Swing You Sinners! (1930)

[masoudfun1996]

Is there a Paramount logo at the beginning and end here?

[witefire31]

bimbo is like fuck the police around 1:50

[republicofmatt]

2:15...paranoid much?

[TeamRocket2010]

Who all think this should've been a Screen Song so we could understand the lyrics with the bouncing ball?

[EliasBlu]

Seeing how that barnyard looked, I wouldn't have ran into it anyway...

This cartoon is freaking amazing

[RussianBear5OOO]

1:08 penis

[StrikeTeam7]

81 years ago holy shit, and facelift and permanent shave are no longer threats but plastic surgery lol

[flipside1545]

creepy!!

[baxterfilms]

3:27-3:40 = Shamus Culhane animation

[pardyhardly]

I like how it starts out fairly conventional and then just devolves into total chaos. It fleshes out like a vivid nightmare and then ends abruptly as if you just woke up from a vivid melatonin dream. After you watch it and think back on it it, seems almost like your wondering if you really saw it.

[Nortekman]

I guess you got to be high to understand it.

[Shoknifeman]

Since the Fleischers and their animators were from the gritty streets of the Jewish section of NY, their cartoons tended to be a lot "earthier" and more urban than the lighthearted cartoons of the Disney bros, who hailed from Kansas farm country.

[ta2joe13]

absofreakinlutly brilliant

[sillygrl23]

This is the best "Betty Boop-related-but not featuring-Betty Boop" cartoon I have ever seen! The whole cementary scene and haunted barn scene is just crazy shit! But in a good way lol. I wish they had more cartoons like this nowadays

[Michael81818]

He was a chicken snatcher, and his guilty demons haunted him until the day he died.

[Gabrielsilesian]

Could somebody explain me why ghosts in cartoon were chasing him and by the way what they were singing about.Film has got fantastic animation but I dont understand a story

[ek180]

Party?! Huh! Ain't gonna be NO party!

HA HA HAAAAAAAA

[magnacartaable]

@ek180 Body, rather.

[KarmaXprod]

The thing I like most about this is it's happy ending.

Everything turns out well in the end. Except not at all.

[funygirl38]

wow, you have to wonder what they were thinking. Some amazing work. I love the old stuff so much more than some of the new crap. Classic animation.

[acla9000]

Delightful and ghostly!! Thanks!

[DaveDowney]

opietaylor100, I hate you. Go watch "He-Man" and masturbate.

[xeasternxz]

Great, thanks for posting.

[78timothy]

Fleischer Paramount Cartoons fromd this period (Being Pre-code) are just a little exotic w/ numerous double entendres, and reference to Opiates, marijuana etc... You should see the 1936 Paramount Betty Boop of "Garbage Man"; a song about Heroin Addiction. Somehow it passed the censors.

[PeachCreek2026]

i have absolutely no idea what the characters in this cartoon are saying even though i can understand some of them

[tomitstube]

wow, that wuz someones very long nightmare.  so what kind of drugs were they doing in 1930?

[MRKWTZ]

The wall of the cemetary closing on Bimbo, and othe scenes, reminds me of the movie "The Wall". Can give nightmare but it's a masterpiece.

[carolynan]

This is scary LOVE IT,ALSO THERE WAS A SCARY ONE ABOUT BOTTLES IN A DRUG STORE and they all came to life it sticks in my brain because it was so excellent,BUT CANT REMEMBER WHO MADE IT AS IT WAS SOOOO LONG AGO!!!

[VertNinja]

Wow! That was surreal, insane, maybe disturbing. I love it.

[mrfenderbenderman]

fuck i hope i never see this again

[cha5]

You might have an easier time with anime or Disney.

[tleilatr0nx]

radixal

[CyDaSnake]

This is when cartoons could be real strange, illogical, show a good amount of expressions, not look like crud, feature characters have a body that could be pictured from all angles easily, and when nobody cared about scaring kids. Flash was made to make cartooning easier, not cruddier and flatter than Olive Oyl under a steam roller.

[Morahman7vnNo2]

That dog must have been "Courage The Cowardly Dog's" Great Grand Father!

[sillygrl23]

@Morahman7vnNo2 I suspect this probably gave a few children back in our great great grandparents day nightmares to boost huh? lol

[rightlydivide08]

the story is a true warning to get jesus into your life; turn from your sins

[4a8p9x]

Just the kind of thing you'd expect from two Jewish fellows like the Fleischer brothers, eh?

[sanchorb]

Ah, ha, ha, haaaa...that was an ingenious reply...great.

[RockabillyLSD]

Wow!

[furbearingbrick]

...well, *I* ain't sleepin' tonight.

[cha5]

LOL I don't blame you, That bit at the very end with Bimbo being swallowed by the skull always scared the hell out of me when I first saw this toon.

[CyDaSnake]

I just saw the end bit at 12:0? AM at night, this cartoons crazy as heck but God dang I love it toward the end and end.

[swededude92]

from 05.05 starts my favorute part, it's do catchy.

[DoktorFrankenstein]

2:07 - 2:13: Banjo-Kazooie anyone?

[ds8181]

ha. nice.

[leesway]

Wow. I enjoyed that much more than I expected I would. And to think I use to believe anything in black-and white was a bore

[leesway]

Wow. I enjoyed that much more than I expected I would. And to think I use to believe anything in black-and white was a bore

[FactorySealed]

maybe the funnest and imaginative cartoon ive ever seen.

