The phable of a busted romance (1916)

Max und Moritz

Thanks to Noelle for the link.

The Tale of the Fox - Wladyslaw Starewicz (1930) Part 1/6

(Thanks to Noelle for the link).

More Early Animation

The Enchanted Drawing (1900) James Stuart Blackton.



Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906) James Stuart Blackton.



Fantasmagorie (1908) Emile Cohl



The Hasher's Delirium (1910) Emile Cohl

Windsor McKay

A movie by the comics and animation pioneer. 1911!!

(Via the Forbidden Planet blog and Comics Reporter).

In My Merry Oldsmobile - Fleischer Brothers

An awesome old commercial!

(Thanks again to Noelle for the link!)

Charley Bowers 3

(Thanks AGAIN to Noelle for the link!)

More Charley Bowers

I'd never heard of this guy 'til yesterday.
(Thanks again to Noelle for the link!)

Metal Eating Bird

The last few minutes from Charley Bower's 1930 live action/animation classic "It's A Bird".

(Thanks, Noelle).

Jiri Trnka : The Chimney Sweep

Watch it here.

(Thanks Noelle).

Bimbo's Initiation

Fleischer Brothers, 1931.

Les pieds nickelés, le film (1917-1919)

"Adaptation par Emile Cohl et Benjamin Rabier de la célèbre série de bande dessinée créée par Louis Forton." (I think that's saying it's an adaption of a comic by Louis Forton)

"The Tale of the Fox" - Ladislas Starevitch

Perhaps the most beautiful stop motion animation ever made : "Le Roman de Renard" ("The Tale of the Fox") by Ladislas Starevitch, a Russian living in France after the Soviet revolution.
Although most of the film was made in Paris from 1929-1931, Ladislas, with his wife and daughter, continued to work on it for years, waiting for sound in the cinema so they could make a soundtrack. It was finally released in Berlin in 1937 and in France in 1941.

Betty Boop - Snow White (1933)

The Peanut Vendor

Len Lye, 1933.

Betty Boop

BETTY BOOP'S UPS AND DOWNS
Fleischer Bros, 1932.

A Krazy Kat cartoon from.... 1916!

Krazy Kat And Ignatz Mouse At The Circus
George Herriman / Leon Searl (1916)



And here's an extract from a 1930's Krazy Kat (apparently... you can only tell it's Krazy by his/her bow). The sound has been redone, or messed around with, giving the cartoon a nightmarish quality.



This is the title sequence from Gene Deitch's Krazy Kat cartoons that were made in the early sixties. The usually androgynous Krazy is now female!



And then there's this... Is there a Krazy Kat movie on the way??

A Night in a Harem

By Lotte Reiniger.
Part 1:

Part 2: