought it was mildly creepy.
    - More surreal than anything.
    - I could see this as somehow inspiring Tim Burton.

  • @brucelawson642
    @brucelawson642 9 місяців тому +1

    AWESOME. A lot of work went into this.😊

  • @viajeIectrico
    @viajeIectrico 11 місяців тому +25

    The -creepiest- coolest stop motion cartoon ever

  • @plicketyplunk
    @plicketyplunk 11 місяців тому +44

    This is so charming and creative. I love it!❤

    • @Mister_Listener
      @Mister_Listener 11 місяців тому +1

      Agreed. But i fell asleep before it was over. So it didnt hold my attention from a storytelling perspective. Thats ok. It was fun to watch!

    • @giovanirafael
      @giovanirafael 10 місяців тому +1

      Right?! I loved it too.

  • @Lizard-88
    @Lizard-88 11 місяців тому +16

    Лица кукол очень сильно напоминают лицо главного героя мультсериала "Злобный мальчик" ("Angry Kid", 1999-2002).
    А так анимация впечатляет.
    Спасибо за реставрацию!👍

    • @sadie4479
      @sadie4479 11 місяців тому

      Omg I forgot about Angry Kid 😂

  • @pammahon3786
    @pammahon3786 10 місяців тому

    I actually am loving this cartoon! It is so far ahead of its time. I love the dolls or whatever they are made of. And the expression on their faces

  • @Morboeatspeople
    @Morboeatspeople Місяць тому

    Adventures of Mark Twain, specifically The Mysterious Stranger segment. THAT, is the creepiest stop-motion cartoon ever. This was awesome, though; thanks for posting it!

  • @uhfch2358
    @uhfch2358 11 місяців тому +9

    This is no more creepy, strange or bizarre than Guillermo del Toro’s, Pinocchio. This type of filmmaking has existed from its inception.

  • @joeterp5615
    @joeterp5615 11 місяців тому +11

    Loved this! Quite a creation for the time - or anytime! Reminds me a little of the Wallace and Gromit stop-motion which came about 60 years later!

  • @stephentresca3536
    @stephentresca3536 11 місяців тому +9

    This was not really creepy but strange. It was right after the stock market crash and three years before prohibition ended. Just two guys competing for a girls love. The love Pirate 😂

  • @ATCRyderX
    @ATCRyderX 9 місяців тому +1

    The Black Kid is pure gold. The no eye lids isn't great but otherwise: pretty normal I guess. Other than the moon. Anyone who puts a face on the moon is not welcome in my home nor should they be allowed near Children or Pets.

  • @BlueShadow777
    @BlueShadow777 3 місяці тому +60

    What was “creepy” about that??? 🤷🏻‍♂

    • @wgcds7jyg897
      @wgcds7jyg897 3 місяці тому +10

      Their eyes were creepy

    • @LaViejaLinda
      @LaViejaLinda 3 місяці тому +3

      Very creepy 😮

    • @jdpd8781
      @jdpd8781 3 місяці тому +7

      Your mom

    • @LaViejaLinda
      @LaViejaLinda 3 місяці тому

      @@jdpd8781 Yes, your poor mom 🙂

    • @cthulhuhasrisen1009
      @cthulhuhasrisen1009 3 місяці тому +2

      The eyes. Uncanny valley maybe? Creepy to me. I bet u the grandkids of the people who made this are dead it's so old.

  • @AAV29
    @AAV29 11 місяців тому +31

    I've really enjoyed discovering this channel about a month ago.
    I don't find this creepy, I think it's artistry.

  • @nigelcarren
    @nigelcarren 11 місяців тому +18

    Incredible piece of work!
    I love how the characters still have the look of the century before. ❤️🏆🎥

    • @angelapaul4064
      @angelapaul4064 11 місяців тому

      It's racist!

    • @giovanirafael
      @giovanirafael 10 місяців тому

      ​@@angelapaul4064 oh go touch some grass pls! 🙄🤡

  • @RS3DArchive
    @RS3DArchive 11 місяців тому +12

    Nothing creepy about seeing early stop-motion animation and Vitaphone. It probably looks a lot better in Black and White, but most colorized things do.

