Disney - Tommy Tucker's Tooth (1922)

The rare Laugh-O-Grams short.

I thought I'd make this upload since nobody else has.

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[nitrateglow]

LOL acid demons at 3:00. Really cute curio from early in Walt Disney's career! Thanks for the upload. :)

[Tim Hansen]

Disney's Laugh-O-Gram studio was more or less bankrupt when a dentist was willing to pay 500 dollars for this short. Walt invested the money in the Alice pilot "Alice's Wonderland". Thanks to this pilot, Margaret Winkler was willing to take a chance on him and his Alice comedies, and one thing lead to the other. So it's safe to say that this is one of the most important films Disney ever made.

[gnikcohs]

Glad to see this historically important film which temporarily saved Disney's first studio from bankruptcy.

And that kid really does look like Lon Chaney at 7:40. I wonder why they used the heavy eye shadow. It makes him look grotesque.

Maybe the somewhat eerie look of the giant white modeled teeth, isolated against a black background was a foretaste of things to come from Ub Iwerks.

[Kira1Lawliet]

Good point, but there's still the thought.

[DoctorHver]

Not exactly Since liking was made in 1994, this was made in 1922. So Everone involved in this were eather dead or retired at time of production of Lion King.

[ESLinstructor1]

4:23 It looks to me that Jimmy is just the right weight for his size while Tommy is obviously a bit overweight.

[Kira1Lawliet]

Geez, that kid looks like Lon Chaney!

P.S. brought to you by the people that made THE FUCKING LION KING!

[Ray Pointer]

Not quite it. But in silent films, representative images were used to communicate ideas and "propaganda." Many times exaggeration was used to make the point. It was a combination of entertainment and message. "Scare tactics" were not necessarily the intension.

[njnproductioninc2011]

was this meant to scare kids into brushing? jimmy looks in real pain during the toothache part. sheesh that tooth was totally gone

[njnproductioninc2011]

lol i love their cute little hats as they skip to school, much more stylish than today's duckbilled hats.