Hell's Bells

[ziggycat999]

"Betty Boop's Halloween Party" is still my favorite Halloween cartoon. This is a good second favorite.

[turkyyyyyyydark]

@xxnayxxXD

i agree i miss the old show :(

[dragonfly8756]

@xxnayxxXD god u are a pretentious fuck

[TheBuffaloTurtle]

masterpiece of animation. arguably the best animation ever.

[CheetahFoxx]

Although his heart is certainly in the right place and the concept is certainly dark enough, the execution just just doesn't seem to make it. The characters are too simple and the score, though fitting, felt flat. It feels like a playful romp through hell rather than the bottomless woe, absolute terror, and eternal damnation that the early Fleischer Brothers made in works like Snow White, Minnie the Moocher, and (most of all) Swing You Sinners.

[TheBuffaloTurtle]

you are XXXXXX demented, this is one of the best animations, ever. everything is perfect.

your criticisms are weak.

[GwynnEarl]

I hate you.

[lavender18197]

JAMES WOOD:COOL

[yohannbiimu]

4:30 - Stalling would later use this music (from Felix Mendelssohn's Fingal's Cave overture) in Chuck Jones' "Inki" series, where this music would play when an odd minah bird appeared.

[yohannbiimu]

Ooops, I almost forgot to include Ub Iwerks in the mix. His contribution to cinematic history is legendary.

[yohannbiimu]

It's amazing that Disney started out with so many people who became names themselves in the animation industry, like Carl Stalling, Huge Harman, Rudolf Ising, Isidor Freling, and Robert McKimson. The coincidence of it is almost cosmic.

[rnigma]

Many of them came from Kansas City, as Disney did. Stalling was the orchestra leader in a KC theatre.

[deborahblogtrotters]

It's so intelligent. I think it's a masterpiece of entertainment!

[TheAnimationEmpire]

1:11 - Serpent eats the bat and grows wings! =^)

- TAE

[TheAnimationEmpire]

3:18 - The jagged dance movements are awesome!

- TAE

[rnigma]

Even then, Carl Stalling worked wonders with music... I loved his adaptation here of "Funeral March of a Marionette" (aka the Alfred Hitchcock theme).

It's a lot more fun than Disney's better-known demonic effort, the Night on Bald Mountain segment of Fantasia (awesome in its own right).

[looneywoman]

Excellent from Stalling, but then I've always enjoyed that piece anyway. :)

It's *really* a shame Disney couldn't get the rights to "Dance Macabre" for "Skeleton Dance." I know he had hoped for that one, and I'm sure Stalling would have done well with that one also...

[fgvmochica50]

I agree. This one is as equally good as the "Skeleton Dance". Is kinda of a shame that Disney doesn't even try to make dark cartoons like this anymore