The Headless Horseman (1934)

[moviencartoons2]

How come there wasn't any talking in there?

[Ivanatis]

interesting adaptation

[1993joshualiu]

Brom bones laughs like Bluto.

[SirSilentSquall]

What's up with the dude eating live fish straight from the fish bowl? Is that what they did back then?

[FiendishMcEvil]

Forget about the racism and Katrina's well rounded shape, what the hell is up with Brom Bones' nose?!

[paula2673]

Isn't it a kind of prejudice thinks Katrina "big as a whale"? In the time the old story is based, fat people were so rare because of the famine that a big fat lady was a beautiful one of her kind. In 1934, people wasn't yet so obsessed about weight like today..

[physicalgrafiti12345]

I thought Katrina was supposed to be as plump as a partridge...not as big as a whale.

[imxformed]

the headless horseman is based on an irish myth called a dullahan

[scottof83]

Some of the music sounds like the same one they used for Merry Dwarfs.

[pelida77]

What an amazing cartoon!!! really funny, and the music is brilliant!!

[TLK013]

What's funny is that when I was little, I thought these black guys in these cartoons were dogs like Goofy, only with shorter ears.

As a child, i never perceived anything racist about it.

[gainsbarre13]

Ub Iwerks was Disney's original partner. Also this was made 15 years before the Disney adaptation. Just putting some junk in perspective...

[bunnywailer14]

I like this cartoonist's style more but I think the disney headless horseman cartoon is waaaaaay better...and not so blatantly racist XD

[Abracamoron]

This seems a lot like the Disney version, some slite differences

[ThePaperwing93]

they're all scared by the horseman but they don't notice the living clock

[JuSt12JiNdAwG]

We've come a long way haven't we

[dondro79]

what's with the monkeys? lol

[comprimiser]

@dondro79 there supposed to be black people lol

[rachel7036]

pretty good...havent seen this before

[farmcow10]

dis is poop!

[CarolinePar]

@peppermeek - what about the scene at the "brawl" with folks eating just about anything - fish out of bowls, off the wall???

[MWolfL]

Cool, the only Headless Horseman cartoons I've seen were the Disney one and Scooby Doo ones. I don't think Hey Arnold's "The Headless Cabbie" counts.

[Ririku4545Videos123]

Holy CROW. I was randomly clicking videos on here & came upon this video. I totally remember this from an old VHS tape I had as a kid!

[1legomaster]

whoh katrina put on a few couple pounds....

[AbrielleVonhopeless]

whoo katriana gained weight and got short lol. love it still

[denniscass]

The gingers aren't exactly glam either

[MOTHMAN225]

cartoons have been racially insensitive for a long time. And sometimes, they still re.

[rwsandne]

It was interesting that Ub Iwerks directed this animated short. He and Walt Disney were really good friends and they made lots of cartoons together. You can find his name on pretty much all the early Mickey Mouse cartoons.

[cha5]

Interesting little short, I really had no idea that there was any other animated version of The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow besides the 1949 Disney one,

Thanks for sharing it with us.

[OleAlexanderBrunaes]

This is lots of famous theme tunes (1:39, 2:33, 2:59, 3:29, 4:40, 6:13 and 6:18), can someone tell me name of them? 8D

P.S. I know the last one (8:01)... :)

[whiskeyskies]

@OleAlexanderBrunaes sounds like stephen foster?

[eigi717]

ohh... who would forget the singing bells... love it... ;)

[calideson]

Ah, the good ol' days

[OleAlexanderBrunaes]

I remember that cartoon, thank for uploading! :)

[richysst]

just love the classic cartoons .

[Blakefe]

katrinas put on a few pounds

[rsynth75]

big women were the vogue then...

[TheHuan2000]

@Blakefe thats prolly cuz shes got two men force feeding her cake and ice cream

[F1315NJ]

@Blakefe Well, you know what they say, "the bigger the cushion, the sweeter the..." well you know.

[athull08]

@Blakefe the book describes her as "as plump as a partridge"

[skinnerburgers]

tee hee hee "Icky"

[killachris8889]

hey if anyone has old holiday tv show's and special's with the tv add's that came with it i'm willing to buy

[dormi87]

When I was young, my late grandpa gave me a video with lots of old cartoons on it. This featured, along with Felix the Cat/Old King Cole and Little Black Sambo - I now realise they must have been made by the same company as the animations and music are all quite similar. I can't remember any of the other cartoons on the video, but it was a real joy to watch this after all these years!! Thank you for sharing :)

Just out of interest, does know or own the video?

[Titchbert]

yea i haft the same tape

there was also the cossacks and aladin n sum other ones too

these bring back memories

[SaucyAnon]

Haha! I remember watching this when I was kid! :)

[developtis]

8:02 :)

[SergiusMax]

dude these shows are kool but they`re getting so old that you can`t actually see it

[baxterfilms]

1:14-1:26 sounds similiar that what Stalling used in such WB cartoons like Rabbit Seasoning.

[drvanthorp]

Does anyone know of another Headless horsemant cartoon, probably pre-war era, that isn't this one and isn't the Disney version? I saw it about 25 years ago on a worn 16mm print, and it had a very inventive chase sequence.

[celluloidjunkie13]

Its been nearly a year since you posted this question- any chance you ever located or found more info on the 16mm print in question? I would love to obtain it

[CoasterChick22]

ub iwerks worked with disney whent ehyf irst started out

[villeppi]

Thanks for uploading this!!!!!!!!! Brings back memories!

[ConstantineChernabog]

man, there are a lot of similarities between these corny one and the magnificent version in the disney film.

[F1315NJ]

meh, it was ok. though i prefer Night of the Headless Horseman, and Disneys version

[pearblossom80]

is this Disney?

[F1315NJ]

not really

[deadlyshoesalesman]

I would have liked more of the headless horseman sequence. Oh, well: we do have a great animated version of the story from Disney. (Ub Iwerks is credited for "special processes" on that 1949 film.)