  • @Winstonchurchill-t5i
    @Winstonchurchill-t5i 2 місяці тому +1

    If it didn’t say creepy,a lot of viewers wouldn’t have pressed on the video , so in a way it was very clever to put that in the title, humans can be very inquisitive ! Greetings Portsmouth 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  • @OmegaVideoGameGod
    @OmegaVideoGameGod 4 місяці тому

    Incredible how much effort these films had and they’re still around

  • @danielbuchanan5327
    @danielbuchanan5327 11 місяців тому +5

    When the Chinese guy came out of the post hole🤣🤣🤣 (because the post was so deep it hit China)

  • @laurencegoulty3196
    @laurencegoulty3196 11 місяців тому +30

    I found it quite charming

  • @matrox
    @matrox 11 місяців тому +11

    Who else here thought after blowing the balloon up she was going to fly away and land where the black guy was and date him instead of the 2 white guys?!!🤣😂

    • @wurly164
      @wurly164 11 місяців тому +4

      Probably no one

  • @trevordickson8617
    @trevordickson8617 Місяць тому

    What a wonderful piece of stop motion animation history. Looking the best I think it ever has. Thank you.

  • @nohnohnoh
    @nohnohnoh 3 місяці тому +1

    i give it 5 / 10 on the " creepy " factor
    no blood no violence but a loot of wired creepy faces

  • @calidingoVIII
    @calidingoVIII 11 місяців тому +11

    I have no idea what people's perception of "creepy" is nowadays, but this is not creepy at all in the slightest. This is amazing!

  • @Lifesizemortal
    @Lifesizemortal 11 місяців тому +15

    I appreciate the upload but please don't interpolate old footage to 60fps it looks awful

  • @TheUluxian
    @TheUluxian 11 місяців тому +6

    A young Tim Burton saw this and said "Yeah! That's what I wanna do.."
    "..but I think I'll take it down a notch."

  • @dons.465
    @dons.465 11 місяців тому +2

    I wonder what the creator would think if he/she knew a quarter of a million people would view this almost a century after it was made.

  • @Bazonthebass
    @Bazonthebass 9 місяців тому

    It's like a cross between Robert Doll and the Memento Mori dead relatives pics. Cool!

  • @billgallaher339
    @billgallaher339 11 місяців тому +7

    Could have been done by Tim Burton's grandfather. The animation was impressive tho.

  • @SamBroadway
    @SamBroadway 11 місяців тому +24

    This is fabulous and fascinating. Is this claymation in it's very early stage or a combination of animation and claymation? I constantly seek out these early film clips because of the intimate details they seem to display. I appreciate this channel.

    • @dmann1115
      @dmann1115 11 місяців тому +10

      It's not claymation, it's stop motion with dolls, or possibly marionettes, worked without strings. Very creative.

  • @technoman9000
    @technoman9000 11 місяців тому +7

    What's creepy was the AI upscaling!

  • @Logans3Run
    @Logans3Run 10 місяців тому

    The kind of dream, that Salvador Dali, would experience time and again.
    Nice one.

  • @trevargh3432
    @trevargh3432 10 місяців тому

    I was a marionette puppeteer about ten years ago, so this is right up my alley. Thanks for the restoration, this was fun to watch.

  • @shrinebox
    @shrinebox 11 місяців тому +4

    WOW. What a double- or triple-dose of Weird THAT was! Thanks for posting it. Definitely a love story without an ending....but not in the best sense.

  • @rubies200
    @rubies200 11 місяців тому +14

    I have the feeling this was made for that era's "modern audience"! The symbolism in it, are out-of-sight!😂

  • @Colledal1995
    @Colledal1995 11 місяців тому +24

    To whoever says this is not creepy at all, it hella is as much as weird and disturbing to me. Holy those puppets designs.

    • @michaelbruvolt4221
      @michaelbruvolt4221 11 місяців тому +2

      It was not creepy for the time in which it was made. Back then they probably saw the dolls as cute

    • @HalfWarrior
      @HalfWarrior 11 місяців тому +1

      If your screen name refers to your birth year; it’s understandable that you would think this is creepy.

    • @nono-yb1po
      @nono-yb1po 11 місяців тому

      @@HalfWarrior it's also understood that you are old and about to die

    • @michaelbruvolt4221
      @michaelbruvolt4221 11 місяців тому +5

      @@nono-yb1po don't get smug. No one knows when their time is up. You could go long before someone who is much older. Don't be cocky.

    • @Colledal1995
      @Colledal1995 11 місяців тому

      @@HalfWarrior it does not 😅

  • @deidraboswell8451
    @deidraboswell8451 10 місяців тому +1

    Beautiful artwork ❤of course, 19th century means the 1800's, so this is actually early 20th century