"Balloon Land" (1935) Ub Iwerks ComiColor Cartoon

One of the best Iwerks color cartoons about a world of balloon people menaced by the pin cushion man. This cartoon is sort of famous for being used in the original Pee Wee Herman Show.

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Film & Animation

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• cartoon
• animated
• animation
• ub
• iwerks
• pee
• wee
• herman

[DudeL26710]

The Pin Cushion Man: the most lovable serial killer ever.

[DOYLERULES69X]

Why would a good and loving God create such a creature as the pin cushion man?

[Artary]

2:14 "Tickles me the way they rape me"?! Am I hearing that correctly?!

[GunnarMcGriff]

@SparkyMK3 And it's extremely delightful.

[SparkyMK3]

@GunnarMcGriff He's a safety pin. Its part of his design.

[Omnywrench]

@DOYLERULES69X "Good and loving god". How naive you mortals are.

[fringeelements]

I think the metaphor is pretty clear. Try to pop people's bubble, and they'll mob you and cover you with shit.

[paisleystreet]

Out of sync...

[GunnarMcGriff]

Why does the Pincushion Man have that gigantic needleboner sticking up at all time?

[DoAction]

This was after Ub left Disney studios.

You know, I took my nephews to Disney World the other day, where we went into an exhibit called Disney: One Man's dream or something like that. They mentioned a lot of Iwerks' more notable Disney cartoons such as "Plane Crazy" and "Steamboat Willy". They mention his many innovations such as multi plane dimensional animation, but never mention the man's name.

Ub Iwerks. The man behind Mickey. Most influential animator of all time.

[manwithouthat44]

-part 3 - ....but the atmosphere was so scary with shadows and the vibe was this is serious. You dont think for yourself when youre a kid, you just take wathever the vibe is. It is when youre grown up and you look back at some toon like this you think ".......actually, when you think of it. that is pretty disturbing.......for kids"

[manwithouthat44]

-part 2 - So for example when theres someone killing and torturing other people like this toon or tom and jerry but theres a happy tune in the background and the atmosphere is funny or happy, kids will be happy and funny. There were other films that disturbed as a kid, but that was more because if was very real and you could sense from the vibe/atmosphere that it was meant to be scary but there wasnt anything real cruel happening. Just one murderer and in the end he got arrested. -part 2