Product Details

• Format: Animated, Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Shout Factory
• DVD Release Date: January 20, 2004
• Run Time: 117 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000YTPGG
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #144,815 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

This collection of vintage cartoons is not only a loopy primer on animation history; it is also an offbeat reflection of western "civilization" in the early 20th century. The racism in "Little Black Sambo," and the overt sexuality of Betty Boop are all-the-more shocking when you think that this is what grandma and grandpa were growing up watching!

From the works of the world’s very first animator, Emile Cohl, to Walt Disney himself, Johnny Legend has compiled a twisted list of early animations that are guaranteed to surprise, delight and amaze.

Program Listing
1. Alice’s Eggplant - Walt Disney (1914)
2. Frogland - Wladyslaw Starewicz - Russian Art Society of Paris (1922)
3. Alice The Toreador - Walt Disney (1914)
4. Hold Anything - Isadore Freleng & Norm Blackburn (1930)
5. Betty Boop’s Crazy Inventions - Max Fleischer (1932)
6. Inki & The Minah Bird - Merrie Melodies (1945)
7. Betty Boop in Crazy Town – Max Fleischer (1932)
8. Little Black Sambo by U.B. Iwerks (1935)
9. In A Cartoon Studio Jungle Jinks (1931)
10. It’s A Bird Charley Bowers in a Lowell Thomas Tall Story (1930)
11. Intermissions (vintage movies theatre intermissions)
12. Non-Stop Fright - Felix the Cat (1927)
13. Scrap Happy Daffy – Daffy Duck (1943) BR> 14. Scrub Me Mamma With A Boogie Beat - Walter Lanz (1941)
15. Hasher’s Delirium – Emile Cohl (1910)
16. Small Fry – Max Fleischer (1939)
17. The Devil’s Ball – Wladyslaw Starewicz (1934)
18. Cobweb Hotel – Max Fleischer (1936)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Define weird, April 25, 2004

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Steven Hellerstedt "SH" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Johnny Legend Presents: The Complete Weird Cartoons (DVD)

Well, it ain't complete and most of `em ain't weird, but THE COMPLETE WEIRD CARTOONS is fun. In fact, the only thematic glue here is the age of this collection - none were made later than 1945.
Still, there are a few gems and semi-precious stones here. There are two very early Walt Disney cartoons, "Alice's Eggplant" and "Alice the Toreador." They're a charming combination of live action and black-and-white animation. Alice was a young girl who was featured in a number of Disney's early works.
There are a few I suppose you could call weird. Charle's Bowers' "It's a Bird" and Wladyslaw Starewicz's "Frogland" and "The Devil's Ball" both employ stop-action animation rather than the usual pen-and-ink stuff. Starewicz's stuff defies brief description, Bower's "It's a Bird" is a live action/animation combo about a man who discovers a metal eating bird. If they wanted to include a really weird Betty Boop they could have done better than "Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions." They could have used "Snow White" (the Betty Boop one with Cab Calloway), or "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You," which features live-action cut-ins of a very young Louis Armstrong.
There are a few here you'll never see on Saturday morning, cut for their racist content. Ub Iwerks "Little Black Sambo" and Chuck Jone's "Inki & the Minah Bird" seem fairly tame even by today's standards. Walter Lanz's "Scrub Me Mama With a Boogie Beat," on the other hand, is pretty bad. Jone's Inki seems no more a stereotype of a black male than Elmer Fudd is a stereotype of a white male. "Scrub Me..." will take your breath away with its overt racism.
In all, this is a fun and interesting collection. These are NOT cartoons you'll want to plunk your unattended children in front of, though.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Weird cartoons, December 22, 2005

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Salvador Fortuny Miró "Salvador" (Tarragona , Spain) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Johnny Legend Presents: The Complete Weird Cartoons (DVD)

This DVD includes all the stuff that was previously edited in the two VHS tapes. This is: " Hasher's delirium " ( 1910 ), a one minute silent cartoon by french cartoon pioneer Emil Cohl; four surreal pieces from Fleischers' studio : " Betty Boop's crazy inventions " ( 1932 ), " Crazy town " ( 1932 ), these both starring Betty Boop, and the colour cartoons " Cobwell hotel " ( 1936 ) and " Small fry " ( 1939 ), all of them directed by Dave Fleischer and produced by his brother Max; one of the gems of the compilation: " Scrap happy Daffy ", a black & white Daffy Duck's cartoon from the Second World War period by Frank Tashlin, who would later direct Jerry Lewis in some of his finest movies; an early cartoon of Chuck Jones titled "Inki and the Minah bird " ; two other gems, two examples of russian puppet-animator Ladislaw Starewicz: " Frogland " ( 1923 ), an excellent adaptation of La Fontaine's famous fable and an excerpt from "Fetiche" ( 1923 ), collected here as " Devil's ball ", about a puppet dog who descends to hell while it's trying to recover its toy-ball; Charley Bowers' first talkie " It's a bird " ( 1930 ), a bizarre stop-motion masterwork; Pat Sullivan's " Felix the cat in Non-stop fright " ( 1929 ); " In a cartoon studio" ( 1931 ) from Van Beuren studio; two Walt Disney's cartoons from Alice series: " Alice toreador " and " Alice's eggplant ", produced for his first studio in Kansas City ; Walter Lantz's " Scrub me mamma with a boogie beat "; Ub Iwerks colour cartoon " Little black Sambo " ( 1936 ); " Hold anything " ( 1930 ), starring Bosko and animated by Isadore Freleng; and various bizarre vintage cartoon commercials .

Not all the prints are of the same quality, but the compilation is very recommendable.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Decent Collection of Weird Classics, February 28, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Johnny Legend Presents: The Complete Weird Cartoons (DVD)

This is a DVD release of two old compilations originally released by Rhino. It's an interesting collection to say the least. The most interesting shorts on this disc include "Scrub Me Mama With A Boogie Beat" a cartoon filled with racist stereotypes from Walter Lantz (Woody Woodpecker), "Inki and The Minah Bird" from Chuck Jones (Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry) and extremely strange "It's A Bird". The biggest complaint is the prints used are horrible and vary from Good to Down-right Poor. Also of note not all openings are cut but most of the closings are gone. Mildly Recommended.