"Stratos Fear" (1933) Ub Iwerks

[gnikcohs]

For all the haunted house / mad scientist labs you see in vintage cartoons, you don't get many outer space adventures and this is a fine one even if Ub couldn't resist mixing in some haunted house mummies and skeletons. That dinosaur was beautifully drawn. But I would have liked to see more aliens, alien architecture, etc.

[cha5]

I just love the surrealness in these early 1930s pre hays code cartoons.

[voltaman33]

I LOVE vintage cartoons, especially ones from the 1950's and below.

[PcJaiden828]

listen to bombay bicycle club-lamplight and mute the sound to this video and watch and listen to both at the same time

[RubyCosmos]

Love the little Harpo cameo at 4:16

[stratos33fear]

OK just look at my name

[GreatBigSea1968]

Awesome! This cartoon is available on Image's DVD compilation "Cartoons That Time Forgot: The Ub Iwerks Collection."

[Nen783]

Brilliant Imagination!

[litlgrey]

Another observation, and this is one I bounced off other fans to be sure before posting here.

I am convinced the musical score is by the legendary Carl Stalling (sometimes given as Stallings), who first came to prominence as the composer of Disney's seminal "Skeleton Dance" of 1929 (the first cartoon to use the "tic" method to synchronize action to the score), then defected to Iwerks' studio, and then began his tenure at Warner Brothers in 1936, where he remained until his retirement in 1958.

[litlgrey]

Just a reminder to everyone... what you've observed is right, but this was two to three years AFTER "Bimbo's Initiation" by the Fleischers.

[GS336]

I love vintage cartoons from the 30's. They all have such a great style, and quite a few of them are very odd, surreal and bizaar. But that makes them even greater, and shows just how imaginative people of the time were.

[Edhallick]

And all those 1960`s rock stars claimed they were the first to use backwards recordings! Well here is a prime example of it being used over 30 years earlier!

[betsy1947]

Love it!!!! These vintage cartoons are REAL cartoons, not like the crud you see today.

[TOUSNESP]

One can discover elements of free masonic initiation rites.

[elquiltronegro]

Like what?

[TOUSNESP]

Novice tumbling into an unknown room, foul doors and windows, trap door, sceletons in coffins, false lady, all observing eye, checkerboard floor. Also compare Disney's Sceleton Dance, Disney's Mickey as Piano Player

[Panditha666]

all of them done by the original creator of mickey mouse Ub Iwerks!

[infrogmation]

Iwerks was experimenting with innovative technology at the time. The backwards recorded alien dialogue probably sounded even more bizzare to the audience in 1933.

Good one!

[calihawk]

Does anyone know what they actually say backwards??? Lemme know if you watched it backwards

[RMoribayashi]

There were several gibberish bits reversed, but two were English. The first (with the assistant pressing buttons) was "Yankee Doodle went to town" and the second (Talking to Willie) was "1234567" three times all spoken differently.

[bassmaster159951]

That is the collest cartoon ever!

[chanfu2]

Now this is a cartoon! I haven't seen so much great toony weirdness since Porky in Wacklyland. Willie Whopper's dentist fills him up with so much laughing gas that he floats into outer space. There he meets a whole host of bizarre aliens and has lots of freaky, surreal adventures. Iwerks really went all out on this one-----don't miss it!

[valland55]

bloody surreal! that was great.

[dholvrsn]

Loved it! Especially the Telescope Eye Guy.

Requesting "Reducing Creme" if you have it...

[huxtiblejones]

what the christ. that was awesome.

[GOTHMIDNIGHTMERMAID]

What about that unfinished cartoon (color) of Whillie Whopper on 1 of the 2 UB Iwerks cartoons that time forgot dvds? This cartoon doesn't make any sense yet these old cartoons are fun to watch & are probably worth something.

[MrBongers]

Great cartoon by Iwerk's studio .

This one seems to be another one that the stupid YouTube video player has lost the sync on . Too bad. The visuals are still interesing ,even with the sound out of sync.

[Aaronamations]

one of the craziest old cartoons Ive ever seen

[luima23]

one of the best iwerks works

[ermineviolin]

Freaky as hell. I love it.

[MurdocFox]

this cArtoon is distrubing

[mikematei]

This is one of my favorite cartoons of all time. Thank you SOOOO much for uploading it!!