[OpiumMuseum]

Some of the ghost characters are certainly meant to be celebrities of the day, the guy with the goatee who says "Ya needed it?" at 3:30 for example. Anybody have any idea who this character is supposed to be a reference to?

[hermokrates]

It's just an stereotypical caricature representing a jewish man, notice when he appears, the Chosn-Kaleh Mazl Tov tune can be heard. This was common at that time as the afro-american, hispanic or asiatic stereotypes: Watch "Shuffle Off to Buffalo".

[Tony280Zq]

If you watch enough of these Fleischer cartoons, you'll see all kinds of examples of Jewish humor and stereotypes. The animators were mostly Jewish kids from Manhattan's lower east side, so it was natural that they would've thrown some of that in.

[kaliuzhkin]

The Jewish stereotype is the only defender of Bimbo. He stands up for the underdog. "You needed it."

Thanks for pointing out the Mazl Tov tune.

All this for a chicken!

[leannan02]

Great stuff.

[stickyjoe131]

This oldie cartoons are making a comeback. Folks for real.

[MyBoggy]

I'm personal friends with Bimbo.

[lukki7ster]

man this was trippy

[dannysquirrel]

I've always thought rubber hose cartoons were weird and interesting but this one takes the cake!

[CyDaSnake]

You mean Tubby the Tuba?

[sane1001]

delisciously dark...you have to enjoy...

[MartyRotten]

Who needs drugs when you have cartoons?

[cha5]

Also does anyone know who the musicians were in this toon and who handled the singing?

It sounds almost gospel like in influence IMHO somewhat like a dirge.

[Tony280Zq]

At 5:20, the singer sounds a lot to me like Ward Pinkett. He was an African-American trumpet player who made some recordings in New York City about this time with Bingie Madison and His Orchestra (under the name King Oliver and His Orchestra). One of the records he made with Madison was "Papa Dee Da Da", and his vocal sounds a lot like the one in this cartoon. Ward -- a fabulous trumpet player -- also played with the Joe Steele Orchestra.

[cha5]

Really? THE King Oliver? incredible, I had no idea.

[Tony280Zq]

Yeah. Oliver "fronted" Bingie Madison's band to make some of his last recordings. He was on the outs at that point, as his chops were suffering with gum disease. At the same session as "Papa Dee Da Da," Oliver recorded a searing trumpet solo on a tune called "Stop Crying." One of the other musicians at that session recalled that he had to do several takes -- his teeth hurt so bad.

[toygirafe]

I'm guessing but it sounds like the Hal Johnson Negro Choir who recorded for Victor at this same time, but i'm probably wrong.

Sing you sinners was a popular jazz song done by many orchestras though i don;t think i've heard this version before.

And King Oliver thats a great discovery.

Someone should put together a musical disography of all these films.

[cha5]

Is this a pre Betty Boop? If so which Fleischer toon was the first to have Bimbo? Out Of The Inkwell from the twenties was the first one to feature KoKo right?

[zenodoros]

Betty Boop, or at least the prototype for her already existed at the time, but she had only been invented earlier that year. I think the original Out of the Inkwell was from around 1916, in which case it'd defintiely be Kokos first appearance. Thanks for the reply!

[cha5]

Thanks for the information I'm sure Out Of The Inkwell

has to be out on DVD somewhere or likely someone has or will put it on YouTube.

[zenodoros]

I think there may be some Out of the Inkwell cartoons on dailymotion, but they're from the late twenties.

[cha5]

There's also a fair little number of Out Of The Inkwell cartoons on the Popeye DVD set Volume 1, Roughly 10 of them from 1921-1927

available as extras on the DVD set.

[cha5]

You can also find some Out Of The Inkwells

as extras on the Popeye DVD set Volume 1

from Warner Brothers,

About 10 of them from 1921-1927.

[zenodoros]

Thanks for the heads up!

[cha5]

Sure thing,

Sorry for the double post.

[GOTHMIDNIGHTMERMAID]

I guess he looks somewhat like Goofy because of the ears.

[cha5]

I can see what you mean about the ears,

Although I always thought Bimbo looked a little like Felix The Cat,

Except for his ears gloves etc LOL,

I guess he reminds me of Felix because of the surrealism of the early strips which was a bit similar to the Fleischers toons IMHO.

Which was something you would really never have gotten from the early Disney toons

on the level of the Fleischers.

[GOTHMIDNIGHTMERMAID]

On 04:24 he sort of sounds like Mickey Mouse 2. Bimbo also has some of the same facial expressions as Felix too.

[cha5]

Yeah his voice does have a similar intonation to Mickey's right there.

[GOTHMIDNIGHTMERMAID]

Was this before the 1st Betty Boop/Bimbo cartoon Dizzy Dishes?

[cha5]

This was shortly after Dizzy Dishes by a few months,

I'm really not sure

how many solo Bimbo

cartoons there might have been,

Zenodoros?

[GOTHMIDNIGHTMERMAID]

Shortly after Dizzy Dishes? :) Thank you very much again for the info cha5. Bimbo looks somewhat like the disney character Goofy a little bit doesn't he?

[sillygrl23]

@zenodoros That is a awesome old cartoon, thanks for uploading it but I have one question: Do you know who that one ghost was suppose to look like with the hat and goatee?

I figured he was suppose to be a caricature of someone but I am not sure who or what if that is possible?